Monarch butterflies flock around a container planted with ‘Confetti’ bush lantana (Lantana camara ‘Confetti’, zones 9 to 11). Flowering plants that attract butterflies and are perfect for a container garden include: • Alyssum (Lobularia maritima, all zones) • Aster (Symphyotrichum spp.) • Beebalm (Monarda spp.) • Daylily (Hemerocallis spp.) • Lantana (Lantana spp.) • Lavender (Lavendula spp.) • Milkweed (Asclepias spp.) • Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea, zones 3 to 9) • Salvia (Salvia spp.) • Verbena (Verbena spp.)
Hummingbird and butterflies attracted to: Mexican bush sage (not shown) and Here, a group of containers filled with ‘Katie’ ruellia (Ruellia brittoniana ‘Katie’, zones 8 to 10), red salvia (Salvia splendens, zones 10 to 11), ‘Victoria Blue’ salvia (Salvia farinacea ‘Victoria Blue’, zones 8 to 10) and red verbena (Glandularia sp.) beckon flying visitors.
Creeping Jenny is the spiller here, invasive, so keep-in container
Coleus and pink grass with sweet potato vine look great
Monrovia: “colorful foliage and look great nearly year round months. Here Purple Pixie® Fringe Flower and Gulf Stream Heavenly Bamboo (nandina) play to the purple side of fall, abetted by Fireworks Fountain Grass and Alabama Sunset coleus. Now, the coleus will, of course not make the winter (when it comes out, slip in cut branches in cold zones, and bedding plants like cyclamen), but the other plants should look pretty
Monrovia: These plants (Evercolor® EverOro Sedge, Rainbow Drooping Fetterbush, Creeping Wire Vine, Thunderbird Evergreen Huckleberry) are for more temperate zones, but steal the idea. In colder zones, use a Japanese maple and Charming Fantasy™ Snowberry instead. Spiller is: Creeping Wire Vine that also makes good ground cover
Use hanging plants as privacy screen: pentas and caladiums
Monrovia: front of garage: Ingredients: Sundowner New Zealand Flax or cordyline Silver Falls Dichondra or silver thyme or lambs ear, Afterglow Echeveria
Fall - ornamental cabbage and kale
Would make great shade pot: variegated liriope, variegated Ivy, oxalis, could add white caladiums/elephant ears
Shade basket: variegated Ivy, sweet potato and pentas
Safe in container: variegated liriope, oxalis, cordyline, sweet potato
Cordyline and trailing ivy
Cordyline Electric Pink zone 9 - 11, partial sun
Aeonium
Aeonium “Alice keck park” w/ sedum Angelica
Good plants for garage columns
Pots for garage columns
Containers can produce significant amounts of edibles. This photo shows an entire kitchen garden, including both perennial and annual herbs, lettuce and pot-greens, beans and peas, broccoli, carrots and tomatoes, all in containers. Look for varieties of edible plants specifically bred for containers, including squashes, tomatoes and others that normally need larger spaces.
Pancake plant
The plant on the table is a sansevieria, a go-to houseplant for Nolan. “My own home and clients’ projects almost always contain one or a dozen kinds of Sansevieria. They’re just the easiest — you can leave for a month and come home to a still-living plant,” he says. Low light and low water needs
Star Jasmine, won’t survive our winters so it is a great climbing potted plants for the patio that just needs to be taken in during the winter
Plants include: • Canna • Dusty miller (Senecio cineraria, zones 8 to 10) • Ornamental cabbage • Ornamental peppers (Capsicum annuum) • Persian shield (Strobilanthes dyerianus, zones 9 to 11) • Sedge (Carex sp.)
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