As work on the garden expansion continues, I decided today would be a good day to get all my containers planted.
True to form, I did purples and pinks across the board.
Like last year, I put in a few perennials, which I plan to plant in my flowerbeds come fall.
Here's what we've got:
#1: Tall & Skinny Blue Pot
This is all herbs this year.
I've got a pineapple sage (just for fun), plus one sweet basil and one purple basil 'Amethyst Improved.' I wanted rosemary, too, but have yet to find it for sale.
#2: Dark Blue Pot
Carpathian Bellflower (Campanula carpatica) in the middle, with 3 wave petunias spaced around it. Yes, it looks a little strange right now, but soon those petunias will start billowing, and I wanted something tall enough to still be seen over the petunias.
The bellflower will go in my front flowerbed this fall.
I already have the perfect spot picked out!
#3: Round blue pot
Loaded with pinks this time--literally!
Every year a dianthus practically leaps into my cart. This was the one!
Also in this one, 1 wave petunia in purple, light pink calibrachoa, and a few deep pink stems of stock. I'm hoping once the dianthus is done with its main blooming, the rest will keep it going through the summer.
#4: Gray-Green Pot
These are "Regal" geraniums. They were each going to go in a separate container, but as the name might suggest, they did not play well with others. At least not the others I already had purchased. The pink has some deep red undertones that clashed with my other pink stuff, once I brought it home.
So they got their very own container, with only a few white lobelia on either side to share it with.
I hope Their Majesties are satisfied, and keep giving me those gorgeous blossoms all summer.
#5: Green Pot
The tall plants sticking up are Snapdragons, 'Rocket Mix'. I have never tried snapdragons in a container before--or at all, actually. So I have no idea how this will go.
Also in there: white stock, deep pink & yellow calibrachoa, pink petunia.
I don't love it, but we'll see how it looks when things start to fill in a little more.
#6: Blue Boat
Last, but certainly not least, is the succulent boat.
No petunias this time to steal the show!
Clockwise from top left:
Blue Chalk Fingers 'Serpents' (Senecio vitalis). The tag says it produces white flower clusters and it's actually supposed to grow 12-18" high.
Jade 'Hobbit' (crassula ovate)
Zebra plant (Haworthia fasciata) This one is my favorite!
Hens & chicks, which survived the winter in my back flowerbed.
Senecio 'Blazin' Glory' (Senecio cephalophorus) Supposed to have bright orange blooms
Aeonium 'Tip Top' (Aeonium arborescens)
I may move them a little closer together and put a couple others in there, as well.
And yes, I am planning to bring most of them inside this fall.
Do I really have SIX containers?
It's more than I thought, but still doesn't seem like enough!