Container Gardens
The container gardens near the garden shed includes three window boxes, a trellis behind the shed and two planters by the arbor leading to the Fairest Garden by the Home Landscape Display. Each summer the container gardens feature a mixture of ornamental grasses, new annual flower varieties and colorful plants such as coleus to show the beauty these mixtures of plants can bring.
For planters that pop, use the design concept of thriller, filler, spiller: start with a tall, colorful plant in the back or center for the “thriller”, then choose vines or other trailing plants to spill over the edge, and finish with blooms that fill in the remaining space.
In 2024, the window box planters feature trailing plants, a beautiful geranium and calming soft Rush spike grass. The round planters near the arbor feature an interesting combination of drama including black and blue salvia, that hummingbirds love to visit and purple elephant ears along with colorful geraniums and silvery helichrysum for color balance.
A Hyacinth bean vine (Lablab purpurea) climbs the trellis on the back of the garden shed. This vine is an annual and provides interesting stem and leaf color along with beautiful purple/white flowers that attract butterflies and hummingbirds. The vine will eventually have purple seed pods which can be eaten and prepared similar to peas or green beans. This plant is an annual and can grow between 12 and 15 feet each summer.
Plant list
Entrance arbor containers
A Black and blue purple salvia – Salvia Guaranitica
B Colocasia – royal Hawaiian Aloha elephant ears
C Euphorbia – hip-hop hybrid
D Dahlia – dalaya – fireball hybrid
E Persian shield – Strobilanthes Dyeriaus
F Helichrysum – Petiolare
G Calibrachoa – calitastic pumpkin spice hybrid
Side window boxes
H Calibrachoa – deep yellow hybrid
I Geranium – orange
J Colorgrass blue arrows Juncus
K Lantana – camera
L Dorothenathus – mezoo
Front window boxes
M Calibrachoa – cabaret diva orange hybrid
N Calibrachoa – deep yellow hybrid
O Geranium – Orange
P Colorgrass blue arrows Juncus
Q Lantana – camera
Shed trellis
R Purple Hyancinth bean vine – dolichos lablab
S French marigold – tagetes patula
Garden map
