Plant combinations for containers: examples of successful solutions

Color, texture and height - these are the three things that use landscape designers for making compositions of plants in containers. Designer Nick McCullough invites us to work with these three components and see what happens.

The use of containers and pots for gardening is a good opportunity to experiment with unexpected combinations and varieties of plants. In most regions of our compositions in containers of these plants have to be grown indoors (A common option among gardeners FORUMHOUSE: winter plants live in an apartment, the summer move to garden).

By selecting plants for planting in a container, hold their color, size and texture equal characteristics. Excellent composition can be composed of a limited number of plants in a container (three to six), and it is important to pay attention to their ability to dispense small amounts of water. Plants in this composition can not boast vivid colors, but the designer played on the contrast of textures and interesting results.

Here are some of the plants, the composition comprises: sporobol (kaplesemennik) spreading, Kalanchoe metelchatotsvetkovoe, thyme limonnopahnuschy, Echeveria "Lola", mossy Crassula (Crassula).

The container here - a common trough with the farm, and its shape dictates the organic style of composition: drought-resistant grasses and succulents that grow deep in the soil and are irrigated by natural rainwater.

This composition is collected from Nicholas strelitzias, Coleus hybrid, Ipomoea batata petiolar and everlasting. This, of course, the plants of the southern regions. Designer house six months, the ivy, the composition in the container on the background wall of ivy should not be overloaded with green and came. Four plants in four different shapes of leaves and flowers very nice on a green background, each - their own way.

A combination of three plants (Dihondra silver "Silver Falls", Tradescantia pale and sansevieriya) creates an interesting alternation of colors. Wide bottom band -serebryanaya, bottom of the container fills Tradescantia, and finally rises sansevieriya wall height of almost one meter. Large white container merges with the white wall behind and eliminates any visual competition with regard to plants.

All the plants that used the American designer to create their own compositions, are cultivated growers of our portal with success. You can learn how to grow Ipomoea batata, sansevieriya,Crassula and other plants, to join the discussion on FORUMHOUSE. And taking over the experience of the best gardeners, who are devoted to our videos, you can even grow anything, even grapes in Siberia.

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