Best Patio Container Plants

Well baby cakes is a dwarf blackberry without thorns.

Best patio container plants.

Although it can be a fast spreading menace when grown in the ground bamboo is a dramatic specimen plant when grown in a large container where it can t escape. To a gardener all plants are stars. While petunias and marigolds are reliable old standbys in pots consider these other colorful plants and newer varieties that offer long lasting beauty in any container. These are the best container plants.

Plus keeping them up high protects them from your garden s resident chipmunks and other rodents. Like most heavy flowering plants cinerama should be deadheaded and fertilized regularly. Strawberries need full sun. Baby cakes offers up large tasty blackberries in summer and may produce an encore crop later in the season in some climates.

Plant them in hanging baskets or in pots on tall plant stands to showcase their beauty. New ever bearing strawberry varieties sport little jewels of berries that sparkle on mounds of greenery. It makes a perfect fast growing screen for privacy. Tall and wide is perfect for patio pots.

Its compact habit maturing at 3 4 ft. But some plants are born to shine just a bit brighter. Creeping jenny lysimachia nummularia also known as moneywort is the perfect patio plant for container edging ground covers hanging baskets or anywhere you want a splash of chartreuse foliage. Maybe they have plentiful flowers colorful foliage or graceful trailing stems.

Evergreen clematis is often sold tied to an upright stake but its trailing habit makes it perfect for the edge of a container. It is hardy in zones 4 8. If you are growing cineraria in a container choose a large pot with plenty of good moisture retaining potting soil and locate the pot in partial shade. Partner with spring bulbs for a dash of colour.

10 plants for pots and containers clematis some clematisare suitable for growing in containers.