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Recipes
And Designs For Plantings -
A
few ideas to give you a head-start on a beautiful planter
Here are a few
suggestions for good container planting combinations.
SPRING:
Hellebores, with tulips and ferns. When bulbs die down replace with
pink impatiens.
BEGONIAS:
Mix rex begonias with their colorful foliage with tuberous camellia-flowered
begonias in colors to blend with the rex leaves.
SILVER:
Helichrysum petiolare (licorice plant) trailing under annual dusty
miller. Add pale pink or red geraniums depending on the effect you
want. Or try it with purple heliotrope.
SHADE
GARDEN:
Trailing ivy and ferns with nicotiana, impatiens or pansies.
FOLIAGE:
Palace Purple heuchera with Bowles Golden sedge and Margarita' sweet
potato vine
SUCCULENTS:
Sedum `Vera Jamieson' and `Bertram Anderson' with Sedum sieboldiana.
BLUE
AND YELLOW:
Yellow daylilies (Penny's Worth, Stella d'Oro) with Campanula carpatica
`Blue Clips'.
PINK
AND PRETTY:
New Guinea impatiens (bright pink flowers) and pale pink verbena
and pink zonal geraniums.
DRAMATIC:
Black Dragon coleus with Ipomoea batatas `Blackie' and Helichrysum
petiolare `Aurea'.
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