Learn how to arrange garden containers with tips, tricks and TRIED and TRUE techniques. You’ll learn design and planting methods that will create a beautiful show you’ll enjoy all summer long!
Recently I hosted a workshop at charming Parkview Gardens in partnership with my friends at Wave Petunias with local colleagues – aka bloggers.
It was fun getting to know fresh faces and seeing a few familiar friends, all over eats, drinks and beautiful blooms.
We learned how to arrange garden containers – admittedly, it’s a task that has always overwhelmed me in the past.
Claire Josephson, a resident expert hailing from England, shared tips and tricks to designing beautiful garden containers that will live all summer long! I’m excited to share them with you today!
I love garden containers, especially for our porch, patio and between garage stalls, but I never knew how to arrange them.
In the past, I would tend to throw a few things in my pots that would inevitably die just weeks later. Little did I know these fun tips for garden containers.
How to Arrange Garden Containers
- start with a container with holes for drainage
- you should fill with soil 2″ from the top
- add soil to fill in after you add your flowers / plants
- always water immediately after planting
It was fun to see how we were all offered the same planters and flowers, but all created something unique from Claire Josephson’s tips. A variety of plants create the most beautiful garden containers. Choose from a few of these:
- a plant that will offer height like angelonia, geraniums, coreopsis, or grasses in the back or the center
- Wave Petunias which grow out, filling the pot and providing color
- fillers like pentas
- plants that trail out like lobelia, silver dichondra {which I used}, or alisons
My flower recipe included Petunias, and silver dichondra trailing out of the pot. I used the height in the back, petunias and filler in the middle and dichondra in the front since it will be against a wall on our porch. I created mine in just five minutes!
Who knew garden containers could be so quick and easy? You can find several more container recipes here to get you started. If you make one, tag me on Instagram, I’d love to see!
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Creating mixed flower pots is one of my favorite things! Great post!!
I love all the mixed pots. I’m going to try my hand at some this weekend. You all make it look easy!
I hope you enjoyed a beautiful holiday weekend!
So lovely, Julie!!! I’m taking notes so I can have pretty container gardens, too!
Love all things flowers and I love container gardening.
Beautiful! I love how creative and unique each pot can be. Great tips, thanks for sharing!
Great tips! I wrote a few weeks ago, regarding your beautiful deck. You mentioned you hose it off to clean. What type of rug do I buy that could be hosed off? Thank you.
You should be able to click shop on my site to find it, but any indoor outdoor rug can be hosed off. My favorite are from Dash and Albert. Have a beautiful weekend!
What pretty pots! Such great tips- those petunias are my very favorites, they really do bloom ALL summer!
And who knew it was so quick and easy to create a pot? My love for flowers continues to grow!
Wave petunias are classically beautiful! Thanks for the planting tips too! I’m hoping to get a few containers planted this weekend.
xo Michael
Aren’t they though? The tips made all the difference. Thanks, friend!