Best Patio Container Plants

New ever bearing strawberry varieties sport little jewels of berries that sparkle on mounds of greenery.

Best patio container plants.

This mounding plant can be planted on its own or with a spiller plant like creeping jenny or sutera. It makes a perfect fast growing screen for privacy. To a gardener all plants are stars. Maybe they have plentiful flowers colorful foliage or graceful trailing stems.

Plant them in hanging baskets or in pots on tall plant stands to showcase their beauty. 10 plants for pots and containers clematis some clematisare suitable for growing in containers. Plus keeping them up high protects them from your garden s resident chipmunks and other rodents. 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.

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. These are the best container plants. Tall and wide is perfect for patio pots. Plants like constant moisture and fare better in partial sun than strong afternoon sun which can bleach the leaves.

Well baby cakes is a dwarf blackberry without thorns. Baby cakes offers up large tasty blackberries in summer and may produce an encore crop later in the season in some climates. This tropical sunrise calibrachoa makes for a perfect container plant. 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.

Evergreen clematis is often sold tied to an upright stake but its trailing habit makes it perfect for the edge of a container. Strawberries need full sun. 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. Like most heavy flowering plants cinerama should be deadheaded and fertilized regularly.

Its compact habit maturing at 3 4 ft.