Best Patio Container Plants

It makes a perfect fast growing screen for privacy.

Best patio container plants.

Like most heavy flowering plants cinerama should be deadheaded and fertilized regularly. Baby cakes offers up large tasty blackberries in summer and may produce an encore crop later in the season in some climates. Tall and wide is perfect for patio pots. 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. These are the best container plants. Its compact habit maturing at 3 4 ft. But some plants are born to shine just a bit brighter.

New ever bearing strawberry varieties sport little jewels of berries that sparkle on mounds of greenery. Well baby cakes is a dwarf blackberry without thorns. To a gardener all plants are stars. Plus keeping them up high protects them from your garden s resident chipmunks and other rodents.

It is hardy in zones 4 8. 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. Plant them in hanging baskets or in pots on tall plant stands to showcase their beauty. 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.

Plants like constant moisture and fare better in partial sun than strong afternoon sun which can bleach the leaves. This mounding plant can be planted on its own or with a spiller plant like creeping jenny or sutera. Partner with spring bulbs for a dash of colour. 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.