by Ashley Cotter-Cairns
(Container Gardening For You)
Container Flower Gardening Ideas: Cordyline, Gazania, Verbena, Salvia, Vinca Minor, Calibrachoa
If
you love color, then this display is perfect for you! It's like a little land mine of flowers that explodes with
pretty hues.
Starting with Cordyline, the "haircut" of your display. This spiky,
palm-like plant gives a dramatic vertical element and offsets the color of the flowers with some background
solidity.
Next we come to the color! Gazania will produce daisy-like flowers of all kinds of
colors. Why not try experimenting with displays of single color Gazania, or a random mix of colors if you love a
more chaotic look?
The tiny, Forget-Me-Not sized flowers are the Verbena. These come in all kinds of colors, and are a
riot of life! Really pretty and fun to plant in your displays.
Salvia come in stunning blue or red, an unusually dark
flower that is like a tiny Foxglove. They counterbalance the more outrageous flowers in the display with a little
quiet elegance.
Blueish purple flowers and predictable, Vinca
Minor help to anchor all the other colored
flowers with a simple, yet very pretty, look.
Finally, the Calibrachoa, which come in either a mix of colors, or a set
type. We particularly like this Peach Evolution Calibrachoa, which looks good enough to
eat!
Please use the Comments link below if you have tried this display, or have any questions about the
arrangement.