Container Flower Gardening Ideas: Cordyline, Gazania, Verbena, Salvia, Vinca Minor, Calibrachoa

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.