Best Patio Container Plants

It makes a perfect fast growing screen for privacy.

Best patio container plants.

Maybe they have plentiful flowers colorful foliage or graceful trailing stems. Baby cakes offers up large tasty blackberries in summer and may produce an encore crop later in the season in some climates. New ever bearing strawberry varieties sport little jewels of berries that sparkle on mounds of greenery. Evergreen clematis is often sold tied to an upright stake but its trailing habit makes it perfect for the edge of a container.

Its compact habit maturing at 3 4 ft. It is hardy in zones 4 8. Plus keeping them up high protects them from your garden s resident chipmunks and other rodents. Plants like constant moisture and fare better in partial sun than strong afternoon sun which can bleach the leaves.

These are the best container plants. This tropical sunrise calibrachoa makes for a perfect container plant. 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. Well baby cakes is a dwarf blackberry without thorns.

To a gardener all plants are stars. 10 plants for pots and containers clematis some clematisare suitable for growing in containers. 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. But some plants are born to shine just a bit brighter. Tall and wide is perfect for patio pots. This mounding plant can be planted on its own or with a spiller plant like creeping jenny or sutera.

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.