Containers Archives - Growing With Plants

Curating Vintage Palettes – Containers Inspired by 1940’s tablecloths

August 20, 2012

MUSSAENDA HYBRID ‘DOUBLE RED’ LOOKS VIRTUALLY HORRIFYING WITH THESE RED VELVET-LIKE BRACTS AND PINK FLOWERS, BUT IN SOME OF MY CRAZY COMBO’S, IT ADDS…

Peruvian Daffodils

July 25, 2011

A HYBRID HYMENOCALLIS, OR ISMENE ‘SULFER QUEEN’ OPENS IT’S HIGHLY FRAGRANT FLOWERS GROWING IN A CONTAINER ON THE WALK TO THE GREENHOUSE. Ismene ‘Sulfer…

Agapanthus save the summer garden

July 25, 2010

Agapanthus ‘Storm Cloud’, photographed, after a severe thunderstorm yesterday. As the heat and humidity ravage the US, forcing lilies to burst and rot, and…

A hardy gloxinia -Sinningia tubiflora

July 13, 2010

I think I have finally mastered growing Sinningia tubiflora, one of the many new ‘hardier’ gesneriads, those plants in the African Violet family, which…

Late August Containers, and Daphne

August 24, 2009

Tis the season for Fuchsia’s, and these upright forms are my favorite for displays since they can be used in pots, and staked vertically….

Mid Summer Photos

August 2, 2009

An August evening Drumstick Allium, Allium sphaerocephalon. Blue Hydrangeas in an urn, a test photo for my new magazine project ( soon to be…