Fancy Containers!

Are your pots in need of some fancy-ing up!?

Here’s a season-spanning container recipe from Ellen Egan, owner of Egan Gardens

"This arrangement alternates the foliage with the flowers, and the trailing with the bushy. I stuck some holly and snowberry branches in it to fill it out around Christmas. It was beautiful all fall, and when it came back with fresh leaves and flowers in March, it was prettier than ever."
Ellen Egan

Ellen’s Favorite Fall Basket Recipe: Blue and Yellow Mix
Use a 14- to 16-inch diameter hanging basket. I prefer to use pots from Western Pulp that are made of recycled paper and have a nice textured surface. Sharing the center space, plant an Acorus Ogon, a variegated sedge grass that keeps its foliage all winter, and a Sundaze Golden Beauty Strawflower, which blooms all fall, but eventually dies out in winter.

Around the sides, plant in this order:

» 1 Heuchera ‘Key Lime Pie,’ which keeps its bright lime green foliage all winter
» 1 bright blue pansy, which blooms all fall, lives through winter and reblooms in spring
» 1 Golden Creeping Jenny, which keeps its trailing lime foliage all winter
» 1 Euphorbia ‘Faded Blue Jeans,’ a bushy powder-blue foliage perennial
» 1 golden yellow pansy, for fall and spring blooms
» 1 Verbena ‘Superbena Dark Blue,’ a big trailer that’s nearly always perennial, for fall and spring flowers

To add a little fun into the mix...Le Tour is hosting a container photo contest.

Enter and Win Container Photo Contest

Send in your pictures of your favorite pot o’ plants, and our panel of judges will pick one or two for a $20 gift certificate at your favorite Le Tour des Plants garden center. Maybe it’s a food crop, cute conifers, fabulous flowers, or some dazzling combination you’ve created. Show everybody! Email your photos (jpegs no larger then 2MB please) to:

letour@oan.org

Happy potting!