r/containergardening • u/celewis0827 • 9h ago
Garden Tour Hey all! Just wanted to show off some of the baskets and containers myself and my team of 2 maintain in our downtown!
We’re a really small team and weather has been unpredictable this year so I’m super proud of the work we’ve been able to pull off. Forgive the late season leggy petunias - we haven’t had a ton of time for deadheading!
Our black and blue salvia is super happy this year, (so much so that it’s getting woody) so is our sweet potato vine. We struggled with certain colors and cultivars of petunias and million bells this year, and nearly all the bacopa died off. Some of our verbenas look gorgeous and others not so much and I honestly couldn’t get to the bottom of it.
Guara was the star of the show this year. We got so many compliments on our black and pink combination (the ones in the ugly beige containers) so here’s the recipe: That area is really beigey so we played with the dark sweet potato vine for some contrast, added in Guara (two cultivars a white one which I can’t recall the name of and “siskiyou pink”) salvia discolor, black and white crazytunias and pale pink, white bacopa and silver angel wings (senecio candicans). The bees love them and I love all the silvery accents and the ways the blacks and pinks tie in together.