CHOOSE A CONTAINER
Match your planting container to your house front: choose terracotta to go with red brick, galvanised steel for modern houses and wood for cottage windowsills, If using wooden ones, line them with plastic.
Now look at the front of your house and see what colour stands out to you? Is it the colour of the front door or a gate? Select plants that match or contrast strongly with this. Use several shades of one colour for an elegant, harmonious look. Or for impact, choose opposites like red/green, purple/yellow, orange/blue.
For sunny windowsills, pelargoniums, verbenas and petunias are brilliant. In shady spots, you can still get plenty of colour from shade-tolerant nicotiana and calendula.
Select a plant for height in the centre, like a spiky cordyline, tall pelargonium, or even a grass. Complement with filler plants like verbena or petunia, and finish with trailers to tumble down the front like calibrachoa, Helichrysum ’Limelight’ (gold) or Dichondra ‘Silver Falls’.
PLANTING UP
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