FOR bringing colour up to buildings and for decorating the vertical spaces of gardens small and large, you can’t beat seasonally planted baskets, pots and windowboxes.
The range of cascading tender perennials is stunning; I find the unusual shades and colour combinations in the flowers of petunia, calibrachoa and bidens especially good. The aim with most basket planting is to go big and to create an impressive ball of blooms and foliage, with curtains of glechoma and unusual touches guaranteed to make folk stop and look. But if flamboyance is not your style, then refined choices of one plant type per container work well, too – for instance, try the silvery trailing foliage and claw-like scarlet blooms of parrot’s beak or coral gem (Lotus berthelotii) or the inflated, slipper-like flowers of Calceolaria ‘Sunshine Yellow’.
Circles of life
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7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。
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