Eckert’s Gardening Tips:
Great Plants for Containers

What makes a container work?

The 5 must-have ingredients:

1. Fertilome Potting Mix

2. Osmocote Fertilizer

3. Soil Moist

4. Great Plants! – interesting combos

5. A container with good drainage

Great Container Plants:

Herbs with great features

• Parsley (fine texture)
• Tricolor and bicolor sage (colored leaves)
• Thyme (fine texture/trailing)
• Golden oregano (gold leaves, trailing)
• Lavender (flowers and neat leaves)
• Santolina (silver leaves)
• Purple basil (purple leaves)
• Dill (fine texture, adds height)
• Rosemary (trailing types)
• Pineapple sage (red flower in summer, adds height)

Perennials for punch

• Moonbeam Coreopsis (long blooming, fine texture)
• Zing Rose (long blooming, fine texture, trails)
• Repeat blooming daylilies
• May Night Salvia (long blooming)
• Rudbeckia (long blooming, bright)
• Ceratostigma (trailing, blooms in late summer, fall color)
• Verbena canadensis (trailing, purple flower)
• Butterfly blue scabiosa (long blooming)
• Heuchera (purple leaves in shade)
• Lamium (variegated leaves in shade)
• Ajuga (purple leaves in part sun or shade)
• Variegated ivy (trailing)
• Hens and chicks (low grower)
• Ferns (good texture)

Tropical Looking plants

• Elephant ears (course texture, adds height)
• Cannas (course with flowers, adds height)
• Hawaiian snowbush (multi-colored foliage, adds height)
• Phorium (unique spiky plant, adds height)
• Banana (adds height)
• Sun coleus (adds height)

Annuals –The sky is the limit, these are some of our favorites

• Trailing Annuals
• Sweet potato vine
• Bacopa
• Tapien Verbena
• Million bells
• Trailing Lantana

Medium Height Annuals

• Petunias
• Pansies
• Geraniums
• Browallia
• Profusion Zinnias
• Pentas
• Heliotrope
• Torenia (part shade, shade)
• New Guinea impatiens (part shade, shade)
• Upright Lantana
• Polka dot plant

Tall Annuals

• Sun coleus
• Spikes
• Phormium
• Victoria Blue Salvia
• Purple Fountain Grass
• Millet
• Butterfly Osteospermum