On the CTG episode that first aired June 21, 2008, see how Martha’s Bloomers in Navasota beats the heat with plant combos for containers or beds.
Plant combos for containers or beds
Blue strawberry pot:
Salvia officinalis ‘Tricolor’
Sedum makinoi ‘Ogon’
Sedum reflexum ‘Blue Spruce’
Sedum ‘Rosy Glow’
Thymus praecox, pink flowered creeping
Light blue pot:
Scaevola ‘Blue Handflower’
Carex testacea ‘Indian Summer’
Dwarf pomegranate
Lady slipper (Pedilanthus macrocarpus)
Maroon pot on pedestal:
Sedum x ‘Vera Jameson’
Melinis nerviglumis ‘Pink Crystals’ ruby grass
Lotus ‘Amazon Sunset’
Sedum ‘Coral Reef’
Gray roaster pan:
Hen and chicks sempervirum
Sedum rupestre
Others:
Sedum ‘Ruby Glow’
Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’
Tricolor sedum
Beige urn
Copper plant
Angelonia ‘Serena Purple’
Sedum Mexicana
Lysimachia (golden creeping Jenny)
Web extras:
Large gray planter:
The Fairy rose
Calibrachoa (Million Bells)
Planter for shade:
Dianella ‘Variegata’
Japanese holly fern
Anthericum saundersea (grass lily)
Ajuga reptans ‘Burgundy Glow’
For sun:
Lemon grass
Spanish lavender
Bulbine
Saliva ‘Cardonna’
Gaura
‘Little Bunny’ pennisetum
Scullcap
Melampodium
Zinnia ‘Profusion’ |