Container Gardening Plants

Your container garden can be ornamental, edible or a combination of both. Flowering annuals and perennials, bulbs, vines, cacti, shrubs and trees are ornamentals. Edibles are vegetables, fruit trees, culinary and fragrant herbs and berries.

Planting a mix of ornamental with edible plants makes an attractive and interesting container garden. Some suggestions: Try mixing purple sage with yellow lemon dwarf marigolds and pink wax begonias. Blue salvia and white and pink petunias are colorful accents teamed with tiny-leafed and citrus scented lemon thyme. Plant onion flavored chives, with tall spikes and purple flower heads, two kinds of parsley, curly and flat-leafed, and low growing pink and white sweet alyssum.

The best vegetables for container gardening are tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, lettuce, spinach, carrots, broccoli, radishes, cucumbers and scallions. Again, mix ornamentals with your vegetablesyellow and orange marigolds with green or red peppers or tomatoes. Combine white and pink impatiens with a medley of greensspinach, lettuce, swiss chard, scallions and kale. Plant red and white geraniums with sweet green peppers.

In the fall, chrysanthemums come in various colors and flower forms. They are ideal for container planting. Ornamental cabbages and kale are colorful additions to a container in your fall garden or at an entryway.

Ornamental planting with shrubs or trees should be carefully thought out, since expense can enter into the purchase. The uniqueness of a tree or shrub planted in a container should play a part in its selection for the garden. So plant a not-so-ordinary tree or shrub where you will see it every day.

Source: Container Gardening Plants