Our goal each year is to create container ensembles that hold up from the beginning of the season into September or longer. Interesting foliage is the key, with flowering plants acting as accents, rather than the other way around. Of course you know we have to do succulents…. they are so incredibly easy and look fabulous right up to frost. Check back for our end of the season report on how well they held up.
Drum Pot 2023. Ingredients: Cordyline ‘Mocha Latte’, Abutilon ‘Harvest Moon’, Oxalis spiralis aurea, Heuchera ‘Southern Comfort’, Ming Fern, Begonia thurstonii
Nearby Iron Urn 202. Ingredients: Begonia boliviensis yellow, Heuchera’ SouthernComfort, Oxalis spiralis aurea, Begonia sutherlandii, Ficus elastica variegated
Detail with iron fiddleheads
Classic Bowl on Pedestal. The foliage has filled in, but flowering is just beginning. Ingredients: Gaura ‘the Bride’, Origanum rotundifolium ‘Kent Beauty’, Cosmos ‘Chocomocha’, Stipa tenuissima, Heuchera villosa ‘Autumn Bride’, Erigeron karvinskianus ‘Profusion’
2023 Brown Urn. Ingredients: Petunia’ Mocha Latte’, Heuchera ‘Obsidian’, Ming Fern, Euphorbia ‘Starblast Pink’
Detail…not generally a fan of Petunias, but this proven winner selection came highly recommended by a gardening friend, and it is nice next to dark leaved foliage.
Zen Bowl (36″). Colocasia with Cyperus alternifolius variegata (Dwarf Papyrus), Pilea microphylla (Artillery Fern), Black leaved Geogenanthus and trailing Variegated Bermuda Grass.
Succulent Planter, potted up in early March: Graptoveria ‘Fred Ives’, Graptosedum cv, Senecio vitalis, an Echeveria from Dick Wright, trailing Senecio 
The Cylinder Pot, potted up in early May: Echeveria hybrid, Aeonium, Portulacaria afra aurea, Graptoveria ‘Moonglow’, Sedeveria hybrid, Euphorbia ‘Blackbird’, Astelia
Unbusy pot: a specimen Echeveria ‘Lucita’ in a blue Apulito Bowl
Simple Terracotta Rectangle, with mini Sedum adolphii ‘Shooting Stars’, Sedum rubrotinctum, Sedum borchii sport and Crassula muscosa.
Check back in the autumn to see how these fared over the summer.
Your containers are so lovely, so inspiring! thank you for sharing them. I love that you use unique color combinations and such interesting plants, marrying the containers with the planting theme and colors. Wonderful!
What kind words. Thank you Judy!!!
The euphorbia in container #5 & #6 is a wonderful, underappreciated container plant. It has a very small footprint, but if one plants 2 or 3, by midsummer they will create a delicate white cloud around the entire planting. I have a hard time convincing people to use it, because it’s unprepossessing at first.
Inspiring as always. Have to agree with you about that Petunia. It might turn me into a fan.
I always love you containers and the pots you use.
I was there last week and enjoyed my visit and purchase so much.
A lot of striking combos here. Will look forward to the next report. Oh! Those iron fiddle heads are totally cool!! Source?
I love everything you do. Very creative containers. Such an inspiration. Thank you
So beautiful and original both plants and containers.
Outstanding color and texture combinations. And to top it off, unusual plant combinations. Yours are the most beautiful pots.
I’d love you to write about the relationship between the plants and the pot. So often we forget that the size, shape and color of the pot is a critical element of the total effect.