May ’25 Container Garden Tour! HUGE Hydrangeas in TEXAS??!! Plus – Lots of Container Design Tips!

Hi! This is Shannon from Grow Roots and I have 30+ containers in my container gardens, both in my front yard and my backyard! May is the month where my HUGE Hydrangeas bloom and thrive! Plus, I give lots of container garden design tips all throughout this video! You don’t want to miss this for Container Garden Inspiration!

hello everyone welcome to Grow Roots this is Shannon and welcome to my May 2025 uh container garden tour if you are new to my channel thank you so much for joining me today i’m going to show you all of my containers i have probably 30 plus containers between my front yard and my backyard and I have them because I have very little garden space i live in uh kind of a suburban area north of Dallas Texas in zone 8A 8B and so all of the plants I just don’t have room for everything that I want and so I plant them all in containers so this is a really exciting container garden tour you can see kind of why right here but um come along and and check it out so starting here on my front porch I have one of my favorite plants of all time and it is a 14-year-old endless summer hydrangeanger i got this for Mother’s Day uh 14 years ago and it’s been in this pot though you can’t see the pot literally they’re growing pretty much down to the ground um it’s grown in this pot for 14 years and I just am amazed at how well it is doing this is one of the best years for it there are over 60 blooms on this plant right now and it’s kind of a mixture of blue and pink right now i do give it soil acidifier i use espoma soil acidifier and I also hit it with plant tone fertilizer or holly tone or rosetone um any of those will work but I hit it twice a year with that i hit it in late winter early spring and then again sometime in July to kind of give it a boost through the season but right now it’s kind of in its full bloom stage and it’s absolutely gorgeous like just Oh I can’t even tell you how much I love this plant so uh yes you can grow hydrangeas in North Texas they can thrive like mine and you can also grow them in containers um I actually recommend growing them in containers as opposed to in the ground i mean not to say that it’s impossible in the ground but I have an easier time controlling the um the iron uptake because uh you can see this one actually needs a little bit right now uh they hydrangeas can struggle with chlorosis which is taking up iron from the soil um so it’s easier to do that when they’re in a container and it’s also easier to control the acidity of the soil if yours is um if your blooms are dependent on the acidity of the soil it’s much easier to control that um and manipulate that when they’re in a container but it is just absolutely spectacular and another plant that is absolutely spectacular is the one right next to it which is my variagated lace cap hydrangeanger and this plant is 5 years old i’ve had it for 5 years and this is the first time that it has bloomed for me and so I think it’s something with the variegated lace cap hydrangeas they do take a long time to bloom um and so I’m just so so happy to see kind of those lace cap blooms mixing in with the um regular hydrangeanger macrofilo blooms i think it’s just absolutely stunning look at that picture wow um I’m so excited there is a part of the plant that is not variagated and I was interested to see is it still a lace cap variety or is it a somehow like a regular hydrangeanger macrofila that was growing in with it somehow but then my answer my question has been answered it is a lace cap it’s just these leaves are not variegated and these are I think that kind of happens sometimes with plant variegation um and so but I just absolutely love it love it so so much look at that picture there wow and I love that people walk up to my home and then this is what they see so I just really like that uh I do have uh some containers right here this is kind of a three tier planter that I picked up from a lady in my neighborhood and I love it so much i initially was going to paint it black and maybe I still will at some point but right now I’m kind of just loving the the kind of rusted finish of it i think it’s really nice and I’ve decorated it a little bit with um some little garlands that I picked up off of Amazon so uh at the top here I have some bagonas and I picked these up on clearance uh late winter at Callaways they were only $3 each beautiful beautiful uh bagonas uh but they’re kind of petering out a little bit now um thinking of them as an annual i’m just thinking about kind of tossing them and then replacing them with something else that will last the whole season but I haven’t quite decided yet but this is another bagonia and then I have one more down here they’re just kind of all petering out a little bit and they’re tired so um yeah I may retire them but right here I have an auga i figured why not i don’t really know where I’m going to put this in the landscape yet so I’m going to grow it right here and this is I don’t know it’s not even a labeled Ajuga i got it on clearance at Lowe’s and then I have another pot with some auga right there they were blooming beautifully um probably about a month ago and then they’re out of bloom and that’s how they’ll look the rest of the season but this is a wonderful ground cover and I think it does well in pots as well it actually kind of wants to spill over which I really really kind of like that um some other things that I’m growing down here this is grown from seed this is a kolas colla mix or koka roa something like that cloa rose from um Baker’s Creek heirloom seeds and so these are doing okay they are not taking off like the rest of my uh rainbow kolas that I grew from seed those are in my backyard landscape but these I’m keeping in a pot uh these were the only ones to germinate from the entire package and yeah we’ll just watch those grow let’s see how those do right here is a beautiful I think it’s an angel wing beonia did I leave the thing in from Callaways let’s see no this is dragon wing yeah dragon wing pink beonia and I just really really loved it when I picked it up i think I’m getting some new blooms down there it was It was blooming pretty well when I picked it up but then kind of dropped its blooms a little bit after it was planted but looks like it’s doing pretty well and I really like that kind of bagonia this is a hydrangeanger macrofila and I propagated this uh last year and so uh it hasn’t bloomed or anything but it is doing quite well there next to it are some more cololas so this believe it or not I haven’t even planted this up cuz I don’t really have any room i should get a terracotta pot or something for it right but this is a proven winners um type of kolas that I just thought was so interesting looking it is let’s see fishnet stockings kolus so I really really think that’s so interesting with the the bright green and then the veining is all it’s almost black uh so interesting so I I just had to pick that up and I thought it would be perfect for this planter and then I have this is so Oh that’s right i did do some rainbow kolas here in this planter i have some in my backyard landscape but I set some aside for this so little bit of uh color variegation in those leaves this one’s a lime color like I said these are doing better than that colloco rose kolas but there’s a long time left in this season so I’m not going to not going to worry too much there’s that um auga I told you about beonia i have I think this is a leather leaf fern here this is just a really tough spot and I may not put anything there after this it’s obviously not doing all that well after this peters out I’m just gonna not put anything in that corner because it just gets very very little light unless it’s a very tall plant so um that’s what that is and then over here I have some foxtail ferns they keep putting on some brown branches on me but um we’ll see i got these on clearance at HB there’s another one right there and then I talked about these bagonas that are up there with that auga so that’s my three tier planter coming around i do have some clutter on my porch just letting you know uh some really really pretty plants and guess what they’re not even mine uh these uh belong to our HOA’s landscape committee i am the chair of the landscape committee and we are planting up some pool containers our pool is opening this weekend for Memorial Day weekend and we’re getting ready to plant all of these in five different containers in there um if you guys want to see that filmed I can see if I can film it i’m not sure if I will be able to but um that’s if you see these flats all over the place that’s what that is for and then coming over here I love tiered planters in containers it’s one of my favorite things and this look was done just by simply getting a plant stand that was free one of my neighbors was giving it away you can’t even see it anymore you see it right there that’s a plant stand and up here it has a spot for a pot and there is a pot and then inside is um Trauscantia Zabrina which I do have to overwinter this in my home it’s actually a house plant and then I bring it out in the summer and it just does so well here in this spot it was looking rough when I took it out and now it’s just looking so so beautiful and then down below is English ivy and I do have a dianthis planted in there so it’s kind of done blooming you can see I need to trim those off honestly but you you know when it is blooming I see these little pops of pink coming through that uh variegated English ivy so I just absolutely love that planter but that’s an idea for you if you do want a two-tiered look something to add some vertical interest it’s a great idea just get a plant stand and pop it right inside the container and put a pot on top of it and there you go so again a little bit more of those flowers uh but here is uh something that does great on my porch container you can’t don’t pay attention to this so I’ll come to this in a second but these are my Gerbera daisies and it is coming out of bloom right now for sure i need to get that one off it had about six blooms in there um as of last month but now with the heat uh catching up here in North Texas it’s like okay I’m going to slow down on the blooming which is totally fine and it’s focusing on leaf growth right now so yes it’s I if you saw my container garden tour even just last month you would be amazed with the leaf growth because it’s filling out this entire container and then by end of season like you won’t even see the container it’s this is one Gerber daisy in about an 18in planter like it’s a large container so it’s doing really really well it is so happy in this spot it gets morning sun and afternoon shade and uh just definitely loves it and then right next to it I have an Aelia it is I believe autumn sunset encore autumn sunset aelia and it is again not in bloom at the moment but looking pretty good and then again for vertical interest I have just a topiary that I made out of bamboo these little bamboo plant stakes there’s three four of them in there um and the English ivy is kind of just growing up on those and it just absolutely looks beautiful don’t mind this is like where I’m keeping my potting soil and compost i’m planting up a lot of things right now so like I said the porch has been has looked a little less cluttered before but it is what it is right now for this month but um this English ivy is so beautiful and it is evergreen so in the winter time this is one of the only things that’s still green and it just looks absolutely beautiful and it loves that spot on my porch as well so coming up here on my walkway just a moment ago the sun was not even in the equation but now I’ve got to deal with my shadows and the sun but I’ve got three containers coming up my walkway here and I planted them up with two of them are completely done well almost completely done with things I grew from seed uh winter sewed in the winter and then this one is like the one planner that I actually planned and bought things for so I’ll start talking about this because they’re finally flowering this is summer pastels yarao and you know when I planted these here I didn’t know what colors they were going to be but I’m so glad they turned out pink and white right next to each other i think that looks so gorgeous i’m so excited for this i love yarao and then hopefully next year I’ll have room in my landscape to plant it it is perennial here for us so um and then this is aeratum lita and I grew this this uh was winter sewn u from Baker’s Creek heirloom seeds and I wasn’t sure if I was going to like it when it first started blooming because this is kind of all I saw it was white and then it had these like purple crazy things coming out but then when the whole thing starts blooming like this that’s gorgeous i do love that and it’s got all kinds of blooms ready to go and then of course I have some creeping jenny and it is doing good in there and then over here this is one planter that I did kind of plan so these gorgeous patunias were from Callaways $1.99 these were not like brand name or anything but I thought they looked very similar to the Proven Winners a new one that came out this year the new Super Tunia Tiara Pink um and so I picked these up at a lot less cost and they’re doing really really really good um they almost always look like this and so I am getting ready to prune those back pretty heavily after this container garden tour um they are getting kind of tall and this is what you do with patunias you got to kind of prune them and help them to grow a little bit uh better and bloom better that’s just one of their tricks and so I’m getting ready to prune that by about 30% um here in the next couple days and then this guy is still going strong it’s leilia a blue labilia it’s beautiful these guys don’t last very long here in North Texas pretty soon it will just be way too hot for this plant and it will peter away but I think that’s okay um and then I have some creeping jenny in there again and then I forgot to talk about this because I forget about it every time there is a white salvia in here but it is just literally being taken over there can you see that white salvia oh it’s just not going to survive i think it’s just being overtaken by the patunias and yeah the patunias are even a few inches taller than it but uh anyway I do have a white salvia in there but I love this planter it is like you can see this from you know driving down the street it adds a beautiful pop of color and then the hedge behind it is sunshine the gustrom which you know what I noticed this creeping jenny foliage looks just like my sunshine the gushroom foliage like almost same color almost same shape not quite i get it but I have a very you know they’re very similar to each other but it makes that pink pop and it makes the yellow pop as well and so I love that and then this container right here has galardia grown from seed winter sewn and it’s so much taller than I thought it would be like uh I’m 5t tall and this is down to my chin or you know growing up to my chin so I didn’t think it was going to be this tall but look at those blooms how vibrant they are and it’s just full of blooms it’s so so pretty trying to deal with some shadows here but man I just love that so so much and so many more blooms coming see that so really impressed with the Gardia and then down below it I had a Billy Buttons or Crespedia um I plant I grew Billy Buttons from seed um I was inspired by another YouTube channel and she’s also my friend Kendall from the Joyful Farmer i can link um her page on the screen for you or in the description so you can check her out she grows all kinds of amazing things she has a cut flower farm all of the things like really she’s she’s amazing check her out but uh she grew these and I was like “Oh they’re so pretty i got to grow them too.” And I have one here but multiple in other planters in my backyard you’ll see them in a bit and they just have not been able to compete unfortunately with the plants that I planted them with they haven’t done very well and I don’t I think this might be my only flowering belly button out of the whole bunch it did put on one for me and it’s not like it’s not out yet so this is just the beginning of that bud but I am happy that I’ll at least be able to see what the plant should look like and then I’ll decide for the future if I want to grow that one again but for sure if it’s competing with anything that’s vigorous it’s not going to do well the blanket flower or galardia that kind of grew slowly as well which allowed that to grow and do what it needed to do and now the galardia is taking off but it took a while for the galardia to take off it’s taking a while for the belly buttons to take off you have to plant it with something similar that’s going to take a while another one that I could think of that it would do well with um and you’ll see in my backyard is verbina bonerences that took a while to take off now it’s finally going but I’ll bet it would do well there but I would never put belly buttons with something else that’s going to grow super fast like rud beckia you know things like that I learned my lesson but it’s all good this is all very much a learning curve for all gardeners whether you are beginning or you know a seasoned pro like we all learn things every single season and so this is one of the things that I have learned about belly buttons they don’t com they take a while to take off and they don’t compete well with other plants um that that that take off right away and here is another container that I have here at the front of my home and it has a Carolina sapphire cyprus and it is three ball topiary form and I did just prune this and I’m looking and it’s having some a lot of new growth since I pruned so that’s really encouraging for now it’s doing really really well and I absolutely love this Carolina Cyprus all right so coming over here I do have one container in my front garden and it has a Limelight hydrangeanger standard on it and it is budding up i’m so excited these guys will bloom uh in the summertime and it is just this is what my third or fourth year i trained this on my own it’s not absolutely perfect but has a really great shape this year it’s a little bit you can see it is a little bit crooked okay it I learned a lot of things cuz this is was the first time that I have trained a Limelight standard so I have learned but the shape of the top of this is unbelievable and I can’t wait to see all of these blooms on there so definitely looking forward to seeing it with all of those blooms and then down below I planted it up what maybe just a month ago with some dicondra i have a cute little sign that says sell say hello to my little friends i picked that up at Hobby Lobby a couple years ago i have white uh kora cascading vinka i have like a really dark pink almost red uh kora cascading vinka and then I have scavola as well and the scavvola everything’s kind of taking off honestly um it’s just looking so great it’s growing the skavvola is growing all throughout but also kind of pouring over the container and so I love that combination so some vinka dicondra scavola all very heat tolerant should do very well through the summer and I can’t wait to see that as it grows even further and here are my curbside containers so if you followed me at all last year you know that I grew Mystic Spires Blue Salvia in these containers last year and they were actually planted in the center i know they look like they’re further back um but they lasted through the winter for me they are hardy down to uh zone 8 so I wasn’t sure being planted in container we did receive actual zone 8 temperatures as low as what 10° uh Fahrenheit 5 degrees maybe I think 10 degrees um is the lowest we got and so it survived um and but what I am finding is that Mystic Expires Blue Salvia if it perennializes and comes back the connections between the Mystic Spires Salvia and the the old wood let me dig it up for you cuz I’ve potted it up with some new stuff but this is the old wood that the new um you know shoots are coming up out of the connections are very weak and so we’ve had quite a few heavy rainstorms and these guys will flop and break that’s kind of what’s happened over here too and I have some uh twine that’s around it to kind of hold it up i also had to reposition this planter so um yeah it’s a learning lesson now I don’t know if I do overwinter this this year i’m going to put a trellis it’s too late to trellis it because it had so so much growth i tried and it actually damaged a lot of a lot of the shoots um so too late to trellis it but if I do try and overwinter it I’m going to put a trellis up so that it like helps support um those stocks before those rainstorms come but I will say misticires blue salvia is a rock star so started blooming late spring um it will bloom all throughout the fall until a very very very hard frost it is a rockstar in the heat it is a rockstar in drought it is just a rockstar plant uh super pollinator magnet you can see this bee is uh flying all over it and in the summer this thing will be covered in bees and I mean like 50 bees per plant at all times in the summertime so it’s just a rockstar plant i do love it but I I have uh planted some again some kora uh these are not the cas are they the cascading vinka i actually don’t remember if they’re the cascading Vinka or the regular Vinka but uh either way they are the Kora XDR variety of Vinka because they are disease resistant and these guys can get some kind of like a a disease uh fungal disease that can hit them when we get really big raintorms and then they can die um it’s like sudden plant death if they get it and these are resistant to that so I’m trying this variety this year i do love that look it’s kind of like a red white and blue look in a way and uh the other planter looks the same way oh I got to show you the back side actually again this is overwintered and it just one of the portions of the plant did not come back but the back portion did which is I’m okay with that and then front planted with this white and uh almost a red Kora XDR uh Vinka but around the backside is uh a superbina sparkling amethyst and I planted one plant in here last year and it took over the entire planter it’s absolutely beautiful but the other one did not have that so because there was one of these in this plant and it overwintered again superbina is hardy down to zone 8 it was in a container we got zone 8 temperatures and it lasted just fine uh but I had to take some some of this rooted in over here as you can see so I took some of those that were rooted in i cut them off from the main plant and I placed them over here about what last week and so a couple of them are going to make it just fine but this one is not and that’s just kind of what happens when you transplant things um not all of them will survive the transplant but I wanted this to be somewhat matching you know and uh and so but look at how a lot of these blooms are kind of different but I will tell you um especially this look at this one well that one doesn’t look right but anyway they the blooms do look a little bit different coming back this year than they did last year some have more white some have more purple uh but Superbena sparkling amethyst is probably the best uh superbina and verbena that I’ve ever grown it is amazing i planted some in the ground last year as well and it did it’s doing amazing it’s like continuously relooming continuously looking amazing and it did really really well over winter as well so just love those curbside containers and then let me take you to my backyard and show you the containers back there all right so here is my shade container garden full of hostas and I’m a little bit taken aback right now it’s earlier in the morning than I usually do my tours and these these do get really early morning sunlight i thought this was going to be like full full shade and for some of those guys they still are full shade but these hostas do get just a tiny bit of morning sun and they are doing fabulous so these guys are what a year no going on they’re 2 years old and I got these on clearance they were if you all can believe this these huge hostas were $1 on clearance the summer before last because like in late July we just were so so hot and uh the the Little Elm if you’re in my area Little Elm Texas has a Callaways that puts things on clearance and it’s one of the only Callaways that puts things on clearance and so I got these for a dollar each it’s amazing this is a Proven Winners uh Shadowland Diamond Lake this is a Proven Winners Shadowland Woo La look at this wow and these two are looking real good um they do get eaten by snails and you’ll see my last one is starting to get eaten i need to reapply some snail bait but uh this is an Earroiccasta this is not a Proven Winners variety but it is beautiful and then this one is Wow look at this so gorgeous i love like the I don’t know the veining pattern of this or the it’s actual like puffy so cool such a great texture this one is uh I’m trying to think a blue elegance hosta and it is the one that flowers for me it is in bloom right now oh there’s two bloom stocks this year instead of just one so it’s a happy guy and this is the one that the snails seem to love the most right now that poor little thing um it’s just what happens i get it but they are absolutely gorgeous and they do really well here in this north facing shade garden and then coming over here is the rest of my backyard container garden and so starting off here is a planter this is all from seed i have uh Chip andale daisy zenyas that I purchased uh this seed from Eden Brothers and look at that color especially with the backdrop of like the pinks and purples that I have going on in the cottage in my cottage kind of garden back there um really really really beautiful color pop i absolutely love that it’s a different like leaf form leaf shape than most zenyas and they are somewhat smaller blooms but they’re prolific absolutely prolific and then in the center here again my good friend Kendall from Joyful Farmer um this is a variegated silosia and it’s starting to take off it’s taken a little while and that bloom looks kind of funky to me but it’s pretty cool and it’s keeping up with the vigor of those Chip andale daisies pretty well and I also have some um uh blackeyed susan vine i just kind of decided to try it as a weeping blackeyed susanvine instead of having something to climb on and it’s growing but it wants to grow up the plants so okay that’s just it it definitely likes to climb it does not like to trail but it is No those are older blooms i was going to say it was blooming but I don’t see those blooms anymore but these are pretty cool this is Chloe she’s our backyard garden cat hi Chloe she She tries to take my attention on all of my backyard garden tours right next to it is another summer pastels yarao and it’s just beginning to form that bloomtock if I had to guess those are going to be white but we’ll have to see and then right here is my herb garden so this is from last year i planted apple mint so that’s what this is peppermint that’s what this is and then let’s see there is variegated lemon thyme there was a strawberry in here but it is just being taken over by the mint that poor strawberry and then I have oregano right over there and so this is just really fun um come and take some clippings you know all of these smell amazing the lemon thyme is awesome in all kinds of recipes and so is the oregano and then next to it is a new grrina for this year that I have tried this is uh botanical interests fiery sunrise and I’ve got to say I’m not impressed with it at all the blooms are super like I don’t know you see this one over here the plant is really low to the ground and then the bloom comes all the way up here but wants to flop and it’s a beautiful red color i just don’t like the growth habit of this grumpina at all it’s much low growing much more low growing than the other gumrina that I’ll show you the glmprina globosa that I’m used to um and it’s it’s like the plant wants to stay small but the blooms want to stay huge and they’re floppy and I’m just not really a fan of it but it’s good to get the experience like I said you know every year is a new learning experience and so I don’t think I’ll grow this variety again but it is pretty i enjoy the different colors of the blooms um so that’s cool and then here is my desert rose it is just starting to bloom and we’ve got let’s see like one two oh yeah they are coming up they It’s very slow to come up this year and I’m not exactly sure what’s going on maybe it’s all of the rain we had because they are very drought resistant in that big old trunk that you see is all kinds of water that it holds and so maybe it’s all of the rain we had some really heavy rain um I’m not I’m going to say that that’s it i hope that that’s it but this this time last year it was you know full of blooms and it’s just beginning but they do look beautiful i love that white and then the the edges of the uh petals are that pink and then it’s got that yellow center so they’re really really beautiful absolutely awesome plant i do have to overwinter this in my home though it will not survive our winters i If you’re interested in how to grow this and how it does in North Texas I do have a video about that uh so you can check that out i’ll put the link in the righthand corner above and then right here is I’m really glad I did this this is Mr goodbud sedum i have this growing in my garden i had to transplant it and when I did a piece of it broke off that was rooted and so I potted I potted that up um and it did really well but now my actual Mr goodbud sedum is not doing well i’m not sure if it will survive um it’s and so I’m glad I took a a piece of it because uh this may be you know my only one surviving but it’s a beautiful sedum it will bloom in the fall and then here is a large container potted up with one of my favorite combinations this year starting down here as kind of a spiller i didn’t anticipate it would be a spiller but it is it is bunny tail grass and it’s the softest grass you will ever feel look at Chloe she’s like “Ooh let me get that i like that.” It’s a super soft very texture-filled grass i love feeling this and then when it blooms it will be like these little blooms that look like bunny tails they’re white and they’re so soft as well and I have I think three of them planted all around in this plant so that’s really fun and then I have a Zenia variety again I got this from Eden Brothers it’s a cupcakes mix these are pink cupcakes mix and um very tall zenia they’re pretty sturdy for being as tall as they are i have not had to stake them so that’s a good thing but I’m not loving like this is not looking like the picture they’re supposed to be double blooming like double pedled and they’re not and they’re very small for as tall as the Zenia is i do enjoy the color but some of them turned out white which I thought all of them would be pink so that’s a little bit you know this is a lighter pink but again not a double flower and then I have another white one so not super impressed with the pink cupcakes mix from Eden Brothers but I mean I still really enjoy the plant and I do think it’s very sturdy for as tall as it is a lot of these taller zenas I have to stake them uh because of their they just flop a little bit but this one does not and another thing that’s planted in there that I love love love is Grina globosa with the zenia they’re they’re really good to grow together and I’ll tell you why the Gfrina gosa and these at least these zenyas but any kind of taller zenia they’ll be pretty vigorous to get started as soon as it gets hot and they’ll grow about the same so that means that each one of them has their own space to grow one of them’s not overtaking another and when they do grow up and start flowering they look beautiful together I just really love that combination unfortunately the well not unfortunately it’s kind Cool the other Grina globosa that I planted here it is a white one and I wish it was this purple one cuz that would be just striking i think next year I’m going to get the I think this looks like uh the QIS Carmine or the what is it it’s like something QIS purple maybe i think that’s what I’m going to get this is just the Gina Gobosa mix so it could be any color but I really like this one the best for sure um but in the middle here as well I have a verbina banariansis and it’s just starting to bloom oh look at that i just saw these these Katy dids are just the bane of my existence right now i know Katy dids are not supposed to like completely overtake your your plants and kill them but they sure are wreaking havoc right now because they’re everywhere is that a Katy did even i think i don’t know anyway it is starting to bloom um this verbina benarians was slower to get started and I was worried that it wasn’t going to be able to keep up with the grrina and the zenyas but it did it did it caught up so I’m really happy about that maybe they shouldn’t be grown together in the future these can be grown with the billy buttons because they’re they’re both very slow to get started and they would both give each other the room that they needed but it is going to look really cool once that starts blooming like the cap of this is going to be those really cool purple verbina blooms and I just love this planter this is my strawberry planter and it gave me a huge harvest of strawberries at the beginning of spring and now it’s starting to regenerate and give me some more probably not as big as my spring harvest though but in the center I have planted balloon flower and so this one is really close to opening i’ll bet tomorrow it opens but the rest of these are all buted up and I really like you know the purple with the white flowers and then when we get strawberries the red it’s going to look really really pretty and then next to this is blew my mind ofulus actually this is probably blue days of evulus i don’t think it’s the proven winners variety but it’s really doing well i overwintered this in my home and thought it was going to die uh but I I put it back out as soon as it started getting warm and our nighttime temps were warm enough and it’s doing really really well look at those those are so pretty but by the afternoon uh these flowers kind of close that’s what um this is a type of I guess it’s a type of morning glory and so they bloom in the morning and then they close in the afternoon but in the morning they do certainly look absolutely gorgeous this pot is so exciting uh I planted a bunch of blue bonnet seeds in this pot and um I used a particular method of these blue bonnet seeds that made them I think outperform any of the other blue bonnets that I’ve done i can’t believe that they’re still blooming for me i can’t believe that they’re still putting on new blooms and it’s almost summertime i’ve never seen that with blue bonnets to be honest and uh many of them are growing their seed pods right now as a matter of fact that seed pod opened up yesterday as soon as I touched it it popped open it was so cool and that’s how you know that the seeds are ready to be harvested i got three seeds out of this guy yesterday and then I’m waiting for the other ones as well you can kind of feel them these are like nice and soft and fuzzy right now they’re not ready but when they start getting crispy and you squeeze it just a tiny bit and it pops open that’s when you know that the blue bonnet seeds are ready to be harvested so I should have a lot of those i have another pretty advanced seed pot over there and then a really fun fact did y’all know that you know when a blue bonnet has been pollinated because it will turn pink in the centers of the blooms so do you see how this one has turned pink like right there and down there all of those little blooms have been pollinated by some type of pollinator but if you see this one it’s white those have not been pollinated so this is so so fun so I know these pink ones will turn into seed pods and these white ones if they do not get pollinated they won’t turn into seed pods so the bottom of this is pink the top of this is white um you get the idea but it this one was never pollinated and so you could see like if it’s not pollinated it just kind of dries up but it doesn’t form a seed pod and then as you can see here this one did get pollinated so seed pods formed so that’s super fun and I just can’t believe like I said that I’ve still got blue bonnets growing in almost June and that’s really cool i’m so glad I did this um but what’s really in this container is a summer carnival hardy hibiscus and uh if you know my backyard garden seen my videos before you know that I struggle with grasshoppers and Katy dids like crazy and I have found that grasshoppers and Katy dids absolutely love rose malo hardy hibiscus leaves and so I just I don’t know how to get rid of them other than see there’s a katy did right there and the katy dids are easy enough to catch i can just Oh I didn’t get that one there oh anyway usually I’m fast enough to catch them and I throw them down and step on them yes I do uh but the grasshoppers are way too fast for me i need some kind of a net or something and they are just taking over and creating all kinds of holes in the leaves like I just kind of have to take the stance of well it’s a sacrifice plant i’m sorry but summer carnival hibiscus is beautiful because it has variegated leaves and it will have pink blooms if it gets to that point of blooming if the grasshoppers don’t just eat this plant alive i don’t know but um I have it planted here it struggles and it probably struggles mostly because of those dang grasshoppers but um it’s just one of those things i’d love to see this plant in its glory without the pest struggles that it gets but it just is what it is sometimes and next to it is a baby crepe myrtle it’s a pink a purple blooming one it started coming up in my garden and I pulled it put it in containers just to see if I could grow it and I did and so there it is and then another container over here that is another really great combination is Cosmos apricotta here we go these are so so pretty and then see look they as they age they get this purple and like a creamy peach color um and they get kind of more peachy as they age and so great great rockstar plant let me tell y’all very easy to grow from seed very high germination very prolific bloomer like it’s amazing i will grow this every year now cuz I love it so much and then it’s planted with Grina Globosa well okay it wasn’t supposed to be planted with Gina Globosa these were supposed to be these which these are a dwarf variety of Grina it’s called Buddy Purple and I think I got these from Baker’s Creek and yes they’re great um this is like coming in with it though and so buddy purple a lower growing gumrina real dark beautiful color but one I swear I labeled everything really beautifully this was supposed to be bloody purple and it was in the seed packet of buddy purple but this is definitely Gina Glossa and it’s that nice pink color and I think I’m fine with it i moved it to the back because you know if it’s going to be so much taller than everything at least it’s in the back and everything in the front will be lower growing so that’s cool but this container looks beautiful so Girrina mixed with cosmos any color varieties i think they would do absolutely beautifully together and I love that so moving on here we have this is sweet William um it is like double sweet William mix from Botanical Interest my absolute favorite Sweet William this was the first sweet William I’ve ever grown and I will grow it from seed every single year because it is a biianial plant and it only lasts a couple of years two to three and these are just the most beautiful blooms you’ve ever ever seen they’re almost like hydrangeanger blooms they’re so big and beautiful and tall and so um I’m growing this these are this is all winter sewn this year for blooms next year here is mammoth dill again winter sewn uh from seed looking great i will say this is not the most drought tolerant plant it gets very dramatic and limpy when it runs out of water and that’s almost every day so um but I’m just I’m growing it really for the uh swallowtail butterflies i’m hoping to get eggs um which I haven’t seen yet i really want the caterpillars y’all but I just have not quite seen any eggs on this plant yet but hopefully sometime this season we’ll see those caterpillars and then I have this planter that I almost feel like it’s going to need to be potted up in a bigger planter um this is rudekia grown from seed as well and about to bloom like crazy there’s probably like 15 blooms on this thing and I’ve planted it up with aeratum lita again grown from seed and those it it’s just now starting to come into bloom i have two of those one on this side one on that side and then here’s what I was talking about the billy buttons i think I have two Billy Buttons one here and the other Nope the other’s gone cuz that’s Rudekia so maybe I only had one but uh it is just not going to make it it can’t it cannot keep up with the vigor of Rudbeckia or really Azure Lita so it is just kind of sad trying to hang in there but just really not able to get the job done cuz everything has swallowed it and then I have this container right here that is so cute it’s like a little ferris wheel and the I finally figured out it took me a couple growing seasons but hens and chicks is perfect planted here so these are two different varieties of hens and chicks they have been here for more than a year now and there’s a little purse plane growing in there that’s wild um but anyway they overwinter for me they withstand the heat and the drought because these do not get watered with any kind of irrigation and so um they like it cuz they are you know succulents and so they’re actually doing pretty well i’m looking there’s a little baby there so really cool hens and chicks perfect for this type of planter right over here is a shasta daisy that my mother-in-law gave me and this was given to her by one of the master gardeners um in Colin County and then she had so much of it that she gave some to me she’s growing some as well and I’ve never grown shasta daisy before and so um really interested there’s a lot of these i actually could totally separate these cuz this just is a massive plant for this pot but uh looking forward to those blooms they won’t bloom until the summertime so there’s that now oh my goodness the first bloom of this okay this is exciting literally today this was not in bloom last night when I checked these out but this is coropsis incredible swirl and I grew this from seed um believe it or not I thought all coropsis was perennial in zone 8 well it turns out this is an annual and so I don’t expect this to be like something that I’ll grow you know every single year but it’s tall look at that it’s massive and um this is its first little bloom how sweet is that bloom for our coropsis i can’t wait cuz there’s like all kinds of blooms everywhere so that’s fun i do need to get a plant stake for this though i need to stake this up a little bit it is kind of leaning forward but it looks great and I have underneath it some um creeping jenny and then more creeping jenny in this container however look at this i’m so excited to show this to y’all this is amaranthis love lies bleeding and I can’t believe this already in May this thing is massive it is 5t tall um yeah 5t tall maybe a little taller and it’s just got these things everywhere this is one plant i grew amaranthis love lies bleeding kind of like as a warm season annual i winter sewed it but I winter sewed it just a couple weeks before our last frost and so it worked really really really well this way i had a ton of these that I gave away a ton it germinated amazingly for me and then this one plant is just absolutely stunning i can’t I can’t get over like this is one of the favorite things that I’ve grown from seed this year for sure look at that wow so super super happy about that and you can dry these and they dry really really well so yeah let’s But really excited about that that’s just such a cute cute color pink and then such an interesting bloom so so so interesting i will say this is caged up so I got a tomato cage turned it upside down turned it into a trellis like these are the these are the prongs that I just kind of wrapped around itself so I’ve created like a little obelisk trellis and before it got too tall and I’m so glad I did because otherwise I think it might be falling over but look how thick this stem is y’all look at this oh my gosh compared to my hand it’s just ginormous it’s so so big i think I have another one growing here already and another one oh my gosh i didn’t notice that that’s crazy so coming over here this is just a holding place for some variegated Vinka uh major and this was coming up in my front garden where I didn’t want it to and it would rooted itself so I popped a bunch of it here and I’ll just use it um in containers i’ll show you in a second where I already used it as a spiller in some of my containers see how it goes um and I will use it as some ground cover probably when it’s not so hot it’s already a little too late to try and transplant it as a ground cover but I’ll have this for the fall and use it however I want in the gardens and things like that so and then here this is my limelight hydrangeanger propagation station i uh trim my limelight hydrangeas in late winter early spring every year and then I set Here’s one that didn’t take so I can show you but I set these clippings aside and I let them harden off just on this on this patio right here i just let them stay out in the open for about 2 weeks and yes there’s freezing temperatures all of that thing um but these things kind of stay alive and so after they’ve hardened off I just stick them into the soil like so i make sure that at least a couple of these nodes these things are nodes um a couple of those leaf nodes are under the soil and then I leave them alone for the entire season and so you can see this one this is one stick that’s kind of crooked it is alive and growing all of these leaves and stems now what it’s also hopefully doing and should be doing at this point is growing some roots under the surface there and I have a few of them that have made it this one made it this is a different stick um that one has made it right there and are there any others i think that’s Well this one looks like it might still be alive oh yeah it’s got it’s got growth at the top of it that’s this one so I’ve got four it looks like four out of maybe 10 that are starting to take root and I just leave them alone for the entire season by the end of the season I will see not maybe not all of these will even survive the season but I’ll see which ones have survived and rooted and then I transplant them into a pot just like I have done with this guy so last year I did little lime hydrangeanger cutings and that’s what this guy is from last year so this is literally just last year it was this this year it’s this so it’s really exciting and even if I lose some of my limelight hydrangeas which I have found them to be a little bit tough here in North Texas I haven’t quite found well this is a sweet spot for them to be honest this is morning shade and afternoon sun if you can believe it um I’ve grown them in a lot of different areas and this is the area that they always survive the most but anyway that’s a little lime and excited to see this guy bloom i don’t know we’ll have to see it’s not putting on blooms yet um so yeah and then I have a little container here it has foxtail fern that variegated vinka major that I told you about i have an azeratum lita in there i even have a tradabrina cutting and I have star jasmine growing up here and it’s blooming this year because it actually survived the winter which it typically does not um star jasmine here in North Texas typically doesn’t the vine doesn’t survive our winters and so to see blooms in the springtime like this is very special because that means the vines have survived and it can bloom in the springtime and so I have some vines just a quick sneak peek i have some growing over here i just have to show you because they’re spectacular and the smell in my backyard is spectacular because all of this star jasmine is still blooming so I just absolutely love that but anyway coming back to containers we’re almost done i have some fuchsia in hanging baskets that is surviving two out of the three are doing pretty good they’re on their second set of blooms but I have a feeling as the heat progresses these guys are going to peter out for sure the fuchsia it just is not the most heat tolerant here for Texas and so they’ll love it in the spring but I don’t think they’ll survive the summer and then my final container here is just your normal pink wax bagonas and they’re amazing i love y’all really truly bagonas in Texas do really really well um they This is a shade spot they love the shade they can take part shade in North Texas they can take full sun in other areas of the United States but here in Texas the heat is just different it just is and so I would say part shade for these guys but um they grow really really well through the heat whereas impatience um no that’s a big no like I tried a whole bunch of impatience last year and they absolutely did not survive the heat of the summer so beonas it is for me and uh I just think they’re so so cute and then I’ve got it mixed with variegated vinka um and then I’ve got a little trellis because I have black eyed susan vine growing here and it’s a test oh I didn’t see that that went all the way up there that’s fun this is a test to see how blackeyed susan vine does in um the shade i’m going to see if it flowers it’s growing really well but I’m going to see if it flowers so far I don’t see any flowers on it um whoa hang on is that a bloom that’s about to start maybe might be a little bloom starting right there yeah but anyway that’s a fun little container and yeah oh you know I missed this one this is a blanket flower um again this one is a part shade location i tried this blanket flower in a different part shade location it started getting overtaken by my oakleaf hydrangeanger so I had to take it out before it died i placed it in this pot here i will say Galardia definitely prefers uh full sun like part shade it’s surviving but it’s not thriving like you see like the Galardia that I showed you in the other container so just an FYI galardia definitely needs full sun i like to experiment y’all i do know these things but I like to kind of test plants out in areas that people say they’re not supposed to be just to see kind of how they do um and that’s how we learn right but anyway uh that concludes my container garden tour for the month of May i thank you all so so much for watching i hope you’ll subscribe to my channel i do monthly garden tours and other types of gardening videos i would just love it if you subscribed like this video comment down below what your favorite container combinations are this year that you’re growing i’d love to hear from you and I thank you all so so much for watching goodbye everybody