5 Easy Tips for Stunning Container Gardens | Proven Winners® Guide

Want to design containers like a pro? 🌸 In this quick guide, Proven Winners® shares 5 simple tips to help you:

Select the right plants 🌿

Match growth rates for balanced design

Create eye-catching visual interest

Buy the right number of plants

Find inspiring container ideas

With these tips, you’ll be ready to create beautiful, professional-looking container gardens that thrive all season long!

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[Music] have you ever seen an amazing flower pot that stopped you in your tracks ever wonder how it’s made today we’ll show you exactly how to design your own stunning containers here are five tips you’ll want to follow when you start to put Plants together for your flower pots so let’s get started with the most important tip pairing plants that like the same growing conditions that means you’ll want to select a group of plants that all like similar amounts of sun or shade and moisture for instance in this recipe called Ireland we’ve combined Goldilocks rocks bidens superbells over easy caliber COA and Luscious basket Tang glow Lantana all three like to grow in full sun and prefer if the soil dries down a bit before you water it again they work especially well in hanging baskets or porous containers like unglazed terracotta because those kinds of containers tend not to hold moisture as long it gives the roots some Breathing Room between waterings the opposite is true with our eclipse of the sun recipe colus impatience and sweet potato vine all like the soil to stay nice and moist plus they benefit from some shade so all three tend to grow well together the second tip can be the toughest to master but once you do your containers will look more balanced and you won’t need to worry about any one plant taking over the whole pot some plants are naturally more vigorous than others that means they grow faster and get big quickly as opposed to plants that mature more slowly a classic example is super tunia Vista patunas these super vigorous plants grow very quickly compared to most annuals if you pair them with slow Growers they could easily take over and require pruning to keep them in check but if you pair these same patunas with other vigorous plants like coffee cups kolacia the container looks balanced and no one plant becomes dominant look for clues about a plant’s Vigor in the description words like vigorous and grows quickly mean it will need to be paired with other fast growing plants that can keep up when you find a set of plants that play well together in your containers take a picture or write it down so you can repeat it again next year maybe in a new color container recipes that include a mix of plants with different textures shapes and sizes tend to look more interesting than if all the plants are similar in our Blossom House recipe there are spiky and rounded textures some flowers are tubular others are circular the fireworks grass in the back of the container will grow much taller through the season while the super tunia mini Vista Yellow petunia will Trail over the side all of these things make for an interesting combination do you ever end up with too many or too few plants for your container here’s how to know how many to buy the determining f are how large your container is how large the plants will grow how quickly you want the container to look full generally a 12-in container measured across the rim can hold three to four Proven Winners Grande siiz plants if the plants you choose are extra vigorous like super tunia Vista patunas air on the side of fewer plants when you’re at the store group the plants together in your cart to get a good visual of whether you’ll need fewer or more that brings us to our final tip copy someone else’s great ideas a great place to start when you’re figuring out which plants to pair together is our container garden recipe Search tool on provenwinners.com it lets you search by Sunner shade needs color container shape and more or you can use it to find plants that pair well with your favorites click to a recipe you like and you’ll find the plant list how many of each plant you’ll need and how to arrange them in the pot from there you can save or print the recipes to bring to the store with you your local garden centers are a great source of inspiration to check out the containers they have on display to see which colors and combinations might look nice in your own garden their staff will be happy to help you find exactly what you need to pull off your best containers yet follow these five tips and you’ll be designing containers like a pro [Music]