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3 Containers I’m Planting in My Garden Right Now



Hello friends! Today on Gardening with Creekside we are planting three very different containers for three different garden situations — full sun, full shade, and a container designed for fragrance and structure in the garden.

If you’ve been itching to get some spring color planted but want plants that can handle the cooler temperatures of late winter and early spring, containers are a fantastic option. In today’s video I’ll show you exactly how I plant my containers for success using high quality potting soil, slow release fertilizer, Biotone for strong roots, and a layer of mulch to help retain moisture.

We’ll plant a bright hanging basket for full sun using Proven Winners Superbells Double Magic Grapefruit, a woodland strawberry planter filled with miniature hostas, and a large statement urn with a special variegated gardenia Mimi gave me paired with Superbells Black Currant Punch.

Whether you have a sunny porch, a shady woodland garden, or a patio that needs fragrance and structure, these container ideas will give you inspiration for your own garden this spring.

Containers are one of the easiest ways to add beauty and personality to your garden — and the possibilities are endless!

There is grace in gardening, and I hope today’s video inspires you to get outside and grow, bloom, and thrive.

00:00 Introduction: 3 Containers for Sun, Shade & Fragrance
01:15 Planting a Sunny Hanging Basket at the Chicken Coop
03:20 Superbells Double Magic Grapefruit Overview
05:40 How to Plant a Hanging Basket for Success
08:20 Fertilizer Tips: Continuous Release & Biotone
10:45 Why I Add Mulch to Containers
13:00 Shade Container Idea: Strawberry Planter with Mini Hostas
16:20 Mimi’s Clever Strawberry Planter Trick
19:00 Backyard Statement Container with a Variegated Gardenia
21:40 Pairing Gardenias with Superbells Black Currant Punch
24:10 Reviving Winter Damaged Shrubs in Containers
25:40 Early Spring Container Planting Tips

28 Comments

  2. @juliafiore120

    Good morning, Jenny😊I am in love with the “mice” container! Mimi is brilliant 🤓The new Grapefruit Superbell is my new favorite! Have a Blessed Day 😊🐶

  3. @susancoffman6516

    Just a thought, how about putting moss around the little mouse hostas . It might help hold the soil in the holes. It looks great!

  4. @noellanmcdaniel9055

    Good morning Jenny 🎉I have 2 Aimee gardenias. Also zone 8 to 11. I gently wrapped in incandescent Christmas lights around them and then hooded them with frost fabric. I am zone 8 a . I wasn't sure during those cold snaps but Jenny!!! They are beautiful! We had a wind chill of 1° actual temp of 12° and didn't get above freezing for 3 days! I am Soo excited . Your gardenia will be stunning❤

  9. @alicevaughn7990

    Jenny,i live in zone 7 I love gardenias . I had a gardenia years ago in a pot and lo and behold it died . Would it be safe to plant one in the ground or should I I try another pot ? And the mini hostess not a lot of shade we lost a big tree last fall thank you I know that’s a lot of questions. Beautiful hanging baskets.

  14. @mavisjones4750

    Thanks for the idea for the strawberry planter. Love the planter but have always struggled with it. I don't have much shade but like the idea of the hostas in it.

  15. @DebbieDuckworth-h5r

    Great video. Love the strawberry container. I’ve seen them at the nursery and wondered what I would plant in it and you answered that for me today. Mimi had a great idea about how to pot the plant in the middle. Perfectly fits and it can easily be changed out if need be. Y’all are the best. Thanks for all of these ideas 👏👍⭐️🐓😁💗🙏🐾

  17. @juliereis146

    Hi Jenny I was just wondering, what if you packed Spanish moss around the miniature hostas in the strawberry planter? Just a thought 🥰🥰

  20. @cece_marie

    Oooh, cool jazz is going to glow at night on the patio! Love all the containers, unbelievable how much the new woodland garden at the coop has come along.

  22. @hollywoodmomof3

    Hi, Jenny! Is there another perennial flower blooming, variegated shrub option for a container besides the Gardenia Radican? I am also zone 8a formerly 7b, but Northeast Alabama! Thanks!

  24. @katjo812

    I got notification that my barefoot roses are coming tomorrow! Just 1 day before we are getting 8-12 inches of snow near St Paul, Mn. .. so how do I store them til I can plant them in a month?

  25. @peggy-ann1961

    Hi Jenny, this is what I’ve found to be successful in keeping soil from spilling out of slanted pots. I cut the rims off of the black nursery pots into 1/2 moon shapes to whatever depth and length I need, and fit them between the soil and planter rim as a little lip. The plant grows and covers it and it’s black, so hardly shows anyway. Hope that all makes sense, it really works for me. Zone 3 Manitoba 🇨🇦💪❤️

  26. @Apothecaryrose

    I love your gardenia story for so many reasons. I always loved my grandma’s southern garden in Mississippi – she hardly had any grass at all just beautiful, beautiful flowers. But no gardenias. The first two times I ever smelled gardenias are memorable. First it was visiting Bellingrath Garden near Mobile, Alabama when I was a teenager. Gardenias perfumed the air throughout the garden as I remember it. I was entranced. Then decades later with my husband and children we visited Helen Keller’s birthplace in Tuscumbia, Alabama and as we walked through the back yard there I said, I smell gardenias. I knew what it was even after all those years. So I searched and found some growing at the back of the property. My family knows how I love them so for two of my children’s weddings I wore gardenia corsages and I now have several gardenias growing in pots that I put in the garage during the cold months to protect them from our Kentucky winters. Thanks for showing your gardenia which is not looking the best! Makes me feel better about mine that are looking pretty sad right now. It gives me hope.

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