Garden Design Tip: Use grasses as container plants. Sticking to a limited color palette, with a focus on varied textures and forms, can be as eye-catching as a container full of bright annuals.
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Pictured: In this container at Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art in Nashville, Tennessee, tall, bamboolike Arundo donax var. versicolor strikes a pose, fronted by Iris ensata ‘Variegata’. Around the edges are fountain grass (Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Desert Plains’). sedges Carex ciliato-marginata ‘Treasure Island’ and C. albula ‘Frosty Curls’, and shrubby rosemary and Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Snowkist’ Photo Jon Whittle
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