August Container Garden Tour ’25! Over 50 Containers of Annuals & Perennials!

Come join me as I walk through the 50+ containers in my backyard and front yard! Some are perennials, some annuals, some are shrubs; and one hydrangea that has been in a container for 14 years! Find out which plants and container combinations made it through the season, and which ones struggled or didn’t make it!

Hi everyone. Welcome to Grow Roots. This is Shannon and welcome to my August 2025 container garden tour. Well, hi everybody. We’re actually in late August. This is the last week of August in 2025. And so I wanted to show you all of the containers that I have going on. Um, some of them are doing amazing. Some of them not so well. This is all of the containers that I have in my backyard, but then there’s a lot of containers that I have in my front yard as well. Just not as many actually. Um, so let’s go ahead and get started. Let me go back to where I like to say is the beginning. But, uh, here is my backyard patio. And you know, just because I have limited garden space, I like to keep a lot of containers to kind of outline the garden spaces so that I can grow all of the plants that I want to. So, let me start on this side with this container. Yeah, that is a container. This started out this season as a container with Chip Andale Zenas and then uh Blackeyed Susan vine. And I grew that I grew all of it from seed. Both of these things are grown from seed, but the chip andale daisies zenas are no longer um they didn’t withstand the heat very well and but the blackeyed susan vine is withstanding the heat. It’s had some heat stress. There’s not there’s probably something going on um for sure with some of the leaves, but it’s such a tough vigorous vine and it does not bloom for me here in North Texas in the heat of the summer. Today is 90° and so it’s just it it doesn’t bloom during that time. But I did find it was blooming in the spring and it will bloom again for me here coming up. Our temperatures are about to cool off significantly with the cold front tomorrow and kind of stay in the 80s, which is so so crazy. So, I anticipate this guy by the time I have my September container garden tour, this guy will be in full bloom with yellow uh orang-ish blooms, and that will be lovely. It is growing on a tomato cage turned upside down and made into a trellis. So, that’s fun. down here. It’s something that succumbed to the heat for sure, but is bouncing back. This was summer pastels yarao kind of died back. Um, watering has been a little bit of an issue with this guy. It’s either too much water or not enough water. And so, anyway, it is bouncing back. I cut back all of the dead and it’s doing okay so far. This is my herb planter. But all you can see right now is apple mint. And look, apple actually has some beautiful purple blooms. And during the day, this is covered in smaller bees. Some of them are honey bees, some of them, I’m not sure the species, but all of the smaller bees seem to really, really like this apple mint bloom. Um, I have peppermint in here somewhere. There’s some peppermint. There you go. And then there’s some more peppermint. There’s lemon thyme. And there is oregano in here. So, there’s actually strawberry in there as well, but look how small those leaves are because it’s getting swallowed in mint. And then this container was so much fun. This is two different types of gumrina. It’s really fun. This one that you see, this bright purple one that’s kind of um I think it’s actually what do we say? A well, it is a dwarf. It’s a dwarf gumrina. More compact in size. I love the shape of its um leaves as opposed to some of the other gumras as well. And I love this color. This is called Buddy Purple Gumprina. Um and this is from Baker’s Creek heirloom seeds. And I this is probably one of my favorite GFrina varieties that I have grown so far. It’s unbelievable and dwarf and I just love the color and all of the things. So this red one so interesting. Um, this one is I think it’s called a fiery sunrise comprina. And this is from botanical interest. And I like it. I really do like the unique combination of colors that it offers. Like some of these are more yellow. I just don’t love the habit. It’s kind of a creeping habit. Honestly, it’s interesting for a grumpina. So for me, it’s been more of a creeping habit. I haven’t loved the growth habit, but it’s the gumrina is starting to mix in with the apple mint, and I just think that looks lovely. So, I’m loving that. Here is a smaller container. And this is Mr. Goodbud Sedum. And yes, it’s struggling. Uh, again, either I’m giving it too much water and then I back off and then it’s not enough water and it does this. And so, also, I cut this guy back a little bit too late. I just cut it back um about three weeks ago. I should have cut it back in July and I would have seen a lot more of these buds. And so that’s what you do with autumn joy seedum, Mr. Good Budum. You kind of cut them back in July so that that all of the new growth can put on nice structurally sound blooms that don’t flop over. And I did that just a little too late. But it is growing and it is starting to bud up and it will give us some fall color even though it is struggling. And over here is another Grina container. This is Grina Globosa and it’s two different colors. Again, this one this was a a mix packet of seeds. So, it’s a mix of colors. So, this was the purple. This was the white. And I have another pink variety in another container. I’ll show you. Um, and grown with it is uh cupcake mix zenia. Uh, the cupcake mix zenas. Um, well, I mean, they haven’t been the most amazing. This was ah, I want to say it’s from Eden Brothers. This one was white. I did have some pink ones, but I think they may have died off a little bit. I had to cut them way back. Everything in this container had to get cut way back because it just kind of flopped over and got very um uh kind of dead from all of the heat. You know, the leaves dried up, all of those things. And so I cut this way back and then I put an upside down tomato cage that looks like a trellis. And I put everything that was left underneath and and growing up into that tomato cage. And I absolutely love this. It’s like gambina grown inside a tomato cage. and it doesn’t flop over and I I’m absolutely loving it. Um, another plant that’s in there that’s just coming back cuz it got cut pretty heavily. This is burbina banarianis. I couldn’t think of the name of that. Oh my goodness. But anyway, my verbina 2 started getting eaten really, really badly. You can see even the new growth, but it’s not as bad as what it was. There’s some kind of and I forget what it’s called. There’s this very specific bug that’s chomping on this. And so, um, anyway, it is growing back and it is starting to flower. So, that’s good. That container is going well. And then this one is a strawberry container. My strawberries at this time of year just kind of they don’t go dormant, but they’re definitely working on making their babies. And so, that’s always fun. If you wanted to, you could make a bunch of strawberry plants from this. I went through that effort last year and it was just a lot of effort and I didn’t really need the babies. And so I gave them all away. And this year I’m just not I’m not doing it. Um there is a balloon flower in here. And it does have one flower. Two. Look at that. Oh my goodness. Three. They’re all where we can’t see them. But there they are. There’s a little strawberry leaf that’s dead. But that bloom flower is in the middle because I just love the blues with the reds. That container is doing well. And then this one. So, this is overwintered from last year in my house because it doesn’t survive in the winter in zone 8. But this is um blue days evolvus and I think it’s bloomed only twice for me this growing season and I’ve tried really really hard and I just don’t know what the secret is to keeping blue days or just regular evolvus in bloom. I love the blue blooms, but most of the time it’s looked like this and it has all kinds of new growth. Maybe in the fall. Maybe guys, maybe in the fall when it gets cooler it will start blooming again for me. But anyway, that’s evolvus. Over here, this is summer carnival hibiscus. This plant has struggled, struggled, struggled. Um, originally it all looked like this when I got it. And it’s beautiful variegated foliage. it does not do well. Um, it gets eaten. It struggles like it’s prone to all of the diseases because it’s just on the struggle bus anyway. And then it started reverting back to I don’t know whatever maybe it was grafted onto. This is another hibiscus for sure. But um, also all of the buds this year have fallen off. So it tells me it’s just not a healthy plant. And next year I’m either gonna find a home for it or yeah, I’ll I’ll give it away to somebody because I just I can’t make this guy happy and I’m done trying. It’s my third season. So now this container is pretty fun. This is um the summer pastels yarao and it’s doing well. Again, grown from seed. Um, starting to get a little bit of brown tips on some of the leaves, but new growth like crazy. And then creeping jenny is growing. Um, some of it is a little bit a little bit um crusty. Well, yeah, from the sun. And then I don’t even remember planting this, but this is um variegated vinka. So, I may have popped that in there at some point, but I don’t remember doing that. But anyway, the creeping jenny is doing pretty good. The summer pastels is doing good. This yarao, by the way, is going to get transplanted into a new garden bed um pretty soon. Um I will do I will do that garden bed, that new garden bed in probably midepptember is what I’m telling myself. I want to give it plenty of time before our first frost, which is in mid November. Um and so I’m planning on doing that fairly soon. And then here is another Grina container. And this one is just allowed to do whatever it wants to do. It’s not on any kind of trellis like the other one I showed you. This is all Gina Globosa except Yeah. Actually, no. This is Grina Globosa here. The pink variety. There’s two Grina Globosa pink varieties in here. And then all of the smaller ones that are kind of in there and mixed in, that is the buddy purple. So buddy purple gumrina goes amazingly well with the other types of gumrina because down below it will have beautiful pops of color. Um but it stays a lot more compact. I just love that. Oh my goodness. Grina, by the way, is probably out of all of my container plants. Um, I would say it’s probably the most heat tolerant. Is right up there with my misticires blue salvia. But it literally it’s not bothered by pests. It’s not bothered by heat. Um, these see the the flowers just last forever. What happens is this is one of the original flowers and it just keeps growing. Like this will turn white but the tips will keep growing and growing and growing and they’ll get huge. Like this one did finally uh stop. But you know it it’s just unbelievable and more and more and more coming. Grina is just unbelievable. I love it so much. And there’s Miss Chloe, our backyard garden cat. Hello sweetie. Hi. How are you? Okay. All right. Um, this container right here is all um a double sweet William mix. This is from seed from Botanical Interest. It is a Sweet William, but my goodness, y’all, it is the most amazing Sweet William you will ever see. I tried buying some sweet William in the nurseries that looked like it and they just they weren’t as beautiful. They weren’t as big huge bloom heads like these are. It’s just the most amazing thing. And I grow them every year because sweet, this sweet William is biianial. And so it’ll only last two or three years and then it’s supposed to die back. I do have one that’s going on 3 years old and still alive, but you know, probably not producing like it would. And so I plan on having it in my garden every single year. And so these were grown from seed, winter sewn. Um, and this year they’re just they’re growing their their leaves and getting all of the energy into the root systems. There’s multiple plants here. Um, and what I will do is go ahead and split these off and put these again in my new garden bed. And they should have beautiful I’ll pop a picture. Beautiful, beautiful blooms in the spring. And I Chloe likes them too. Don’t you? What’s so interesting, y’all, if y’all are wondering why this is in here, this is actually the wire hanging basket. Um, and that that’s how little these guys were when they were seedlings. And my puppy kept trying to eat them. And so I put this cage, it turned it into a cage so that my puppy couldn’t eat them. And now it’s just growing over the cage as you can see. So that’s crazy. I hope I’ll be able to take that cage out actually, but we’re going to do that soon. And then this container is also hi a really great container this year. So I mixed rudekckia with azeratum lita. Um azeratum lita is from Baker’s Creek annual or baker’s creek heirloom seed and it’s been a great performer. I’ve never grown azgeratum period before and it’s just this one isn’t in flower as much as some of mine are, but I think when it gets cooler it will be in a lot more flower, but it’s been again heat tolerant. Um, pretty drought tolerant. It doesn’t show heat stress or drought stress to me. It just always looks like this. All I do is I go off and I snap these these old blooms every once in a while. And by the way, those are probably seeds. I’ll put them over there. Um, and I have some in part shade. This one is kind of in a full sun almost. And uh, just does really, really, really well. And it looks beautiful with rudekia. Now, this rudekia, all of my rudekia, I don’t know, it’s rudekia hera grown from seed. just your not normal rudekia seed which is supposed to be kind of a I think it is a short-lived perennial but man mine just do not last even a full season. Um I don’t know if you can see this but we’ve had huge dieback of this. it just gets full of like powdery mildew or aphids and I cut it all out and it’s got some that are still there which look beautiful but it’s not going to last too much longer and I totally Yeah, I grow them as annuals and they’re still so easy to start and so easy to grow as annuals that I’ll still continue to grow them just not expecting them to really last the season. So, starting over here, these are some clearance plants that I picked up quite a while ago, at least 6 weeks ago. Um, they were buy 1 get one free at Shades of Green in Frisco and I couldn’t pass it up because again, I’m starting that new garden bed. I have some perennials in mind that I wanted to put in there and they had them and I just I had to get them. So, they all started in these onegon containers, and I’m keeping one thing in the onegon containers kind of as a a test to see it what works better. But what I did with the rest of them is I potted them up, all of them, into bigger containers. Anything that I had, as you can see. Um, and so honestly what I can tell you probably so far, I mean, this is doing pretty good and it’s still in its, you know, one gallon. This is Russian sage. This is actually the variety little spire Russian sage. And, you know, it’s still got lots of new growth. It’s, you know, some new blooms going on. Um, so I mean, I think though the root growth is going to be so much better in these two Russian sage than this one. So, it’s kind of my experiment. But, um, over here I have two, uh, Texas rock rows. And I’m so sad that none of them are blooming right now. I have a ton of buds coming. If you can see, this is a really, really, really cool plant. It looks like a small little pink hibiscus bloom. Um, but these are rock stars. These are, I believe they’re Texas natives. They are definitely a Texas superstar plant. hate tolerant, drought tolerant, uh, full sun or part sun. That’s kind of why I’m getting it because the area that they’re going to be in is 5 hours of sun. So, technically in between a full sun, part sun condition. Um, and then one thing about them that you should be aware of before you plant them is they seed themselves pretty heavily. And, uh, in that respect, they can, you know, spread themselves very quickly. So, that’s what this is right here. the seeds have fallen from um from the blooms that I’ve had so far and then the babies are growing. So anyway, super great heat tolerant Texas tough plant there and I have two of them. And then over here I have some echgonatia Cheyenne Spirit. I’ve always wanted Cheyenne Spirit Egonia and it they have all of the colors, you know, orange, red, and yellow. Um and they’re doing okay. They’re not the happiest right now. And one of the reasons they’re not the happiest, as you can see, is my puppy is chewing on the leaves. She’s developed a taste for echania leaves. And I looked it up. Don’t worry, it’s actually okay for dogs to have, you know, a little bit, which she chews a little bit at a time, you know what I mean? Like one leaf at a time. And some in some instances, echania is actually used in some of the immunity supportive uh supplements for dogs. So, I don’t think it’s going to hurt her. If anything, it’ll help her, but I got to keep her away from that for sure. And then finally, I have this, which I’m so in love with. This is Veronica or Speedwell, and it wasn’t labeled at Shades of Green, so I don’t know what variety it is. I just know that it is Veronica. And just look, the when I bought it, the blooms were already spent. So, I kind of clipped it down um both of these little guys and it started, you know, forming new growth. Like you could see, let’s see. Gosh, actually I don’t remember. Before you could definitely see where the new growth is versus the old growth, but here I think all the new growth is from here up. It just it’s, you know, repeat blooming and absolutely beautiful. I love that deep purple color and I can’t wait. I really hope that I’m successful growing Veronica in that new garden bed. So, coming over here, I have a cluster of containers that all of this is all considered full sun, at least 6 hours of full sun all day long. Whereas these guys get maybe 5 hours of full sun if that, but in the late afternoon. So, they get the heat, the hot full sun. And let’s just start with this one. This had a um amaranth love lies bleeding, but it’s gone. It did not survive the heat for me, but it got huge and beautiful in the meantime. I can pop a picture on the screen of that. Oh my goodness. I just saw something. I didn’t know that this spider was here. Look at that. So, I believe that’s a garden spider or an orb weaver spider. It’s ginormous. And this is fabulous. Actually, this is going to catch all of my bugs for me. I am not worried about it whatsoever. She can stay there. It’s gorgeous. My husband will hate this. My husband hates spiders, y’all. I’m sorry. I got distracted. Okay. Oh my goodness. Anyway, so what I ended up popping in here was a Grina Globosa extra that I had. And so it’s the pink one. And she’s doing good. Doing just fine. Um, it’s hard to tell what’s what, but right here in that pot is this, the limelight hydrangeanger. So, this limelight hydrangeanger is one of the ones that I propagated from cutings last year. And look how well it is doing. The the limelight hydrangeanger I have found grows best in this part sun, like afternoon sun um space for me. And like they just they’re doing really really well. There’s a little bit of heat stress on the leaves, but I’ve lost my other hydr limelight hydrangeanger. I think that was in full sun. So I will be continuing to grow limelight hydrangeanger in part sun only from now on. This is my desert rose. So if y’all have followed my channel, I previously what gosh when was that? It was in July sometime, maybe even June. I pruned my desert rose and repotted it and lifted it up and all of the things. I pruned it hard. It was struggling this year and I found out it was getting a little bit of root rot and so it was a good thing I pulled it out. Uh you can see where the root rot damage was done, but right now it looks to be okay. I was told like I should have cut that out and I should have cut this out, this damage. Um, and so far it’s doing okay. It’s doing fine. And then I pruned it and all of this is brand new growth and the leaves look perfect and they look lovely. And at first it was in the shade, full shade, but now um that it’s starting to cool off just a tiny tiny bit. I put it in this part sun location. Um, it likes the heat. So I thought, okay, the afternoon sun it will probably be fine with. And so far it’s it’s you can’t even tell. Like it’s fine. is handling it just fine. So next year this plant I hope is going to be unbelievably gorgeous. But this Codex, I mean just look at that. If you’re a Desert Rose fan, you know, like the Codex is everything. And this honestly I believe it’s a gorgeous one. I’m so proud of that. Let’s see. Moving on. This is the container that I propagate my Limelight hydrangeas in. It has some other things growing in there as well, just cuz it’s a placeholder. It is hard to even know what’s what cuz all of my containers are growing together. So, bear with me. But I have this is eucalyptus given to me by my friend Kendall and it’s doing so well. I think I’m going to have to take that in. I don’t think it’s winter hearty, so I may do that. I have a gamrina glova. I’m trying to find this is a Zenia that I cut way back, but it’s growing back and starting to bud. Um, here are my cutings. Limelight hydrangeanger cutings that I put in here at the beginning of the season. And let’s see. Look, it is flowering for me already. So, this was a cutting, y’all. Do you see that? That was a cutting from my limelight hydrangeanger that was placed um in there in about what late winter early spring when I did my pruning and I did nothing like I just make sure that the soil the soil stays moist but not overly wet and some of them take and some of them don’t. As a matter of fact, a majority of them don’t take but I fill this whole planter up with them and then whatever takes takes and whatever doesn’t doesn’t. It’s already got blooms from a cutting. So, this means that it has quite a good root system. It’s been growing all season. So, at the beginning of next season, I will transplant this into a pot and get that growing or into the ground. I don’t think I’m going to put it in the ground, though. I’m going to keep it in the pot. And I have one more cutting I thought that was growing. Oh, yes. Okay. There are three cutings. You can’t even tell. I get it. But one and then two and then this one is the third. So I have three cutings that made it out of about 12. And actually that’s good for me. I don’t need any more than that. Um and I honestly don’t really need the three. But I love to keep them up because sometimes they die on me and I love to have extras just in case that happens. So the last container that I have right here is blanket flower. It is a perennial. I grew that from seed. I’m so impressed with blanket flower. You can cut them all the way back and they just reflush and reloom and reloom and the blooms are gorgeous and the bees love them and all of the things. And this one’s kind of getting eaten up. Probably spidermitites maybe. I don’t see webs though. I don’t even know. It is It is getting eaten up by something. But I’m just going to let it happen because I still get flowers and the plant is still going and I’m and it’s okay. So, here’s one of those zenyas from um the container I just showed you. So pretty. It’s a state fair zenia, by the way. They just get floppy for me. And this is kind of part sun. Look at Chloe. Oh, your baby. Um they do get a little floppy in part sun. And so, yep, that’s what’s happening. Anyway, this container right here is foxtail fern. And I have um star jasmine that is growing up my pole, which is beautiful. I had one tradant cutting that I put in here. So, that’s growing in there as well. And then I have um the variegated vinka as well that’s growing out here. So, this container is super happy. Oh, yeah. There was an azure lita in here too. This is almost fully shade. It might get one or two hours of sunlight a day. And so that was a this was just an experiment to see if a lea could grow in this shade. And the answer is yes, it can. It’s just not happy. So and it’s very small. Okay, let me show you these containers right here. So this one is just a your normal wax beagonas. And then I do have blackeyed susan vine. This happened earlier in the season. Lots of spidermitites I think and aphids. But this is the new growth on it. And all the new growth up here looks pretty good. So that will flower soon. I have variegated vinka in there as well. That’s not doing that well. I just noticed that. Interesting. Um so that’s a great container. This one is shasta daisies that were given to me by my mother-in-law. She was given Shasta daisies from a Colin County master gardener that’s in her um senior’s group. They play cards every week. And so um anyway, she gave her a lot of them and she gave some of them to me. So I’m growing these. There’s quite a few in here that I will separate and put in my new garden. So that will be fun. And then all of these are my well not all but a lot of these are my Proven Winners direct um plant haul when they had some of their sales going. So they had like 25% off of all hydrangeas um and their plant of the days and things like that. And so I was able to get this one is fire light tidbit. Super excited about that. Again these are going to go in the new garden bed. I have some shady areas in the new garden bed that these will go in. Um, and then this one. Oh, I’m so excited about this one. This is Gatsby pink oakleaf hydrangeanger. Oh my gosh, it’s growing so so well. Lots of new growth. I do have some fungal issues going on because there is some overhead watering over here, but I’m not worried about it. It’s just a a leaf issue. They will shed their leaves and it’ll be fine. This one is Invincible Mini Mauvet and it’s not doing as well. I will say when I got these plants, they were all on the struggle bus. Something happened with FedEx and they really really ruined these plants, but I’ve gotten most of them back on their feet. This one wasn’t helped because it had a caterpillar that was eating it before I realized. And so it does have new growth. I don’t know that it’s going to make it. So, we’ll just have to see. This plant has struggled for sure. And then I have Perfectoundo Fuchsia carpet. This is a aelia. And uh really excited about this one. It’s supposed to be kind of a creeping aelia, like a ground cover aelia. And so, you know, it’s got some new growth. It struggled as well. Like you can see all of this that uh old growth that it but it’s got so much new growth coming up and it’s doing well. This one is so fun, y’all. This is not a very well-known plant, but this is paisley pup dog hobble. And it I can see it. A couple of the leaves got a little bit fried, but this is the new growth. Look at that color of the new growth. It’s absolutely beautiful. And this is a shrub. Um I’ll put the zones that this shrub grows in on the screen. I don’t remember, but I know it’s hardy in our zone. It’s supposed to be evergreen for us as well. It’s going to stay on the smaller side. I think two to three feet by two to three feet. Um, and it does have a bloom that has a nice scent apparently. Um, but it’s not a striking bloom. They’re like little tiny white bells. Ah, it’s Chloe. No, that’s the only problem is I’m trying to keep her away from those. She has broken a couple of these. Um, but anyway, uh, Paisley pup dog hobble. It’s also known as Loth Lothui, I believe. And I’m excited to plant that. It does love the shade or part shade. And then this is new for 2026, fairy trail fresco. I’m so happy to get my hands on one of these. This is one of the newer types of hydrangeas called a cascading hydrangeanger. And it really is meant more for being in a container or a hanging basket. And so I’m not super sure I’m actually going to plant this in the land the landscape. I think I’m gonna plant it in that container at first to see how it does. And if it does well there, then I’m going to put it in my hanging baskets that I can’t seem to keep anything alive in. So I have three hanging baskets on my porch and I have this in mind if it does well and overwinters well for me. So it’s got lots of new growth. It actually looks the best out of all of the plants um that Proven Winners Direct sent me and so really excited about that one. I have just a regular macroofila hydrangeanger that is on the struggle bus a little bit, but it was a cutting that I propagated. And then here are 12 of the um Stella Deoro dlies. And so those are going to be my new garden bed garden border. and uh Stella deoro. They’re just super super tough. Yellow relooming dillies. They’re everywhere. Um used in lots of commercial landscaping. They’re kind of everywhere, but I mean they’re used because they’re so so tough and they they really do take a lot of harsh conditions and keep relooming for you and adding color. So, um yeah. So, that’s what those are. So coming over here, this is the most exciting containers in my opinion. Um that is new. I have plumeriia. Now uh a friend of mine, Peggy. Peggy, if you’re watching, oh my goodness. Here are the babies that you gave me. Here’s the smaller of the plumeriia trees that she gave me. And it just continues to bloom and bloom and bloom and bloom. And then here is the big plumeriia that she gave me. This is 6 feet tall. Lots and lots of blooms. It’s just And the blooms smell so so so good. And it’s actually two pomeriia trees in there, as a matter of fact. Um, and I’m just really happy. These guys kind of went from a part sun location at Peggy’s house to a full sun location at my house. And this one took it like a champ. This one did get a little bit of scorch. See, some of the leaves are scorched a little bit. I gave it some Epsom salt and that seemed to stop the scorch for the most part. So, um, that was a great idea that I picked off of, uh, DFW Plumeriia growers group on Facebook. But there’s my plumeriia and I am so so so happy with it. The only problem is going to be I’ll have to overwinter it in my house. So, that is still yet to be seen how I’m going to do that. Um, I think it’s going to go in my spare bedroom, which used to be my daughter Bailey’s room. She’s in the United States Navy. Um, so, she’s not coming back anytime soon. So, it is likely that uh I will put that guy in a spot in my spare room there and this one as well and overwinter them so I can keep them for next year. And then I do have some containers back here to show you. This is my shade garden bed, but all of the hostas are in containers here. And so some of them are going to sleep. They’re starting to go dormant. And I think it’s just because it’s been so hot. Um, this one is blue elegance hosta. This one is elaboric hosta. Doing really well, by the way. For it being as hot as it has been, it’s doing remarkably well. This one is Shadowland Diamond Lake, I think. Uh, no, I get them mixed up all the time. Shadowland Woola. There might be something going on there because this one seems to be on the struggle bus. Hopefully, it’ll just go dormant and come back nice and strong next year. And then this one is Shadowland Diamond Lake from Proven Winners and doing amazing. It’s just interesting to me how two of them seem to be going dormant early and then the other two are still looking amazing in August. But they grow well in containers in the shade for me. And another exciting thing, I think I will go ahead when it’s cooler and it’s the fall, I will um take these out. I will divide them and put them back. Give them some new soil. A lot of the soil has gone way down. And then put some of the hostas over here in this part. That’s going to be shade. Again, this is going to be the new garden area. By the way, this is my shed that we just recently put in. And so the new garden bed is going to be all around here, but not in the middle because we want to get into that shed. Um, and then one last container back here. Actually, two. This is the limelight hydranger that I told you was in full sun. And I might have killed it. It’s got one piece of growth left. When I scratch it, it’s still green. So, I still have hope, but I know that it could continue to go down in that downwards downward spiral of not living um at any point. So, I moved it back here to the shade kind of hoping to revive it. That didn’t happen. It just continued its downward spiral of shedding all of the leaves. So, we will see if that’s going to live. And then I have um cascading vinka which is kind of no longer blooming because it’s in the shade. I have dicondra. And then I also had purple scavola in there that was doing amazing until I moved it to the shade. And obviously a full sun plant moved to the shade. It died off pretty quickly. Uh it loves that sun. So anyway, that’s that one. And then this is another container that’s actually inside of my garden. Again, the same thing. So, it’s a Limelight hydrangeanger that I’m training into as standard, but I mean, it’s doing a lot better than the other one. The the blooms are fried, and I would expect that. Um, and then down below there is that purple scavola I told you about that was in the other one that died in the shade and cascading vinka. And this one also has dicondra, but not doing as well. Um, this is in the a full sun location, so I’m contemplating just taking that out because I know the limelight hydrangeanger won’t survive there. Um, I just don’t know at this point. I mean, it’s doing okay now, but like next season it might struggle and or even the next season, you know? So, if I know it’s not going to love it there, then I’m going to have to figure something out to go there. So, we’ll just have to see. and stay tuned for my front garden containers. Okay, so hopefully this is enough light for you. I think I will have enough light to go ahead and finish the front containers that I have to show you all. As you can see, I have quite a bit on my front porch, but the majority of them are on this three- tiered planter that I have going on, and I’m pretty happy with all of it. So these are canary wing beonas and I do have a little bit of probably spidermite activity honestly and I have sprayed them and they just keep coming back. It is the time this se this time of year we just have it the pests everywhere and they’re really difficult to get rid of until it just gets to first frost. So we just deal with it as we can. Right. Um this is foxtail fern. It was a little bitty baby and it was on clearance at the beginning of the season. This guy is la with some um I do not know what variety hosta this is, but Stacy, my dear friend, uh gave this to me from her garden, and I’m going to place it in that new garden bread in the shade. So, uh that’s super fun. This is another Canary wing beonia that is huge. It was super tiny to start the season and now it’s just absolutely beautiful. Um, pretty clean. Like I said, I see a tiny bit of spider might activity, but for the most part, it’s pretty clean and it’s just doing really well. This is a Carax I picked up on clearance. It is, what type of carex is it? Ever color Auroro Carrick. Okay. I didn’t think it was that one, but again, I’m going to find a spot in my new garden bed for that. It’s just hanging out here for now. This looks terrible and I know it. This has been in here from since February and so it’s just done. It’s a beonia and just total I I need to get rid of that now. Honestly, this one is a leather leaf fern. Let me get out of the the shadow there. Um it was not doing well to begin the season, but once it start started getting hot, this guy really took off and so that’s doing really well. I have some auga that I picked up on clearance. I’m just kind of here as a placeholder. This is a Proven Winners um kolas. It’s called I think it’s like fishnet stocking. Um it doesn’t have the variegated foliage. That’s a little piece of it, but it’s supposed to be all over the plant like this. And because it’s in mostly shade, it just doesn’t have that for me. This is rainbow kolus. And this guy wilts every single day. It gets watered every day, but wilts in the evening like this. It just it needs to be in a bigger pot, and I know that, but it’s just so late in the season that I’m just kind of done. Um, this is a really awesome kolas. I love this. This is um what is it? Kokoa Rose from Baker’s Creek, I’m pretty sure. And it’s just it took a really long time to get started. And the germination rate was really really terrible, but I did get a few plants from from growing in the beginning of the season and now finally they’re taking off. And I love the color. I love the compact habit of it and it’s just a great colus. I still will grow it again. Um, it just I’ll have to be aware that the whole seed packet will probably only produce a few plants. And then this is another foxtail fern doing amazing. Um, this is a coral bell that I want to put in a different area of the landscape. It’s just staying here for now. And then again, some auga coming over here. These are probably my one of my fave two of my favorite containers that I grow. So, these are two different containers. Believe it or not, it doesn’t look that way, but this one is variegated lace cap hydrangeanger. And it bloomed for me for the first time this past year on its fifth year. Um, it’s beautiful. Just beautiful. But the blooms did kind of fry. I have one that’s still on so you guys can kind of see what they look like if they’re aged. But it was absolutely spectacular covered in these. They were pink earlier in the season. And I just I hope it blooms again next season cuz it was gorgeous. But those leaves anyway. I would grow this plant just for the foliage and hands down it’s one of my favorites. It’s beautiful. And then this one is my huge super old um hydrangeanger macrofila endless summer hydrangeanger. And what you are seeing are what the blooms look like towards the end of the season if you leave them on the plant. they start growing this m you know this magenta color and towards you know October November December they will turn a deep dark magenta color but even right now I absolutely love it’s like green aged to pink and it’s absolutely beautiful and it’s starting to mix in with the lace cap hydrangeanger which is fun and it also is endless summer so it’s getting new blooms as well so really really super fun this guy has been here since 2011, so 14 years, in the same pot. I have not repotted it ever. Um, I think I’m going to this this fall if I get around to it. There’s so many fall projects, so I hope I get around to it. But every year I add compost. I’ve even added uh potting soil. I add soil acidifier and um, you know, chelated iron when I need to. So when it starts looking like this chlorosis right here, I add chelated iron. Like it gets the nutrients that it needs. It gets fertilized twice a year. All of the things. But I do realize it needs to be repotted. I think it’s it’s more prone to this chlorosis the last 2 years than ever before. It’s just showing signs that it really wants to, you know, to be repotted or planted in the landscape. And I’m too scared to plant it in the landscape. I don’t want to lose it. But yeah, you can see this. This is cherosis and I did treat it with chelated iron and it fixed most of the plant but not all of it. And so it I will try my hardest to get this repotted if I can. This is going to be a huge job y’all getting it out of the pot that it’s in because it’s been there for 14 years. I’m not sure that I’ll be able to get it out, but it’s gorgeous and I love it and it’s still doing really well. And coming over here, this is so fun. This is um variegated English ivy and it’s growing up a bamboo like I don’t know trellis of some kind and this stays evergreen. So I love this one because it is evergreen and it looks like this all season long. I don’t want to plant it in the landscape because it will take over but here it looks awesome and it’s um definitely some great winter interest as is this Aelia. This is Oh look. Hi though, bud. Say hi to everybody. Yeah. Are you getting all the bugs? Are you getting all of my bugs for me? Thank you. Thank you so much. I guess a sign of a healthy garden is all of the creatures that live in it, right? You guys saw that huge spider um the orb weaver spider and then all of these um anolles. They are everywhere catching all of my bugs for me. So that is great. But anyway, back to Aelia. This is autumn sunset encore Aelia. This is uh just one year old. I got it for a birthday present last year in October. So, it’s done amazingly well here in this spot. It does get some morning sun and then the rest of the day for the most part it is in the shade. And let’s see if we can find any buds on it yet. Oh, there’s that lizard. I’m sorry to scare you, bud. Let’s see. Oh, I’ve got some whitefly coming back again. Ah, I have sunshine the gustrom that has struggled with whitefly all season long and I’ve been treating it, but it looks like I’ve got to treat it again. It’s getting bad again. But the aelia seems to be untouched by the white flies. So, that’s something that you should know. That’s good to know. I don’t see any buds on this guy yet. Um, that’s the spring bud. So, but soon it will start and it will give me an autumn show and it will be gorgeous. And then this is a Gerber daisy. This is one thing I do want to add to this new garden bed cuz they do really well in part sun and you know almost a shade condition. Um this was one plant last year and it’s blooming for me right now. It’s just wow. It’s just unbelievable. Showing a little bit of signs of cherosis. I did give it some chilated iron and it fixed most of it. So, the new growth is a lot better. Um, but yeah, just love that Gerber daisy. And then I don’t want to skip this one. This planter is super fun. It’s a two-tier planter. It actually has a plant stand inside of it and there’s a plant on top of it. This is Tracantia Zabrina. I will bring this into my house after I use some pest control. Um, I will bring it into my house and overwinter it and then put it out again next spring. It does amazing in this spot. So, and then I have English ivy on the bottom and a little bit of denths that’s starting to bloom again. So, that’s so fun. I love denths. Okay, so just a little bit more containers. But here are three that have done really well. Unfortunately, because it’s the evening time, you can’t see the blooms of this one, but this one is percolane. And during the day these blooms come out and they are spectacular. And then this is moss rose or porchilaka. And so those are some double blooms and they are beautiful. And this is de plant I believe. And so those are actually pretty. Um yeah. So that’s done well. The patunias are on their way out. I’m about to pull them cuz they are just done. And then I have some white salvia that’s doing good. It’s actually doing really well. I love that. And then this container has another blanket flower. This is a more full sun location, so it does really well. I chopped this guy way, way, way back two weeks ago, and it’s already completely flushed out. Uh just an amazing plant, honestly, and it does really well. And it looks so good with this sweet potato vine, this lime sweet potato vine underneath. It just looks really, really good. And then over here I have in a container is Carolina sapphire cyprus. And this plant, oh, I love the smell of it. Some of you might not. It smells um very herbal. I just love it actually. But I love the color the most. And it has evergreen interest. It stays this way all winter long. And it is in a topiary form. I have to go and trim it a little bit. I see. But it’s grown so much since I got it about a year ago. And it will do well here in this container for at least five years. So, we’ll see what happens. It might want to get way, way, way bigger after that. And then we’ll have to see what we’ll do. But for now, it will be fine in this container right there. And then let me show you. Hopefully, it’s not too dark. But let me show you some of the best containers ever. If you live in North Texas and you just want something that’s going to bloom all season long and look beautiful and attract all of the bees and butterflies, then Mistic Spires Blue Salvia is the plant for you. Can you guys see all of the American bumblebees that are on this plant? It’s It’s sunset and these are the bees that are still going during the day. This thing is covered covered with these bumblebees in particular, honeybees a little bit, but bumblebees like all over. Now, one thing that I learned this year is that if you don’t like like this kind of browning of the blooms on the bottom, you can cut all of it off and it will flush back almost immediately with all of these new blooms. See that? So, I’m about to do that. I wanted to film I wanted to film the tour. uh for August before I did that and then I want some September color um to come and be nice and fresh for fall. Um but underneath that I grew cascading vinka and that has done really really well underneath the mistpired salvia. Last year I tried to grow patunias and those just did not work at all. They couldn’t compete with the salvia in any way. And then this is this container is very much the same. This mistic spires had a different growth habit more towards the back. Um, and so that allows the vinka to kind of be more prominent there. Um, but anyway, misticire salvia is such a rock star. There you go. Whoa, be just transferred plants. Okay, well, thanks everybody for joining me for my August 2025 container garden tour. I just absolutely love how things are growing this year. I’m already starting to plan what’s going to go in my containers for next year, which is so fun cuz a lot of this stuff is going to it’s either annuals or they’re perennials that are going to be transplanted in my new garden bed. So anyway, thank you so much for watching. I hope you all have a fabulous day. Bye-bye, everybody.