Container Plants For Screened Porch

Plant a cast iron plant aspidistra elatior moonlight caladiums dazzler white impatiens silver ribbon fern asparagus fern korean rock fern and variegated creeping fig.

Container plants for screened porch.

Marigolds a big pot of marigolds provides a lot of. Perilla coleus rex begonia grasses filler plants that will fill around the tall plant. It makes a perfect fast growing screen for privacy. Although it can be a fast spreading menace when grown in the ground bamboo is a dramatic specimen plant when grown in a large container where it can t escape.

With a little work and a lot of inspiration make your porch planters shine. It is brightly striped green and gold and looks spectacular and dramatic either on. Great in the sun easy drought tolerant. Even plants like hosta which are usually focal points in the landscape can be grown in containers.

Try combinations using camellia skimmia sarcococca david s viburnum boxwood holly and yew. Low light plants like astilbe make excellent porch plants for shade. A wonderful way to use shade plants for the porch is in a large container. Hanging coir planters over a bench.

A white container is a perfect base for your shady arrangement. When designing a container for your shade loving plants consider using the thriller filler and spiller method. This is one that all of our plant experts chose as a sun lover. This variegated yucca is slow growing drought tolerant and evergreen making it ideal for a container plant.

Plants for hanging baskets tuberous begonias begonia toberosa and bush violet browallia speciosa work well for hanging baskets on a screened porch that gets dappled sun or bright shade. Pink and yellow flowers in a barrel and watering cans. For summer displays use fatsia or herbal topiaries. The plant gurus say wave petunias are preferred over ordinary petunias because they last into early.

Thriller one tall plant in the middle or back.