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What Will Grow in Your Planter?
An amazing range and variety of plants exist in the world and all of them can be adapted to fit in your garden planter. It really depends on what the surrounding environment is where you intend to keep your planter and what type of plant you prefer. There are the shade loving foliage plants which are good for indoors, there are the flowering plants and there are the groundcover and climbing plants which make wonderful accents.
Of the foliage plants some are more adaptable than others; this is the same for flowering plants and groundcover. Use a plant where you feel it works well and where it will get what it needs to survive. The shade lovers do well indoors while the flowering plants need lots of sunlight. You can get sunlight or light to flowering plants indoors by placing their planters next to a sunny window or making use of grow lights. If you make the wrong choice and plant a shade loving plant outdoors that isn’t used to the sunlight you may end up burning the poor thing up and vice versa with the flowering plants.
Following is a list of possible plants that you may enjoy using in your garden planters.
Foliage Plants:
Norfolk Island pine
It’s called a pine but it looks like a fern. This plant is popular amongst florists and it may be popular with you. It likes partial sun, and average room temperature. Watch out, because this one likes to climb.
Japanese Laurel
This is a plant with green shiny leaves that are speckled in white or yellow. They are very attractive and prefer colder temperatures and partial light. These are slow to grow but they will eventually reach heights over five feet
Dwarf Fan Palm
Lovers of the tropical atmosphere will like this palm plant with fan-like leaves. It is compact but it will grow up to five feet tall in a planter. Keep it in slightly cool temperatures around fifty five to sixty five degrees and give it good light.
Flowering Plants:
Azaleas
These pretty seasonals come in a couple varieties. They like their soil to be alkaline and like a cooler temperature between forty and sixty degrees. You can keep the plants over winter in a sunny porch or cellar and they will bloom forth for you when the warm months return.
Oleanders
Add a touch of elegance to the planter and can be kept year round. They do grow over five feet so make sure they’ve got the space. They do like it a little cool between forty and sixty degrees in temperature.
Groundcover:
Spider Plant
The spider plant is an excellent planter vine. Its leaves are long light green slivers with a pale white or yellow stripe down the center. They tend to hang over the edges of the planters and if your lucky they will grow small tufts of baby spider plants that can be split and placed into a new planter. They like partial shade and room temperatures.
Grape Ivy
Lovely darker green vine that is relatively low maintenance as all vines tends to be. It likes the partial shade and room temperatures between sixty five and seventy five degrees.
Kangaroo Vine
This vine has glossy dark green leaves and occasionally produces small clusters of berries. It prefers the full shade and can stand a fifteen degree temperature variance from fifty to sixty five degrees, but will do okay slightly out of that range.
Plants can usually be found at your nearby greenhouse, garden center or from online stores and catalogs. You may even find a good deal on a plant towards the end of the gardening season, especially if you are planning on keeping them indoors during the cold months. |
