Sprucing Up Your Tired Winter Containers
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After you watch my video, use this extended list of plants for ideas to help to spruce up your tired looking winter containers.
Structure:
Orange Sedge (Carex testacea)
Wissels Saguro Cypress (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana ‘Wissel’s Saguro’)
Dwarf Alberta Spruce (Picea glauca ‘Conica’)
Standish Yew (Taxus baccata ‘Standishii’)
Lemon Cypress (Cupress macrocarpa ‘Gold Crest’)
New Zealand Flax (Phormium varieties)
Sundance Mexican Mock Orange (Choisya ternata ‘Sundance’)
Foliage:
Blue Fescue (Festuca glauca)
Black Mondo Grass (Ophiopogon planiscapus ‘Nigrescens’)
Coral Bells (Heuchera or Heucherella varieties) Many cool colours to choose from!
Hebe (Hebe varities)
Hens n’ Chicks (Sempervivum varieties) These are very fun to collect
Angelina Stonecrop (Sedum rupestre ‘Angelina’)
Blue Spruce Stonecrop (Sedum rupestre ‘Blue Spruce)
Cape Blanco Stonecrop (Sedum spathulifolium ‘Cape Blanco)
Black Scallop Bugleweed (Ajuga reptans ‘Black Scallop)
Flowers:
Winter Heather (Erica carnea varieties)
Hellebore (Helleborus varieties) Many exciting colours to choose from!
Skimmia (Skimmia japonica dwarf varieties)
Johnny Jump-Ups (Viola varieties)
Primula (Primula acaulis)
Early Bird Pinks (Dianthus ‘Early Bird varieties’)
English daisy (Bellis perennis varieties)
Perriwinkle (Vinca minor)
Wallflower (Erysimum varieties)
