Bringing an old planter back to life
with summer blooms
is a good feeling, but
I hope that it holds up
through the season.
I try to choose colors and plants
that will hold up until fall and frost:
red, orange, green and yellow.
The blooms should do fine,
but the old ceramic planter
has a pretty big crack.
For the thriller, I chose a dracaena,
with burgundy leaves.
A big filler is a coleus
with yellow leaves speckled
with bronze and orange.
Another filler is a combination
of petunia and calibrachoa,
trademarked Super Cal
It is not supposed to be
sticky like petunias!
'Goldilocks Rocks', a bidens,
is unknown to me. The
reviews are mixed.
It will be the first
to falter with so much
competition in the planter.
The spillers include
another petunia
trademarked Supertunia
which will mound (fill)
and trail (spill).
And the final spiller
is a Ipomoea batatas
I really wanted the lime green
accent, but it's
a big filler too--
with sweet potatoes!
This planter has all the right
ingredients: plants to take it
into cool weather,
fall colors of cinnamon
and honey, burgundy red,
yellow, orange and bronze.
I have my fingers crossed
that the planter survives
the rising competition--
and doesn't thrill
me with a giant spillover!
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