Annuals in Pots Still Looking Good

Homestead Gardens — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 05:47:13 +0000

Here it is Thanksgiving week and I can hardly believe I’m showing off annuals, in pots – still. They’re the container plantings that Homestead Annuals Manager Kerry Kelley helped me with back in April, and that you saw again at mid-summer.

Annuals in Pots

Not all the plants are still here, though – I removed a couple to make room for a red cabbage – because mixing ornamentals and edibles is ever-so practical, right? Except that this cabbage has clearly fed the cabbage loopers and no one else. Next year I’ll try some Bt, or switch to spinach, a fall crop that the loopers disdain like kids and broccoli. But look at those Cali’s, will ya? That’s the nickname for Calibrachoas, which I won’t even try to remember.

Potted Annuals

Some night soon this nonhardy Euphorbia will bite the dust – or I could bring it indoors and use it to doll up some pointsettias. (Photos of that combination coming soon).

Finally, my great new love in potted annuals is this outstanding geranium- the Vancouver Centennial. Still with the stunning foliage, and still blooming its heart out.

Thanks to Kerry for guiding me in my choices of long-lasting plants for the location of honor in my garden – in pots on the front porch. With her help, my horizons have finally expanded beyond petunias and sweet potato vine. As much as I love them – still – she made me see that the cool thing about annuals is trying new ones every year.

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