This weekend I added a few more lovelies to the pots. I noticed some space that needed filling. So while I was last in the plant store falling for a rose, I picked up a couple of annuals too.
One thing I love about Proven Winners is their easy summer time grab & go potting packs. Containing a nicely designed scheme of half a dozen plants ready to pop into any container. I mean common! Can they make it any easier for me? Plus I love a bargain, and combo packs are always that! I picked up a pack of assorted white annuals to stuff the final corners out of the urns that flank the doors.
Previously planted in the urns:
- 2 x Miniature roses ‘Hot Tamale’
- 2 x Dracaena Spikes
- 2 x Winter Pansies (yup, my winter Pansies are still alive and well. To top it off I have not dead headed them in months, yet there there are blooming like crazy town! Shhh, don’t tell!)
Added to these pots this weekend:
- 2 x Proven Winners Laguna White
- 2 x Proven Winners Diamond Frost
The rose bushes have lots of buds on them! I’m looking forward to quite a show this month from these pots!
The remaining pair of plugs from the half dozen pack were, Proven Winners Supertunia White which filled helped fill out some pots I was sprucing up for the front patio garden.
I had trouble walking by the Proven Winners Supertunia Pretty Much Picasso at the store that day. I’ve been admiring this beauty in friends baskets & planters all summer. When I found this plant, with it’s strong branches bursting with buds, with only one or two already open, I snapped it up! It should be quite fetching! Bursting with purple blooms from the top shelf of my patio garden. Touched with green! What a fantastic colour combo!
Once potted I got these little gems upstairs. I will probably pot up a few more annual for those patio shelves in the coming days. They are instant colour, especially while I’m waiting for my tomato baskets to start ripening. I’m in need of a little colour up there.
These will do.
Great post! I have not seen these combo packs before but they sound great! The new supertunia is beautiful, I have seen it in magazines and have considered additng it as well. Your containers are looking wonderful.
Laura, I love the color combo of Supertunia Pretty Much Picasso, it will look fabulous when covered in blooms.
@Rebecca thanks! I've seen them at a few of the nurseries. I have never seen them at the large chain stores though.@Keewee I'm really loving it's colours. Then again I'm a huge purple fan! It's a fantastic colour!
Wow, they look great! Nice combination in your urn – my winter pansies are still flowering too (barely…)
Gorgeous. I am so disappointed in my flowers this year. Stupid weather. Remind me to go flower shopping with you next year
@Heather I'm shocked they still are. I chalk it up to the fact the urns are sheltered.@Carrie I'd love the company! This year I waited a little longer to get stuff into the pots. I'm glad I did. Weather being so terrible. Last year wasn't much better. Sure there was sunshine, but too much. By this point last year I had to replace most of my pots not long after planting. BBQ planters, yum!
I'm with Carrie. My plants and vegetables are all doing pretty bad this year with the exception of my sweet peas. Your pots look great. I usually stick one kind of plant in my pots and they end up looking a little forlorn. You obviously have the knack.
@Marilyn hopefully this sunshine sticks around and we end up with a late growing season. At least the cool crops are doing well. Delayed, but well.
Your urns are very lovely. I can't wait to see photos of the mini roses when they come into bloom; you'll have a beautiful display!
Your pots look and sound lovely Laura. I know what you mean about filling in the gaps.
Weird. I don't know what happened to the previous 8 comments. But **poof** now they are gone
@Linda there are lots of buds on them right now! I think it will be quite a show once they come back into bloom!@Melanie that was always my planting downfall in the past. I always left to much space. Now I'm regularly finding holes to stuff more in! I like my pots much better this way!
Beautiful. I haven't had the chance to plant many flowers this year but I can get my fix by looking at your posts. Just beautiful.
@Frugal Gardener your a busy lady lately, what with all that greenhouse/shed building! I think your garden will understand! Stop in anytime!
I like those packs too. You can do a lot with them, and they aren’t too pricey. Glad you fell for another rose. They smell scrumptious.~~Dee