Specialty Gardening: never too many plants part 2, 1 by trunnels

trunnels wrote:
Welcome, Pilgrim! It sounds like you know exactly what you are doing! The plants at the bottom of the curved planter are colias and on top are impatiens. This year, I have put the impatiens on the bottom and huge ferns on the top. I like to use lots of impatiens for the coolness effect. Also, caladiums work great in containers and the ones I like best are called Aaron. Here is a picture of Aaron in the ground. You can see how big they get! The begonias under the caladiums are dragon wing. They get huge and are beatiful in containers (they will also take more sun than the regular begonias but do just as well in the shade). I'll post another picture of some different colors of colias.