Hi,container lovers !!
I'll start to post my 2009 containers .
I hope you'll love them.
Tomtom
#1 Delphinium & Antirrhinum
My 2009 container gardening starts !
#2 Collinsia bicolor
#Silene corolata 'Pink Star'
#4 Viola
Tomtom these are all gorgeous!
Thank you gessieviolet for your quick reply.
#5 Pansy
#6 Gathering containers
Love that color contrast in #6!
All are beautiful TomTom -- inspiring me to do some work in the garden. The garden is sadly neglected since I had a few health glitches this year - nothing serious but enough to kick me out of the yard. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful! Wish I had your talent.
Linda
As always Tomtom...your pots are absolutely amazing and I learn so much from you!
Thank you so much for sharing
Kat
Tomtom: Thanks to you, I have to say that I've learned to be so much more delicate with my plantings. We share similar plants but you also have some that I really would love that don't grow in my zone. I've learned a lot from you and your photo's...When I finished this planting, I though about you!
Thank you so much for your inspiration...
Kat
Thank you all for your kindly words.
snowtop,
Take care of yourself ,please. I'm getting just like you myself .
Let's try to take it easy ,shall we.
KatG,
Gorgeous container !!
There are plants and plants I 'm unable to grow because of the climate.
In case my containers are of some help, I coundn't be happier.
#7 white Digitalis and Lobelia
# 8 Lobelia again
#9 Lobelia still again,because Lobelia is my favourite.LOL
# 10 Collinsia and Clematis `Misayo'.
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Very pretty!
Tomtom...I love the lobelia also and every year I plant some. Unfortunately as soon as the humidity comes...they disappear. Same with the delphiniums!
tomtom & katg, thanks for the inspiration!!! I think I need to jam more things in my containers to make them pop.
Wow! Beautiful containers.
TomTom...What is the blue flower in #6 and #9? Your containers are beautiful. I hope to make mine just half as good.
Peg
Peg,
The deep blue flower is lobelia. A favorite of Tomtom's. Quite vivid, isn't it!
I love your containers!
Aguane...Thanks for the answer. I loved the bright blue color. I stopped at the local fruitstand after your reply and was lucky enough to get a basket of the Regatta Midnight Blue lobelia mixed with Nemesia lavender, Verbena cherry red and Blue Dart Juncus inflexus. What a nice surprise for me.
Thanks....Peg
Tomtom, beautiful containers, love the white and blue. I have a new favorite flower, I am going to have to go find lobelia. Really like white flowers.
Thank you all for your compliments.
KatG, Your container is wonderful. I love Delphinium and Lobelia too.
Regrettably they can't keep blooming long in my zone either.
Aguane,
Thank you for your help. Yes that 's Lobelia exactly.
Chesapeake,
Mine is Lobelia ' Midnight Blue' and what you got is exactly the same.
The color is fantastic !!
#11Polemonium and Cosmos
#12 Tulip and viola
Hello Tomtom!
Love your creations. You're an inspiration and very pleasing to watch!
RE pic #12. Tulip and viola.... the background plant... Is that Creeping Wire Vine? If so, I just love that plant! I recently saw it in a topiary.... very nice.
Beautiful containers, Tomtom. I love lobelia, it's a color you can't get from any other plant, but it won't be long until mine is fried. Here's part of my planter-world
And the other side of the patio
Hi Aguane,
yes it is Creeping Wire Vine. We call it `Wire Plant ' here.
How nice to make a topiary of it!
What figure was it ?
lrwells50,
all your containers are gorgeous.
I believe we share the same taste.
#13 Campanula rotundifolia in the papercrete pot.
Nice photos.
Great combo's Irwell!
Kat
Your photos are all so inspirational everyone!
I tried growing most of my annuals from seed indoors this year. Here are a couple of pics. All the seeds were from Swallowtail Gardens, except for the lobelia - I bought that seed off a rack at Home Depot. The red petunias are Ramblin Red Petunias, the verbena are Tuscany violet, and orchid frost. The bacopa is snowtopia and blutopia. The petunias are pink wave petunias. And, I bought a purple calibrachoa plant (I wish I could get seeds!). TomTom's lobelia is so gorgeous that I'm almost embarrassed to post these . . .
Here's a closer pic of my ramblin reds - I can't believe they started from itty bitty seeds.
Here's some lobelia (from seed) with some yellow calibrachoa (bought plant at nursery)
TomTom,
That white and blue photo is just out of this world! What cultivar digitalis is that? And what are the white flowers that you have planted with your lobelia? And how do you get it to grow in such a beautiful sphere shape? I'm in awe of your photos.
Tomtom,
The Creeping Wire Vine topiaries I saw were in the shapes of spheres grown up common standards and also several heart shaped.
The "wire" was wrapped around a stick (bamboo?) then encouraged to cover the sphere (straw?)
HOT DOG!!! this is the thread i've been waiting for!! tom tom you've been an inspiration to a lot of us here on daves...personally, i can't wait to see your new pics every year, i've been waiting for this since march...that pink tulip with the black viola is yummy...#9 the blue lobelia with the white is gorgeous...makes you feel cool just looking at it...
irwells50...i love your frog planter!
dalethegardener...great pic! what is that flower?
Rain Lily
