What are the best low maintenance plants for pots outside?
A few of our favourite low maintenance plants include Buxus Balls, Cordylines, Eucalyptus, Fatsia Caster Oil, Ornamental Grasses and Palms and each of these plants are hardy and evergreen meaning you will have all year round structure within your garden displays. Best plants for pots all year-round Some plants work well in pots all year round. These include hardy evergreen foliage plants like yucca, English ivy, variegated euonymus and heuchera, and flowering plants like Skimmia japonica and hebes.Some of the most popular low-maintenance outdoor potted plants are purple fountain grass, rose, rosemary, garden sage, winter jasmine, fuchsia, japanese maple, and thyme. At pots, planters & more, you can order many decorative planters for various outdoor spaces.
What are the long lasting flowering plants for pots?
Some of the best varieties for growing in containers are achillea, agapanthus, allium, aquilegia, aster, Astrantia, bergenia, bellflowers, crocosmia, echinacea, geraniums and daylilies. Sun loving coleus and bronze leafed wax begonias may work. Just keep the soil moist. Purple Heart (Setcreasea purpurea), pentas, and four o’clocks are other annuals to consider. For perennials try dwarf Mexican petunia (Ruellia), lilyturf, daylilies, and speedwell (Veronica).There are even herbaceous perennials that will look great in containers in autumn and winter – either from their foliage or their autumnal flowers. Go for the following: Heuchera, Hylotelephium (sedums), Japanese anemones, Liriope muscari, Persicaria (red bistort) and Symphyotrichum (asters, Michaelmas daisies).