5 Thrilling Container Components
Adding height with pizzazz!
Angelface® Blue Angelonia
Summer Snapdragon
This easy care plant enjoys hot, humid summers. It blooms all season long with silvery lavender flowers on tall spikes, and won’t need to be deadheaded to keep flowering all summer. The unique color pairs beautifully with pastel pinks and silvers that are trending in gardens.
18-30” tall, full sun. annual
More Angelface® options:Angelface® Perfectly Pink, Wedgwood Blue II, Angelface® White
Truffula™ Pink Gomphrena
Globe Amaranth
Full, bushy plants become covered in hot pink, cotton ball-shaped blossoms that pollinators adore. It thrives in heat and humidity, and handles drought once its roots are established. Grow it in large containers or in the landscape where it will shine brightly from spring into fall.
If you want to see pollinators in your garden, plant this salvia. Commonly found only with purple flowers, this revolutionary new variety bears large, intense fuchsia flowers with black bracts. Their deep throats hold plenty of nectar for your favorite winged creatures. It forms a bushy, upright clump of deep green foliage.
24-36” tall, part sun to sun, annual
Rockin’® Deep Purple is another great option.
ColorBlaze® Torchlight™ Solenostemon
Coleus
This flashy new coleus will brighten up container recipes and landscapes in sun and shade with its vibrantly patterned foliage. It is a robust coleus that forms an impressive clump. Grow it in large containers as a thriller or filler, or mass it in the landscape for low maintenance.
24-34” tall, sun or shade, annual
Graceful Grasses® Prince Tut® Cyperus
Dwarf Egyptian Papyrus
A nicely compact form of Egyptian Papyrus, about half the height of King Tut, but with the same large poms on the ends of the stems. Fun and interesting, without being overwhelmingly huge.
18-30” tall, part sun to sun, annual
More Graceful Grasses® Cyperus options
