I sure hope so. There are sometimes changes by the time May gets here.

Which begonia is that Jo Ann?
The combinations are lovely.

You have a lot of diversity JoAnne. I love mixing color and textures. At BHG webite they have container recipes! I love getting new ideas and there you can see how the planter looks before you are out the money! lol

Thats BonFire a trailing begonia I used on a job this summer.It worked so well I want it for myself next season.
I agree about BHG ,I also look at White Flower Farm for ideas.
I dont want to waste money on wrong colors.

I thought it looked familar. I have that one. It is just a baby this year, but I look forward to it being much bigger next year. It is such a great plant.

This is an early photo of the begonia in my clients 2 planters.The red flower in pots is an impatien.
The begonia in the first pix is on the left side near the caladium.They were so full and beautiful by August.


Full view of both planters


This house is huge.The deck was splendiferous if I do say so myself.

"I dont want to waste money on wrong colors."

I don't think there's any such thing as wrong colors of plants and flowers Jo Ann! I love 'em all, in any combination. Mother Nature makes them mix 'n match.

Karen

I admire your planning skills....I'm still trying to recover from a difficult 2012!

Your photos are gorgeous, Jo Ann.

Jo Ann, you sure know how to work magic with containers. Those are beautiful.

Beautiful planters, I just love seeing other peoples combinations. Gives me some great ideas of using plants that I hadn't thought of using in containers before and looking at different color combos. Just loved that Bonfire Begonia this year. We ordered several of them and they were just so great. I saved some seeds so we will see next spring if I can get them to grow.

It's that time of year to think of container combos.Mine will get many revisions befor May.

I wonder how long it takes them to grow from seed?

That is one of the fun parts of winter, like Jo Ann said, all that dreaming and planning of the new creations to be made.

Do you guys buy or plant seeds for your containers? I would like to try the wintersowing thing.

I buy plants or take cuttings of plants that can be propagated that way.
I dont have a light situation for starting seeeds and the only wintersowing I do is for annual poppies.

Many of my annuals come from "plugs". They are very tiny plants that have already been started from seeds. Many just have their first true leaves. I do also start a few things from seeds, cuttings and some plants are picked up at the local nurseries.

Much the same here. I propagate coleus from cuttings, and grow just a few seeds under lights each year. My lighted shelves are small. Most of my seeds, by far, are wintersown.

I buy a few plants, too.

Karen

I start a lot from seed, propagate from cuttings (mostly coleus) and end up buying some as well. I love to use winter-sowing as much as possible for my seed starting as I need my grow lights for tender annuals, mainly herbs and veggies.

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Allison I love the hanging pots. Wonderful way to bright up an area in the yard.

I belong to a container gardening site on facebook with mulemomma and 200+ others and one of them found the picture and posted it, so it free to post. I am getting great ideas for my yard as I'm going to be doing everything in containers or at least 99 % in containers.
Here are some samples of what I'm starting with that they gave me ideas for.
Old toy trucks for planting semps in or out here I'll find something that is seasonal as I think the poor things would freeze in the winter as they are shallow planters.

Havn't decided whether I will cut the seat out and plant in it or just set a pot on the seat and make it look like its coming out of the plant. Any ideas?