Very nice Jo Ann.

She does good work.

"I didnt know 5 plants in a 18 inch container would survive."

JoAnn, this 11" Bloommaster pot takes something like 25 plants !


And this is, I think, a 12" or 14" one


I tend to overstuff...


Karen

The shade garden south view is just breathtaking. You are so far ahead of me it's ridiculous.

Wow Karen!

WOW is right. We are getting a nice rain.Pretty steady for the past 3 hours. I had planted hostas( hand watered) and Agastaches(hand watered) all within the past 2 days. I'm glad I dont have to carry water to the slope again.

Thanks. Downside of stuffed containers- they need lots of food, water, and fussing. I'm using less and less containers. Too much work. In the ground, they are far more self-sufficient.

Karen

It wont be long when containers are all the gardening I will be able to do.
I use 3 plants so they dont get long and lanky.

Especially only three if they are perennials.

It goes for coleus too. Those big ones get tall and lanky even with pinching, by Aughst.

Mine sure do.

Jo Ann, coleus don't get lanky if given enough sun, food, and water. Those stuffed containers I posted above were photos taken in August. Sometimes if they start getting too tall I chop off short, stick in fresh cuttings and let them root in place.

I often have tiny plants blown out of my bloommaster pots before they're well established. I just take fresh cuttings from other coleus and poke into the soil. They grow up

Here's another August container,


How many perennials/container depends on a lot a things
Size of plant to start with
eventual size expected of plant
how long you intend to keep in the container (Years? will you leave it in the pot over winter, or transplant to garden in fall, etc)

Another option, one or two big perennial with a few smaller annuals.

Karen

Well, yes, of course. But what do I know???

Kinda late to the party here, but, uh, Tee? On that Agastache? If it doesn't ship well, whyyyyy do they sell it?

I chop a lot ,use the cuttings in the garden.

lovemyhouse said:Kinda late to the party here, but, uh, Tee? On that Agastache? If it doesn't ship well, whyyyyy do they sell it?

That's kinda what I was wondering. She said she told her DH not to offer that one for sale. I just chuckled ... but they were nice and good about refunding my money. I've never had trouble with Agastaches and I grow a lot of them here. But this one was half-croaked when I got it.

SongofJoy said: Agastache rupestris. I need that one. The one I ordered arrived dead. They did refund the money though. They said it "doesn't ship well". I don't know since that was my only experience with ordering it but I'll try again soon.

Tee,

Order it from High Country Gardens. http://www.highcountrygardens....

That's where I get a lot of my Agastaches from (besides Salvias and a lot of other plants).

The rupestris I have growing in containers have been there for a few years, Spring through Spring. I love it!

They've been surviving the Winters. I even have Agastache 'Color Spires Blue' and Agastache 'Color Spires Pink' surviving a few Winters in containers right now.

Great, Marilyn. I will probably do that. I keep hoping to receive it in a trade but haven't so far.

(hint, hint)