Autumn Containers

Do you all have an Autumn show of plants in your containters?

Just wondering ,have emptied most of my planters.

Going on hoiday this week may be to late by the time we come back.

 

I have quite a lot of containers with things that flower for a long time - well into the autumn (end October). They are generally tender perennials, such as Fuschias, Pelargoniums, Argyranthemums, Dahlias, Osteopermum. I find these very good value.

I am also experimenting this year with some Salvias, mostly grown from seed. Many Salvias will flower from now till the frosts. Salvia microphylla, S greggii, S 'Mystic Spires', S Guarantica, S Bletharophylla, S Coccinea.

 

hi scotkart i have put winter pansy and wallflower in mine

 

Sounds nice and cheery high kype nice to see a photo.

 

you have to have some cyclamen, even without flower leaves are lovely.

I have a pot with a hedichium on the terrace and have found under it cyclamen have self seeded, they look lovely.

 

Can anyone recommend where I can buy hardy cyclamen please.

 

Re: Hardy cyclamen, the garden centres are full of them at the moment, you should have no trouble finding them.

My containers are all looking a bit sad at the moment :( I just filled up the gaps with some nice blue and white pansies but they're not flowering much yet.

 

Sparkle garden centre by me have plenty house plant cyclament but no hardy.

I think I am going to order online.

 

really? I got some at B&Q at the weekend.

 

I have some seedlings potted up if you are stuck, but they are small.

 

The nursery that I work at have hardy cyclamen, a bit too far away for you, I realise, but we have them every year so I'm sure they shouldn't be too difficult to locate locally.
In our winter containers we use mini shrubs (we buy them in as small shrubs for containers, but they are also sold at this size too), such as euonymous, hebe, lonicera,also a really nice blue grass that doesn't disappear in winter(can't think of it's name).Small ivies,cyclamen, pansies. Also mini conifers (great for the centres)and we also plant miniture tulips , daffs and crocus to come through in the spring. Hope this gives you some ideas to think about.