Bold Beautiful Containers
Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ in a Minute
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Episode #255 | Original Air Date: February 19, 2021
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Provide eye candy in your landscape with bold, beautiful containers that showcase plants with attractive flowers and foliage.
Use the guideline “thrillers, spillers, and fillers” when choosing plants.
With thrillers, go wild with color. Incorporate bright flowering plants or large, colorful foliage. Ornamental grasses can also work well.
Spillers are plants that fall gracefully over the sides of the containers, and for fillers, consider plants with rounded forms or interesting textures.
Select containers to complement the plants. Use a high-quality potting media, and match plants with similar moisture, soil, and light requirements. Don’t forget - leave room for the plants to grow to their full size!
Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ in a Minute is a production of the University of Florida’s Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ Program, IFAS Extension, and WUFT-FM in cooperation with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
