Flower Container Ideas For Partial Sun

SunPatiens do especially well in punishing summer conditions.

Flower container ideas for partial sun. Determining how much sun or shade your garden receives is key when deciding to plant perennials annuals or shrubs. I created these beautiful planters in shades of green white coral and blue using a few simple long-blooming flowers. Incorporate a few geraniums and marigolds for bright blasts of color all summer long.

Bleeding heart variegated ground ivy and impatiens at BHG. Here for example canna lantana and maidengrass stand up to heat and humidity to look good all summer long. I then planted a combination of Creeping Jenny coral Petunias white.

Here we used a base of evergreens and incorporated caladiums impatiens and a creeping fig. Plenty of flowers including argyranthemum madeira and yellow pansy give it a pretty edge and the ornamental grass stipa tenuissima provides a textural backbone to the whole scheme. Plant in moist well-drained soil.

Some plants prefer full sun while others thrive in partial shade or even full shade. A trendy flower used for garden containers but most gardeners are unaware of its actual benefits. Begonia coleus lamium and creeping charlie at Flower Patch Farmhouse.

Partial shade is defined as a minimum of 3-6 hours of direct sunlight every day. It can be exposed to the direct sun all day with no effects. I added gravel and newspaper to the bottom of my planters to aid with drainage.

To 20 feet or more. They will provide you with a wealth of inspiration and help you. Evergreens are good heat-tolerant addition to a summer container garden.