5 FUN IDEAS FOR YOUR CONTAINERS THIS SPRING
Planting containers every spring is a fun and fast way to add some color and style to your yard early in the season. But it’s easy to fall into the same patterns and plant the same types of things every year. There’s always a place for reliable stalwarts, but why not try some new container planting ideas in 2021?
Here are 5 different ideas you can incorporate into your container planting this spring to jazz things up a bit!
1. Get creative with the type of container you plant in. Consider planting in something like a basket, barrel, teapot, birdcage, pitcher or jug, or any other container that could hold some plants and soil. A unique eye-catching container on your patio adds personality and originality to your planting. Keep your eyes open at antique shops and thrift stores for fun containers.
2. Force some spring branches to bloom early, and add them to your planters. A planter full of pansies, hyacinths, tulips, or daffodils is beautiful, but you can add more visual interest and texture. If you prune a few branches from spring-flowering trees or shrubs a few weeks before you want to start your planters, you can force them to bloom early indoors and then add them into your planters, poking the ends right down into the soil, for extra height, color, and texture. Trimmed branches of pussy willows are also a beautiful addition. You can also add other interesting elements to planters like colored twigs or birch poles.
3. Choose high-contrast color combinations to delight viewers. After a dreary winter, spring is all about waking up your yard with bright, cheerful colors. Go for vibrant hues and choose contrasting combinations to really catch the eye and make people smile. Complementary color schemes like purple and yellow, red and dark green, blue and orange, and pink and bright green are attractive and dramatic.
4. Work with multiple textures. Many of the flowers we associate with spring, like tulips, daffodils, and hyacinths, have similar sword-shaped leaves. Add more texture to create more visual interest and extend the season of your spring planters. Try adding plants with more delicate textures, different shaped leaves, and in different color shades. Try adding plants like ferns, alyssum, licorice plant, sweet potato vines, vinca vine, thunbergia, or creeping Jenny for more texture.
5. Add a structural element like an obelisk. Adding a sculptural frame of some sort, like a metal or wooden obelisk, adds elegance and height to your planters now and gives climbing plants, such as thunbergia or sweet potato vine, support for the rest of the season. Later in spring, you can swap out some of those spring plants with filler or spiller plants around the base for a whole new style.
Come by Dammanns Garden Co. and pick up everything you’ll need for spring planters, from containers to obelisks, plants, and soil. We also carry plenty of fun pre-designed planters, put together by our creative staff, to help inspire your own spring planting style this year!