By London garden designer Claudia de Yong. Thinking about planting some containers? Here are some combination ideas for you.
In this first container, Claudia has used a trough. The plants used in and around its sides include:
Allium roseum
Thymus Silver
posie
Hedyotis Michauxii
Cercis Forest pansy
Lavender
Munstead
Ligularia
marie Crawford
Here is another trough planted with a different combination plants.
In this instance, Claudia has used the following plants for the trough and around edge:
Athyrium
nipponicum
Thymus Silver
Posie
Thymus Doone
Valley
Perovskia Blue
Spires
Penstemon Huskers
Red
Alchemilla mollis
Cimicifuga
Mint
Buxus Sempevirens
Creeping Thyme
Pratia
Pendunculata
Now for some planting ideas for simple terracotta pots.
In this terracotta pot, Claudia has used a simple combination of White Violas and Stipa Tenuissima.
And here is another simple white scheme. In this planter Claudia has used a combination of Santolina which she does not allow to flower and white geranium planted together in a terracotta pot.