exposure by Jessica WalliserMy container - garden flora range in reconditeness from the more normal mint and sweet madwort to the kind - of - weird red banana tree and vodoun lily .
I ’ve managed to get most of the vegetable garden planted this past week . The cucumbers are sown ; thetomatoes , Basil the Great and pepper are all settle in ; the white potato vine are snug underground ; and the second sowing of beet are at home in overnice little rows . It find good to get the garden planted , know that in a few short months , we ’ll be up to our elbows in garden goodness . I ca n’t wait !
In addition to arrive the veggies planted , I ’ve also filled my patio containers with a motley of herbs , tropicals , succulent and annuals . I regain some slap-up buy at my local nurseries and it seems that all the plant I overwinter in the garage made it out alive . My favourite new breakthrough is an elephant ear named Mojito . I already have two large greenelephant ear plants that I overwintereach class , but Mojito is different . Its magnanimous leaves are medium greenish and hatch in random , wine - red blotch . It ’s an exciting plant and looks striking in my atomic number 27 - blue ceramic plantation owner . Because I occasionally enjoy the adult potable with the same name , I also constitute some mint in one of my containers . I do n’t dare grow it in the garden , as I know it will take over . Instead I keep it curb to a terra - cotta sight on the concrete patio where it wo n’t run rearing .
Another terrific find was a Tandarra Red banana tree with deep - red leaves . It ’s already 3 feet marvellous and situated in a bombastic , salvia - unripe straight plantation owner . I look forward to run across how grandiloquent it grows by the end of the season . I grade the red banana tree next to my potted fig and a pot of varicoloured agave . What a trio they are ! I love the different foliage textures and colouring together . Who need efflorescence when you have such interesting leaf ?
And yes , just case you are wonder , I do have some “ normal ” plant in my container , too : sweet alyssum , climbing nasturtums ( to tumble over the edges ) , hosta , begonias , verbena and a few other regulars assault out the mix . Then there ’s the list of “ sort of normals : ” Amerindic summer black - eyed Susans , Echiverias , hens and chicks , child ’s bout . And then there ’s the least “ normal ” of them all : the voodoo lily someone gave me a few years back — it ’s truly a plant life that leaves “ normal ” in the detritus !
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