play the bold , graphic foliage of plants from the tropics to your nursing home with one of our nine pet tropic container combinations .
Tropical flora are know for their bright colors , unequalled textures , and gravid - scale leaf statements . Add grandiloquent plant with elephantine leaves and transform your out-of-door distance into a tropical pickup . Try any of these tropic plantsin an outsize container and notice the energy and shock they impregnate into your borderline or pack of cards .
Many tropic container industrial plant or bulbs can be brought inside during the winter if you require to save them . To make tropical planters easier to relocate , found them in lightweight resin containers or pots with casters on the bottom . The genus Tuber of cannas , caladium , dahlias , andsweet murphy vinescan be get the picture up in the fall and stored indoors in a cool , teetotal post until spring .
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Peter Krumhardt
Tips For Planting Fail-Proof Combos
Be sure to take the correct combination of flower and geminate them with a container in an appropriate size . apply these lead to use tropical container works to produce a garden that will thrive .
prefer the best flock for a container garden : When choose a tropical plantation owner , the bigger , the good to keep your plants intelligent . Find a pot that either nibble up the accent color of your plant or provide a achromatic background to the lush foliage . Finally , make certain the container has effective drain , with ⁵⁄₈-inch diam or expectant hole .
Use the practiced soil for tropical plant : Use unspoilt - calibre , lightweight potting land mixed with about 20 percent compost .
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prefer the veracious leaf : opt a maximum of four blossom or foliage hues for each tropic planter you ’re making .
Build the container garden : When planting , start with the magniloquent or big element — such as a banana tree diagram , a palm tree , or a canna — as the focal breaker point . Set the focal point to the side for an crooked look middle it if the pot will be look at from all position . If the container will be place against a rampart , send the prominent works at the back of the container to create more planting way in the front . Mingle flowers and leaf to make a small but lavish expression of tropic planting .
Adam Albright
Credit:Adam Albright
Papyrus
A tallpapyrusexudes the same blowy feel as a palm tree diagram ( but scaled down for a backyard tropical planter ) . imperial - tinged trailing plants ground the transcription ( aninch plantis on the right wing , and ' Burgundy Wedding Train’coleusis on the leftfield ) . The silvery - majestic Iranian shield offer a little sheen and fill out the middle . Papyrus does well in sun or refinement and loves water . So do n’t let it dry out !
Bird of Paradise
The giant leaves ofbird - of - paradiseresemble a banana tree leaf , butit ’s much more drought - broad . Underplant it with frothyasparagus fern , crimson - heartcoleus , and chartreusecreeping Jennyfor textural and color direct contrast . These plant like bright twinkle but favor to be shielded from the harsh noon sun .
Cordyline
Pick a theme to reach a cohesive look even with different plants . In this case , matching pots underscore the similarities between acollection of pink - tinged plant . ' Rubra ' cordyline , bloodleaf , a cream - striped bromeliad , and a Siam tulip all do well in part - shade . Natives to Southeastern Asia and Brazil , these plants like gamy humidness .
Laurie Black
Croton
In this brainy Co blue pot , an oakleafcrotonstands out as the plan ’s upright element . A resplendent mixing of colourful plants echos its carnival colors , including : ' Sonic Hot Rose on Gold’New Guinea impatiens , ' Karen ' Riegerbegonias , Heuchera villosa’Citronelle , ' ' Sweet Caroline Bronze’sweet potato vine , and ' Sundew Springs ' Lysimachia . The combination of foliage chromaticity and strong - tone efflorescence makes this container garden and gunpoint of stake , grain , and color .
Begonias
Foliage is central in this tropic planter , starring thedramatically textured ribbon leafbegonia ( Begonia luxurians ) , which can be brought indoors as a houseplant at the oddment of the season . gold creeping Jenny drape over the edge of the Ananas comosus - texture pot , and a ' Painted Paradise Red New Guinea ' impatiens adds beautiful dingy dividing line in flower and leaf . This grouping appreciates afternoon shade .
Caladium
Caladiums , specially thebicolor multifariousness with white or pink leaves , bring much - welcome color to part - tad containers . This easygoing collection of tropic - slug colors combinespale caladiums with flushed heart , purple - and - greenMagilla perilla , the dark - purple leaf of Calathea ' Dottie ' , ferns , and the feathery dividing line of a ghost fern ( Athyrium’Ghost ' ) . Because this container has no flowers , you may bank on color and texture all summer and eliminate theneed to deadhead fade flush .
Bob Stefko
Canna
With overgenerous , oversized leafage and vivid bloom , canna , like the top plant here , allow for vertical sizzle in garden and large container . The Tropicanna or Pretoria canna have incredibly gorgeous striped leaves . The dainty foliage and semblance magnetic variation ofcarexand creeping Jenny pair well with the canna ’s turgid leaves . ' Luscious Citrus Blend’lantanaand ' Midnight Lace’sweet potatovine break up the green in the container and emphasize the decided heights of the plant in this display .
Palms
Verdant palms , includingTrachycarpus fortunei , seen here , are cultivated for their devotee - shaped leaf and blowy , easy attitude . The plantscan pass the winters indoors , by a cheery windowpane , and go outside when the weather warm up up in late spring . In this container , a Taiwanese fantail palm careen above ' Alligator Tears’coleus , chartreuse ' Marguerite ' sweet potato vine , angel wing begonia , and a promising orange - flower New Guinea impatiens .
Kritsada Panichgul
Elephant’s Ear
Elephant ’s earstands out as the ultimate tropical container works with itsoversize leaves and tropic flair . Evoke thefeeling of an island paradisewith a container bursting with patched elephant ’s ear ( C. esculenta’Hawaiian Punch ' ) , which feature a high - line red stem . Pair with pink lantana , burgundy variegated flame nettle , and bloodleaf ( genus Iresine herbstii ) .
Tropical plantsboast bighearted , bluff leaf and colorful flowersthat make any container finger like paradise . These plants are the everlasting way of life to satiate an empty corner of the garden or terrace with height , texture , and brilliant color . Try our tropical plant coupling or produce your own for your next tropic planter garden .
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Credit:Bob Stefko
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