My container garden entry!

Iris, glad to see your entry to the container contest. Coleus is looking so attractive. I hope somebody will identify the g&p plant. The sweet potato looks different from what I see here but the lush green leaves catch the eye. The planter with the mixed plants stands best for the competition. Wish you will be the winner.

Sharad

-- Bagwan-- “If someone feels that they had never made a mistake in their life, then it means they have never tried a new thing in their life”.-Albert Einstein

Nice looking planters Iris.The only green and purple I can see is coleus.I think you have two different kinds of coleus there.Am I not looking at the right plant.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

Thanks Bon. I am pleased with the coleus as it was not started until after Easter and yet they are looking nice and full.
The green and purple plant that I can’t remember the name is the green one in the background. When Horsetail gave it to me, she said grew like a coleus, and it does. But where coleus has very small flower spears, this plant has lovely quite large blue flower spears. The leaves are dark green on the top and dark purple underneath. Someone else showed this plant, not too long ago, but I can’t remember who that was and I can’t remember what it was called. It’s terrible to get older and lose your memory, ;)

Thanks for the good wish for me, Sharad.

-- 'To plant a Garden is to believe in Tomorrow'

Iris, your plants look great growing together in those containers. I like the middle one the best; the variety of colors and leaves looks terrific! I can’t ID you plant but I like the way it looks with the coleus.

-- "To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." M. Gandhi

Your container plants look so fresh and beautiful Iris and the photos are really good ones too.

-- Mike the reluctant gardening assistant of Lillian

Your planters look wonderful, Iris. You have such an artistic touch. Well done.

-- jroot ....... Southern Ontario .......... grow zone 5A ...................."Gardening is an exercise in optimism." ....... . . Author Unknown

I think all your planters look lovely.Everything is so healthy and vibrant.

-- Donnie in sunny South Carolina

wow. I’m really impressed at how lush your plants are—from seed, you say!
I must be doing something wrong with my seeds .. the plants aren’t even close to being that big.

Love the half barrel, too ..

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)