Flower arrangements are a great way to liven up the look of any corner of the garden. Outdoor flowerpots are practical and make it possible to optimally use even small spaces.
Creating an original flower arrangement is within the power of every gardener. Only if a number of conditions are met, flowers for outdoor flowerpots will look bright, fresh and attractive, bringing aesthetic pleasure and the joy of creation. You just need to let your imagination run wild, choose the right plants that complement each other and, following the advice of experienced gardeners, ensure proper care for them.
How to choose an outdoor pot?
Before you start choosing flowers, you should determine which outdoor flowerpots will suit the style of your garden plot and will favorably emphasize the merits of ornamental plants and compositions from them. The easiest way to purchase flowerpots is at the garden center, where there is a wide selection of ordinary ceramic, metal, stone or wooden pots and flowerpots.
Can be used as a container for garden composition mostunexpected, end-of-life household items, as the most creative flower growers do. Do not forget that flowers for outdoor flowerpots must have the appropriate conditions for growth. Therefore, any flowerpots and other containers used as containers must be stable, retain moisture well and provide drainage.
Most popular flowers for small outdoor flowerpots
As a rule, flowers of one or two or three types are placed in small flowerpots.
Various types of gazania, dimorphotheca, or crystal mesembryanthemum and dwarf ursinia are often used, characterized by bright inflorescences and graceful leaves.
The listed plants are very beautiful inhabitants of the South African regions. These perennial flowers are grown as annuals in pots, carpet beds, low borders and rockeries.
Dimorfoteka, blooming from July to September, is also used as a perennial, for which the plant is transplanted in the fall and placed in a room with good lighting.
Bright flowers for large outdoor flowerpots
Flower arrangements in large flowerpots are made up of leaves and inflorescences of plants of different height, color and shape. At the back wall, if the outdoor flowerpot stands against the wall, or in the center, if it is viewed from all sides, there is a taller plant, which is surrounded by flowers that are approximately half the size.
In the big streetPelargoniums, garden asters and annual dahlias look great in flowerpots.
Experienced flower growers use pansies, undersized marigolds, various varieties of medium height ageratum, beetroot, iberis, vervain and snapdragon (antarrinum large) of dwarf varieties, Douglas limnantes, touchy (balsam), Nemophilus.
In outdoor flowerpots, installed on a dais, beautifully and abundantly blooming flowing flowers are planted - falling begonia, budra, loosestrife, lobelia, equal-leaved bellflower, nasturtium, spotted locust, petunia, ampelous fuchsia, scaevola, tunbergia.
