Victoria BC has hanging baskets on the downtown lamp posts. The colours are mixed and extravagant. When I first moved here, I tried to use all the flowers that the city horticulturists used in my own containers.
Victoria’s list of flowers in hanging baskets:
Geranium ‘Shirley Claret’
Lamium Galeobdolon ‘Variegatum’
Lobelia ‘Fountain Blue’
Lobelia ‘Sapphire’
Petunia ‘Rose Madness’
Schizanthus ‘Hit Parade’
Tagetes ‘Gnome’
Tagetes ‘Lulu’
Viscaria Oculata ‘Choice mix
After a few years I developed my own style of container garden changing it according to the weather and my location. Right now, I have an eastern exposure and the sun leaves in the early afternoon. I don’t have to worry about watering the plants twice a day in the July heat. On the other hand, the sun loving plants are little slow growing. I grow many perennials and just tuck in some annuals around the edges every spring.
Gentian and annual dahlia. Blue gentian and blue red colour of dahlia harmonize so well.
Golden rod and lysimachia
I like putting shells in the containers, no reason.
Sedum autumn joy and anise hyssop. Fall plants like sedum and golden rod are blooming early.
A basket of white flowers, small carnations, scented geraniums and white geraniums. I am starting to enjoy one colour in one container.
For colour, you can’t beat portulaca. It loves heat and full sun.
Happy gardening all you gardeners out there. A note to those who are “landless peasants” like me, you can grow anything without a tap root in a container.
