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rainymountain's Container garden

Garden Type: Container | Sun: Partial Sun | Soil: Combination I'm Organic!

The Container garden consists of a number of containers some of which are ‘permanent’ plantings and some are annual, including this summer tomatoes, eggplants, courgettes, potatoes and runner beans. The permanent plantings include tender perennials such as pelagoniums, agapanthus, crinum and canna. The three latter overwinter in the basement (warmish) where they die back. I water them occasionally to prevent them drying out completely and bring them upstairs into the light in March so that they are growing well by the time they go outside. The pelagoniums join the winter garden upstairs and go into bigger pots in the summer joined by annuals. Other containers which contain a mix of annuals and perennials are murielie and begonias, whose bulbs/corms I save overwinter in paper bags in the basement. These also get started in early Spring.

A camellia in a pot with a Silver Variegated English Holly and Clematis cartmanaii ‘Joe’ also comes indoors over winter.

Remaining outside over winter are planters of tulips or other spring bulbs, a clematis and two evergreens. They are put in bags of leaves for insulation and other leaf bags are put around or on top except for the Juniper ‘Moonglow’ which has a Needlepoint Ivy in its pot and sits on the porch beside the door with its pot wrapt in bubble wrap. The sides of the porch give it additional shelter.

Plantings

  • Juniper squamata Day 42

    Juniper squamata

    Juniperus squamata

    Established on 10 Oct 09 I think that this was bought in 2005 or 06 from...

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  • Tulip Professor Roentgen Day 53

    Tulip Professor Roentgen

    Tulipa

    Sown on 29 Sep 09 Annual container, soil quite sandy + some fish ...

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  • Dahlia Caballero Day 196

    Dahlia Caballero

    Dahlia

    Sown on 09 May 09 Annual containers 3 & 4: Decorative dahlia laye...

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  • Acidanthera murielae Day 196

    Acidanthera murielae

    Acidanthera bicolor

    Sown on 09 May 09 Annual container 5: Planted 9 May 09 Blooming ...

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  • Crinum x powelli Day 196

    Crinum x powelli

    Crinum x powellii

    Established on 09 May 09 Permanent container: Bought this 4-5 years ago...

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  • Begonia Apricot Non-Stop Day 218

    Begonia Apricot Non-Stop

    Begonia x tuberhybrida

    Purchased on 17 Apr 09 This is only just beginning to flower in mid-Se...

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  • Begonia Picotee on Top Day 231

    Begonia Picotee on Top

    Begonia x tuberhybrida

    Purchased on 04 Apr 09 Planted May in a planter along with Apricot Non...

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  • Double Early Tulip 'Monte Carlo'

    Double Early Tulip 'Monte Carlo'

    Tulipa

    Planting Out on 30 Sep 08 Annual container 1. Rose-like with sulphur yell...

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  • Canna Bronzeleaf Wyoming?

    Canna Bronzeleaf Wyoming?

    Canna generalis

    Purchased in May 2007 Bought a couple of years ago, overwintered in p...

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  • Shrubby Beard-Tongue

    Shrubby Beard-Tongue

    Penstemon fructicosus

    Established in May 2007 Permanent container aka ugly container: I seem...

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  • Begonia Red Non-Stop

    Begonia Red Non-Stop

    Begonia x tuberhybrida

    Purchased on 14 Apr 07 This was bought at the same time as the Yellow ...

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  • Begonia Yellow

    Begonia Yellow

    Begonia x tuberhybrida

    Purchased on 04 Apr 07 Bought 2007. What is rather odd is that accordi...

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  • Silver Variegated English Holly

    Silver Variegated English Holly

    Ilex

    Purchased in Nov 2006 Bought at the local supermarket, one of those C...

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  • Camillia 'April Remembered'

    Camillia 'April Remembered'

    Camellia japonica

    Purchased in Feb 2006 I bought this in Vancouver when I was visiting ...

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  • Agapanthus

    Agapanthus

    Agapanthus

    Purchased in 2006 I am not sure where this came from or when, pro...

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  • Clematis carmanaii Joe

    Clematis carmanaii Joe

    Clematis carmanaii

    Established in 2005 This was in an assortment of clematis in little...

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