good morning everybody this is Noelle from Petitti garden centers and we're at
Eaton on chagrined Boulevard and you can look around and see all this beautiful
color here in the gardens these gardens are award-winning and there's lots and
lots of plants to look at today I wanted to show you this beautiful beautiful
container combinations with the verbena petunias you've got two different colors
here or red and a beautiful blue but this is the centerpiece and what I love
about using this is a tropical plant this is called Croton and the crotons
they are normally what we would use is an indoor house plant for bright light
areas but you can take these tropical plants that are used to a higher light
and you can make them a beautiful beautiful centerpiece or we would say
Thriller in the container garden and then go ahead and fill in with your
filler plants which in this case would really be some petunias and I see a
little bit of Lantana in here too and then go ahead and have your Spiller down
below and that's this beautiful purple verbena so this combination is so
eye-catching really really pretty but very very easy to achieve especially if
you have some sunny containers so we're talking about six or more hours of
sunlight but great outdoors and again great for the pollinators to the
petunias the Lantana and the verbena your butterflies or hummingbirds they
would love that as well I love this combination because it's a very tropical
looking in the middle you have a tricolor what we'd call a quarter line
or kind of like a spike if you will you're all familiar with the spike
plants which is usually a Dracaena and so you've got this beautiful coral color
and then look at this vinca flowering vinca down below this is a great plant
for garden beds also in containers beautiful beautiful filler plant and it
is deer resistant it has a wonderful deer resistance and also great for the Sun we
kind of call this impatient for the Sun just because it
does so so well in that condition the Lantana out on the outside again kind of
adds to this tropical look so that's really really pretty as your Spiller
here and then also this is a type of sedum too right here trailing down and I
want to I want to call it anemone or starfish but I can't remember what it's
called it's got kind of a sea name to it so we're gonna have to find out for you
when we get back also everybody at Eaton you can pick up this wonderful brochure
and it shows you all the different plant combinations here and as we go through
and talk about some of the plants here that are doing so well in the gardens
and in the containers you'll also see some signage there too so you can find
out exactly which plant you'd like to try and grow for yourself too
I wanted to show you this garden over here because I think it's just a lovely
simple combination again for full Sun but you're looking at the flowering
vinca again large flowering and think of their and then look at these little guys
these are kind of new to come on the scene but they're very old fashioned
flower this is called gomphrena or globe flower sometimes they are well known in
the dry flower industry because they can be cut and dried and they'll keep their
shape but this is a beautiful gomphrena looks gorgeous that beautiful violet
violet purple with this kind of changing color vinca there so that's just a
really pretty combination it would work well in a sunny bed or a border it also
work well in a container too I wanted to show you all this combination what I
think the great standout here is the Scaevola or fan flower and if you see
it it's kind of sticking up a little bit spiky has a very unusual sort of fan if
you will of petals but this is a great plant to grow as a filler as a Spiller
really really easy very very tolerant of drought comes from Australia actually so
it does a really really nice job in the heat of the summer and more petunias
down below here but I just love this container the the Blues are beautiful
with touches of pink so that's a nice one there is a
beautiful tropical hibiscus over here this yellow with the red centers and you
can't go wrong with tropical hibiscus either a shrub form or a tree form as a
real beautiful focal point in a container garden so this makes a
beautiful beautiful thriller they're gorgeous red.i the hummingbirds really
really enjoy these plants again this is the tropical hibiscus very very
different from your perennial hibiscus and or your Rose of Sharon they're all
in the same family your Rose of Sharon is a very Hardy shrub or tree form that
you can grow outside year-round your perennial hibiscus comes out a little
bit late usually end of May they start flushing out they start filling out and
then right at around end of July August they'll start producing those huge
pie plate size flowers that are gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous they kind of
die back at towards the end of the season growing season and they're fine
the roots will stay very very active under the ground but this guy is the
true tropical so beautiful beautiful yellow and red tropical hibiscus and
then look at this beautiful color combination down below coral verbena
kind of a cherry petunia and then there's also this really pretty one this
looks like honey to me proven winners grows honey it's just kind of a multi
color blend if you will soft yellows a little bit of pink a little bit of peach
in there so really pretty gorgeous gorgeous combo back here I love this
combo they actually added a miniature Dahlia in this garden bed so you see the
gum front or globe flower again you see that beautiful flowering vinca and then
the mini dahlias they're a burgundy with a white tip they're really really pretty
and again this bud for the most part if you were to grow this in your garden
great pollinator attractants no problem whatsoever
they're also very very good as far as deer resistance is concerned your
dahlias do very well your flowering vinca does very well as far as not
having a lot of deer trouble so really look for
a combination like that if you're if you're having some problems with some
deer browsing okay well everybody thanks for coming to Eton taking a tour with
us today it's absolutely gorgeous area to shop beautiful shops restaurants
wonderful events in this area and like I said come and get some garden
inspiration especially for a perennial planting annual planting in containers
and in your garden to enjoy