hey friends this is Jenny with Gardening with Creekside welcome do you have a
spot that needs a big impact but with minimal maintenance well come join me as
I have a solution for you we are here at our nursery in front of our barn and
this has a huge open space and I needed a container that would be big enough to
make a big impact for people when they came into the nursery so I had a great
idea I was inspired by another gardener and I went to the local feed and supply
store here in town and I got this massive livestock water trough it is a
hundred and sixty nine gallons and so it's massive I understand that it's huge
we filled it up with our good old potting soil it took eight bags of 2.8
cubic feet really a lot of dirt in here but I wanted it to be big with lots of
dirt so that these plants would have tons of room for their roots to grow and
just have to be a lot of room to be happy happy happy and clearly it worked
well this is full as you can see of all different types of coleus a plant of
this it was late in this summer and I needed a spot because this area is very
interesting in that it gets all of the first morning sun because the sun comes
up this way but then starting about lunchtime the shade starts to come on it
because of the barn so if it gets full sun up to lunch time and then after
lunch it is incomplete shade all through that afternoon heat coleus was a perfect
plant to go here because these are proven winners in their colorblaze
series and they can do full Sun to full shade this will be an annual planter for
so it will just last us season again I love that because next
spring I can completely switch up the look and go with something different so
let's talk about the plants that we used in here first we used proven winners
freckles coleus love this because it obviously has lots of color variation
you can understand why it has its name freckles so we love that one then
they're proven winners limetime it just brings out this massive brightness that
great lime chartreuse color so pretty and then they're new this year was there
Sedona Sunset and you notice that they all the colors just play off of each
other really well freckles will have that two-tone color
that variation then we have this solid limetime and the solid Sedona sunset so
you it all ties in very nicely together it has gotten huge
I really slammed the coleus in here because it was planted later in this
season and I wanted it to get nice and full for the fall then down here on the
bottom I filled in with a little bit of pop of white with PWs euphorbia this
was diamond delight has that nice tight compact white then we went with good old
asparagus fern I love asparagus fern it brings a different completely different
texture to the container and it's just fun and then buried down
there is proven winners on lemon coral see them again this was later in the
season those lemon corals were nice and big and they even started trailing over
the container so it brings a neat different dimension a different foliage
different texture and color to this whole pot
again this is a massive container here in front of the barn I understand that
some people most people do not have a need for a container this big so just be
inspired you don't have to get 169 gallon water trough at your house maybe
you use something different a smaller container so just be inspired about the
plants that I use the look that it is to make a big impact at your house with
minimal effort because when I planted this all I did was put that slow-release
fertilizer in there and then I just have to water it and bam the plants do all
the work for me and they give me gorgeous color for months and months so
hope you have been inspired by this and that you can take this idea and take it
into your own home and make it your own so I hope you all have a fantastic day
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