Gardening expert Karl Gercens of Longwood Gardens Inc. in Kennett Square, PA, longwoodgardens.org offers the following suggestions on plants to select for container gardening. Thanks again, Karl.
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WINTER
Gold mop cypress
Irish Yew
Red-twig dogwood
Spanish bayonet
Juniper
Japanese maple
Pussy willow
SUMMER
Fountain grass
Indian buckshot
Angel’s trumpet
Abyssinian banana
Lantana
Coleus
Wave petunia
Sweet potato vine
Wishbone flower
Egyptian Paper plant
Bromeliad
Mescal
New Zealand flax
AUTUMN
Paper-bark maple
Weeping willow
Contorted hazelnut
Crape Myrtle
Burning bush
Boston ivy
Mums
Flowering Kale
Ornamental Grasses
Stonecrop
Goldenrod
Autumn leadwort
False turtle head
Bluebeard
Ironweed
Joe-Pye Weed
Japanese sedge
Hakone grass
Spurge
Coral Bells
Lettuce
ACCENTS
Pine cones
Osage Oranges
Green Walnuts
Crabapple
Rose hips
Gourds
Bird’s Nests
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