How does your garden grow?

My husband picked up these planter barrels for our daughters/daughters-in-law for Mother’s Day. 

Look how quickly they were filled up.

I’d say these blossoms are pretty much perfect!

The master gardeners say you need three things for planters.

Thrillers:  plants with striking colors, textures or shapes that make the arrangement pop.  I like  spiky plants in the center.

Spillers:  trailing or vining plants that spill over the edge of the planter.   Sweet potatoes have  great leaves.

Fillers:  mounded plants that fill in around the other plants, such as begonias, pansies, coleus, seed geraniums, and impatiens.

Who needs thrillers, spillers, and fillers when you have grand kids?

Thanks for visiting!

JoAnn

P.S.  What do you like to put in your planters?

Thanks for the picture, Liz!