Desert Container Garden Designs
Winter Desert Flower Container Garden – Easy Care Design
1 Color EZ Design for a Desert Winter Pot This winter desert pot design is labeled as an easy-care combination because it has three characteristics. “Leave-In Perennial The vine, Star Jasmine can remain in this pot for years, saving you money and time when you don’t have to replace it each season. “Many Options Color” You…
Read MoreGet Potted in a Desert Cottage Garden
Do you like cottage gardens? Have you ever grown one? … in the desert? Cottage gardens are an informal design style with dense plantings using floral, foliage and even edible plants. I would not say it is my style – a little too wild and unorganized for me and my more linear brain. However, the…
Read MoreWinter Color for your Desert Container Garden
Growing up in upstate New York, we had our fair share of snow. As a kid, I loved the snow –- sledding down the high school terraces, building snowmen. You know – typical childhood fun! I yearned for snow days off from school. We’d listen to the radio for school announcements and be disappointed when…
Read MoreShades of Purple for your Winter Desert Pots
A Winter KISS Design for Full Sun in Your Desert Pots (KISS – Keep It Super Simple!) Plant this pot design from the back to front (as pictured) or start with the Osteos in the center for an all-around pot. Why I Love These Plants Osteospermums, Petunias, Pansies and Lobelia provide bold color for your…
Read MoreA Winter KISS Design for Full Sun in Your Desert Pots
This KISS Design ensures plenty of ways to get it right (KISS – Keep It Super Simple!) Looking at this combination of flowers in a winter pot, I realized it does not matter where you place the plants. Since each of the three varieties (in five colors) have a medium upright stature as well as…
Read MoreA Super Simple Winter Desert Container Design
Plant your desert pots with the KISS method Keep It Super Simple! Our center stage of this KISS pot is Calendula. You already have a Calendula plant description article in your premium content folders. Here is the LINK, so you don’t have to go searching. https://potteddesert.com/calendula/ I chose Calendula for this KISS design because it…
Read MoreCanna – A Recipe for your Jumbo Summer Pots
My Love Affair with Canna I’m amazed at the grandeur of Cannas in our summer pots. As I look at photos that I have taken over the years, I smile at the results of successful plantings. I am proud to provide you with a Canna Recipe that you can put in your diary to plant…
Read MoreDesert Pots: Metal Art Overrules Artificial Flowers
Metal Art Overrules Artificial Flowers – That’s my opinion at least. I know it is hard (and hot) to grow flowers in our brutal desert summer. I do know that we CAN grow flourishing flowers in the heat. I have thousands of pictures to prove this. Here are just a few! It CAN take a…
Read MoreDesert Container Garden Design – Summer Success in Yellow
Every Pot Has a Story – Summer Success in Yellow The photo above is in the backyard of one of my very first clients in Oro Valley, let’s call him Mr. N. He had a dozen or so containers, I don’t recall any were above 12” in diameter. He had a sitting wall, filled with…
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Euonymus in Silver and Gold
A Potted Desert Recipe
Perfect Plant for Year-Round Pots in the Desert If you have been around me much at all, you have heard me talk about Euonymus shrubs. With 175 species, there are many to choose from but here in our desert pots, I stick to my favorite two. The “Silver King” Euonymus and the “Golden” Euonymus. Cold…
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