10 March 2025
Which varieties make the best crapper thrillers , fillers , and spillers
Sure , you could engraft all of your container with terrestrial geranium and dull petunias — but why ? This episode will give you several ideas for more thrilling options like a red banana that gets 6 feet tall in one summer , evergreens that can subsist for year in the same great deal , and technicolor coleus cultivar . With our experts recommendation you ’ll never have to settle for run - of - the - grinder container gardens again .
Expert : Barbara Libner , container garden designer for Ravenna Gardens in Seattle , Washington .

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Steve has never met a coleus he didn’t like, including the colorfully named, ‘Big Red Judy’ (Solenostemon scutellarioides ‘Big Red Judy’).

Although accused of having a lot of “boring” plants on her list, Danielle does love the always impressive ‘Red Abyssinian’ banana (Ensete maurelii ‘Red Abyssinian’).

One plant that both of our hosts can agree makes a great textural container companion is Mexican feather grass (Nassella tenuissima).

The expert guest on this episode, Barbara Libner often bases her designs around an evergreen like upright yew (Cephalotaxus harringtonia ‘Fastigiata’).



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