Creating High-Drama Container Designs

This gardener uses her design skills and a few cool tricks to make eye-catching container plantings

Today ’s photos come in from Laurel Prothro .

The project start with accumulating unpaid worker hours for my Master Gardener security , I set about and completed the wonderful course too soon this yr with the UT Extension Williamson County Master Gardener program . I am a jewellery designer by trade , so the landscape design comes loose . All the word-painting are from one amazing position : Arrington Vineyards in Arrington , Tennessee . This unbelievable vineyard open in 2007 . The gorgeous hardscape was installed in 2007 , and I do all the container designing .

One of Laurel ’s container designs , mixing annuals and perennial and building superlative with multiple layers of planting .

Another unbelievable container . I love the drama she ’s created by placing the hosta as an elevated centerpiece in the design . Another idea I ’m stealing : compound perennials such as Hosta with the yearbook in a mixed container .

Another view of the container , where you may see how she creates the height , with the Funka in a second container over the low half - barrel .

Another striking container . No efflorescence are involved , but who call for them with that unbelievable foliage?Do your containers need some rehab ? study this for helpful container direction tips .

When you do container design for a winery , you utilise what you have ! Here , corks work an unusual and very coolheaded mulch in the container . It would be great to recreate this at home , though you might postulate to host quite a few parties to accumulate enough corks to do it on any variety of a large weighing machine .

And here , another piece of the winery is put to work in the landscape painting . Jack Daniels whiskey bbl have become secrecy screens for a new seating room area . The barrels were retired after being used to age the vineyard ’s all - Tennessee grape vintage wine .

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