👌🌿❣️ 3 Sophisticated Plant Combos for Pots or Beds

[Music] well i've got a special surprise for you today but first roger and i are both masked up this is my bff roger you guys have met him before but we're outside it's very windy so you can hear us better over the wind we are going to take our masks off and we'll be standing at a good social distance so do our best we'll do our best so roger is a wonderful garden designer we've worked together on different projects before and today i just recently got a little preview that i'm very excited about of some new southern living plant introductions that are going to be coming out next year you guys so i think you can definitely get on a wait list or put them on your wish list for next year because you're definitely going to want some of these definitely there's some cool there's some really cool plants some cool plants and and different uh varieties of things you and i have worked with in the past before but roger is great at styling he is really great at use of color and so i've asked him to help us with some companion plantings for these southern living plants so we've got three different groupings today which would work either in container gardens right or in the ground however containers in the bed or containers in the bed which is a favorite right of yours and mine yeah i may have learned that from you roger so we're going to start over here with some gardenias so roger if you would show us and the light is a little bit variable today you guys so um so hopefully you'll be able to see what we're talking about and because these are brand new i need my cheat sheet roger so this is a foolproof gardenia uh tiny foliage don't you look great it looks a little bit it reminds me a little bit of like a distillium or even a little ollie olive right or um but i love i love the texture of the foliage and anything there slightly even slightly resembles box what i love right okay so this creates fragrant gardens compact easy to grow which is why i think you decided to put them in a pot right right okay one of the things about pot is kind of nice it elevates it a little bit so the fragrance is closer to your yes yes would be great by a door oh great yeah yeah or any place you're going to be walking past on a daily basis or sitting for morning coffee or something like that yeah that had a bit of a breeze and the scent of gardenia yeah i love that you're so right by a on a patio or a terrace where you're really going to be sitting and enjoying it okay roger this because it doesn't have any flowers on it now but it puts out double pure white fragrant blooms in late spring and it re-blooms right importantly through fall so show us oh and it's gonna get three to four feet high three feet wide and it's hardy 2 zone 7a yeah so it sounds like it sounds like a great plant well the gardenias are just so elegant and that white bloom is so pretty yeah you almost don't need any other color with it yeah but i was thinking you know this um asparagus fern the foxtail oh yes would be great just a slightly different texture the new growth is always um is always such a light green as it matures it'll start to cascade down over the pot i love this pale terracotta i like it too with that makes the the dark green foliage really pop and it's just this is such an elegant form and just such a nice neat i mean it's beautiful without any flowers on it but just imagine that and and how many containers do you have in there those are three gallon pots okay okay yeah but based on the size if you wanted to wait a while you could probably do one in here and it would eventually mature to fill this whole pot but you and i are about instant gratification now the other thing is from a cultural standpoint this pot is huge right so you're not going to be a slave to watering and it is just more like a small garden really than a container planting i've got some of these pots in in my garden and um is that real it's real terracotta it is gorgeous you got to be careful with uh freezing make sure it's not sitting directly on soil or directly on concrete yeah i always elevate it with at least like a little quarter inch tile so that it drains and then um i go out and brush mine down with yogurt frequently together it's got some great moss going on yeah it's all about the patina right so um so let's talk a little bit about the needs of any kind of gardenias even these are starting to show some yellowing leaves so i typically use like a holly tone a spoma holly tone to give it the acidic requirements would you do anything special for these as you're potting these up i think that's a good solution and you know just adding a little peat moss in there always helps balance the acidity also helps with moisture control might want to with something like a gardenia in here maybe even mix in some of the moisture control beads that help you know especially you know to get it over the summer right you don't need quite such a frequent watering yeah that's a great idea now if it were me and i thank you too i would probably maybe put two pots of those foxtail ferns in there really cremated in there and then some kind of what would you recommend is like a spilling white some kind of mmm gosh i mean you know these don't you don't want these in full sun in oklahoma other parts of the country they can be in full sun but uh for the summer you know white scibola oh that would be beautiful if it's in um uh not too full of sun uh white variegated ivy would yes yes even some maybe even some white mandevilla yeah kind of cascading over the side would be pretty because i love that classic combination of the green silver dragon if you're in more sun silver dragon variety it won't cascade a lot oh get that bright yeah white variegation on the on the leaves down there all about it i love this combo so you guys this is the the number one new introduction this is foolproof gardenia and of course these same design principles would work with jubilation or any of the southern living gardenias scent amazing gardenia would also work with those but this is a new a new variety that i just love love that tall pot okay so now let's come over here to our second stellar plant now this right here i have in my own garden and i once did a yeah turn it around a little bit so you can see these gorgeous flowers color is just amazing this is the early wonder uh camellia and i even last year my thanksgiving table was centered around this oh really because they were in bloom we have over here roger if you would show them this flower this is alabama beauty that almost looks like gosh like a peony or something i mean it is just really gorgeous and then is this the same yeah alabama yeah alabama now that one is crimson and clover the glass that we just looked at is crimson and clover okay and that's alabama because it's a single and then the alabama beauty is like a little double yeah i love that i i kind of like that single one because it's so unique right it's so unique uh i love that so any of these would work in this combo so talk a little bit about the planter you selected and the plant the plants that would make good marriage partners for it well we've got a substantial pot here and one of the things we've done with this pot is we've cut the bottom of it out so whenever we're doing a larger shrub right that we want to get maximum life out of a lot of times we'll come in and cut the bottom out that way the roots of the plant can just grow down into the into your garden and of course this would be one would be sitting in a bed so you could use this for small trees for japanese maple right you know or big box woods or something like that because any plant in a pot is going to have a limited shelf life yeah at some point five six years down the road maybe it's gonna start getting too root bound and it's not and it's gonna start to crater and you're gonna have to replace it but by cutting the bottom out it will extend the lifeline but this is one of those uh place it where you want it right because it's going to be difficult to move yeah because you don't want to move it do you think you'd have to raise that up on pot feet since it's got a hole cut in the bottom or not uh no but you do um because because you don't want to have a gap that's in the soil you know because those roots are going to be going very common sense but it's good to go ahead and put it maybe on a base of gravel just for better drainage so you don't have moisture trapped at the bottom of that pot when it freezes in the winter roger like me is as enthusiastic about gravel as anyone as anyone i know okay so if if you were going to plant this in here this early wonder gardenia would be brilliant in that i think it would be beautiful i love the scale of it yeah and you know you and i do this both a lot of times the big the big plant doesn't have to be in the center of the pot no it doesn't if this is if if this is is it is open and you can walk around all 360 degrees of it yeah you might want it in the center but if you've got it in front of the house in front of a wall or something then the pla the plant can be positioned at the back yeah of the pot and it gives you so much more room to play with in the front yeah just like a just like a flower arrangement the other thing that i like about this idea because i'm not going to lie i think any kind of camellia in oklahoma is hard to get established it is and i think that placing it in a huge pot like this with basically perfectly kind of artificial conditions that it will probably be easier to get established in a huge pot i wouldn't do it in a small pot no definitely not yeah but i think it might make it easier to get established and really send out root growth in a in a container almost and even in our garden no matter how much we emit or clay soil well and that's the thing with a you want a big enough pot that you're not it's not drying out everything yeah yeah you know you want to be able to water it maybe at the height of the summer maybe twice a week yeah i don't want to be out there watering every day yeah right pots but the other thing to consider i mean it's a it's a pretty plant even when it's not in bloom just the you know the glossy dark green leaves right and so it perfect foil for just about anything but then also taking into consideration when it's blooming um what's going to look good at that point we picked out this let's just put this in the pot and pretend like it's growing in there it'd be a little taller yeah but uh i think this lemon cypress would look great the soft it's not a shiny foliage you've got the beautiful shiny foliage right amelia but this lemon cypress i like the contrast of the colors and here in oklahoma the lemon cypress i've had really good luck with it in pots and containers over the winter okay that's kind of that they tend to crater in the summer and the summer but in the winter so what about um so it for me i kind of like to do that papa bear mama bear baby bear thing with pots so i guess uh you could do a mama bear that had right yeah some of these exactly in it separate and then um and then move them to a much more shaded because tell me what your experience is i found that that my camellias they want protection but they need sun to bloom so it's kind of it's kind of that well i mean definitely protection from the hot yeah protection from the wind is important yeah something with leaf evergreen like yeah but oh my gosh look at these blooms i know is that worth it stewart can you capture look at that and the buds are equally as magnificent i think um and you know with with a plant like this i think this is so stately looking yes almost for me just filling around the pot with this dwarf mondo yes yes because i like i know you know the old adage of the the filth the thrill or the filler and the spiller yeah i've kind of okay i don't care for the spiller a lot of times because i like the architecture of the pot and so when you've got just this beautiful green yes dark green sauce yes yes mondo grass covering that you still see the rim of the pot it's got a strong architectural presence the other thing is is it doesn't detract from the beauty of the plant itself and it makes it look like a garden it makes it look like it is it is literally growing growing out of ground cover and that will be beautiful year-round right as long as it didn't get too much time yes too much sun which is the exact same conditions that the camille that the camellias like watering requirements i think they're really similar uh the other thing that i like is is doing something simple like this versus let's say we had some i don't know pink pansies in here or something i think when you do something simple like that it gives it a more modern feel and a little bit more masculine feel if if you're wanting something sleeker more contemporary uh but it's it's it really is i think well then you mentioned like doing pansies in here at some point digging around these roots is not going to be good for the plants especially something like a camellia or an azalea yeah it's fairly shallow great so that's a great putting an evergreen like an evergreen ground cover in there to keep it solid so you're not messing with the with the digging around the roots of the plant and disturbing them so the idea of the adding complementary colors in another pot nearby i think is that so great i think that's that's right and i i'm glad you pointed that out because something i don't always think about is is the damage you can do by constantly trying to upgrade kind of your pot with with other stuff and i think it takes away from the statuesque grandeur of a magnificent specimen like like uh this is blooming you really don't need competing no no i don't think so either but how gorgeous of an evergreen is that going to be even in the winter time okay so we obviously love that and the alabama beauty but that i tell you that crimson and what was it crimson and clover crimson enclosure hey that is really that is really cool let's take another look at that flower um and i don't roger i know you do this i do it either in your garden journal on your wish list i keep a list of plants they may not be available now but they'll be available next year and i do keep a wish list especially at plants that will perform really well right so okay so let's let's move on now to a little bit a little bit more color so tell us about this combo that you have going going here well this is a fun way of combining plants in different pots so you can move the pots around you know you don't have to replant you can just like have another pot i mean off to the side and when it looks good pull it over here for your grouping and if it starts looking bad you yeah another one and this is another one of the southern living um plant introductions what what you know what it's all i know is it's adorable this little little golden color easy easy touch or a soft touch or something but it's it's a wonderful golden holly it looks like a boxwood doppelganger kind of right or like a like a dwarf pond yeah kind of halfway but yeah a boxwood uh wintergreen boxwood and a and a yopon holly but that color is just great the chartreuse color and this is a color roger has a magnificent garden he is very finicky about the colors that you use you have only you have only yellows whites i've opened it up now oh you've opened it up you have pink in the garden oh you become become more egalitarian but not anymore uh but these are colors that he predominantly uses a lot in his in his landscape i one of my favorite color combos of all time is is blue or purple azure whatever along with chartreuse me too and um roger this does that ideally i think i would have this pot in this grouping a little bit bigger just a little bit more statuettes maybe a little taller and a little taller but this is that mama bear papa bear baby bear i'm just lifting it up on bricks yeah yeah yeah fake it fake it if you can't make it yeah so so talk to me about your plant selections here well i mean i love the azure pansy and then this uh uh purple pansy with the with the blood the blot the darker purple blotch uh is cool and i love this winter bore kale i do too the kind of grayish with the blues is awesome and then it really makes this yellow pop pop and i like the texture of this yeah this is such a tight fine little texture and this is just like an ostrich plume yeah yeah and so um this is one of my favorite kales it's really tough you know a lot of kales and cabbages will crater into december or january this one you usually get tired of it and yank it out like in june yeah now that one is easy to grow from seed i have grown yeah i have grown up from seed several times the other thing that i like about this combination whether you use this winter brewer or you use cabbages or whatever is in the spring if they bloom yellow right then it makes a wonderful uh complement to to this holly so then um and i i love the the way that this speaks to this we've got just a hint of the color that's in this pot in this pot tell me what you would use then and would replace these with in the summertime um for this probably i'd probably do a purple scavola you see the new lavender and purple oh i haven't oh it's it's beautiful uh that would be great in here um maybe some angelonia um yeah i'd probably or even you know i think white would be a great combination here white pentas would be a great great addition to this that would be beautiful and you know the other thing is is if you kind of wanted a different look you could even get another columnar evergreen here that'd be awesome yeah that would be um maybe uh one of the uh nightlights chemist that's a southern living plant or um i just think it could be really pretty but uh but this well that's true so let me not detract from this adorable a little golden holly and the other thing is is because you and i like this color combination we sometimes shortchange i think those primary color lovers who love orange and who love reds and this could be really fabulous too with those really um those colors that stand up a lot more to oklahoma's strong sun well even even for a winter arrangement you know some of that the kind of rose there's a a line of rose colored pansies yes and um that gorgeous orange pansy oh yeah and orange violas you know the texture you know having maybe violas up here and pansies down here the contrast between okay you know it just this brings to mind if you would reach for that mondo grass over there roger i just had an inspiration how fun would it be to use black mondo grass maybe in here with some of those orange violas and orange pansies and that would give you a completely different vibe be perfect for halloween and great into spring and would give a whole different look and a whole different even uh along those lines so they're kind of getting into different light considerations but the some of the black um hellebores oh yeah yeah you know that dark green leaf yes and the black blooms yep well obviously roger roger and i i know we do get carried away i'm sorry this went if this went overly long but some of these new southern living plants are just a great point of inspiration you can do so many things with them roger thank you my friends oh thank you i can't wait to start using some of these in our project oh i know i can't either but make sure some of these are new introductions so put them on your wait list for next year

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Published: Fri Oct 16 2020