What beautiful container arrangements!
Does it take a lot of thinking or trial and error? How often are you feeding? I am trying to add a few of those.
The ones in ground look beautiful too. The lisianthus is very nice!
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I love making container arrangements. It’s my favorite part. When I started gardening, I would walk around the garden centers and take photos for inspiration, and/ or just outright copy the designs I liked. Now I mostly shop for what looks nice, and build arrangements around that.
I don’t feed that much anymore. In previous years I did. Now I feed when I put the plants into the container, and maybe once or twice later if they are lucky. I do have endless amounts of high quality compost that I combine with potting soil for everything I plant.
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In terms of trial and error , yes 
I have a good sense of what grows well for me now. I know how much to room to leave in a container for things to grow, and I’m working on better visual mix in a given container or area (I plant things very symmetrically and that’s not really very interesting visually.)
And I mostly understand which plants have longevity and which don’t. I plant a lot of “million bells” in containers because it generally performs great for months, and it’s pretty. Same with some of the super tunia petunias . I will say I am an obsessive dead-header and I tell myself that’s part of how I get so much longevity out of my flowering annuals.
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I have million bells in a container (I think; same as calibrocha?), but they aren’t flowering. On the right.
Thinking about feeding, but I don’t have a lot of patience with that. I think I added Osmocote.
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What I’ve found is once there are no more blooms on a branch, that branch is done blooming. It won’t create more. So looking at that I wonder if it was blooming previously, but now it’s spent…?
Also it does tend to give up once it gets really hot.
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“I wonder if it was blooming previously, but now it’s spent…?”
That must be it! Thanks!
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What beautiful gladiolus, one of my favorite flowers.
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Thank you. I love them.
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Pretty flower.
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