Low light doesn’t have to cramp your creativity or limit your plant choices? You can still create wonderful shady garden containers. For formal containers , success depends upon a careful marriage of pot and plants. This sophisticated style calls for restraint in color, embellishment, and plants. Informal designs, on the other hand, can range from fun and frilly to more humble in nature. The choice of pots and their contents will vary according to the specific look you want. Unglazed containers offer the ideal starting point for woodland-inspired containers because they often come in earth tones, whereas other rustic designs can incorporate pastels or bold color schemes, colored ceramic containers, or simple wooden barrels. Look at the ideas below and decorate your garden with these stylish containers!
1. ‘Green Mountain’ boxwood
2. ‘Tempo White’ impatiens
3. Variegated Swedish ivy
1. Dwarf golden yew
2. ‘El Brighto’ coleus
3. ‘All Gold’ Japanese forest grass
1. Porcupine grass
2. ‘Gartenmeister Bonstedt’ fuchsia
3. Stained Glassworks Big Blonde coleus
4. Sunbini sanvitalia
5. ‘Fortune Yellow Shades’ tuberous begonia
6. ‘Tiny Mice’ bat-faced cuphea
7. Trailing vinca
8. Variegated Swedish ivy
1. ‘Black Magic’ elephant’s ear
2. Molten Lava oxalis
3. Chameleon plant
4. Black mondo grass
1. ‘Benitochiba’ begonia
2. Gold Coast English holly
3. Persian shield
4. ‘Purple Queen’ purple heart
5. ‘Fortune Pink’ tuberous begonia
6. Golden trailing spikemoss
7. Mexican feather grass
8. Blue Showers™ bacopa
1. Rough bark maple
2. ‘Aureola’ Japanese forest grass
3. Perennial impatiens
4. Japanese blood grass
5. ‘Crow Feather’ foam flower
6. ‘Regal Splendor’ hosta
7. Himalayan maidenhair fern
1. ‘Black Magic’ ti tree
2. ‘Silver Falls’ dichondraRead more: http://www.finegardening.com/stylish-shady-containers#ixzz41aWSjq4f