Gardens - Container Gardening

A cool-coloured autumn container

By: Aldona Satterthwaite

Photography by: Laura Arsie; Designed by Paul Zammit

Pull together plant materials and accessories in shades of green, cream and silver

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This stylish arrangement, in shades of green, creamy white and silver, incorporates many of fall's best-loved plants for containers but in atypical colours that are a cool change from the more common orange, russet and gold.

Plant shopping list (see photo below for placement)

A: 1 variegated English ivy
B: 1 white-and-yellow fall mum (‘Celino' used here)
C: 3 ‘Ice Dance' Carex (1 large, 2 small)
D: 6 ornamental cabbage plants (3 small, 3 large)
E: 1 small emerald cedar (Thuja occidentalis ‘Smaragd')
F: 3 green pumpkins
G: 2 ‘Speckled swan' gourds
H: 2 white pumpkins
I: 2 bunches yellow-twig dogwood branches (Cornus sericea ‘Flaviramea')
J: 2 Curly Kale
K: 2 ‘Cirrus' Dusty Miller (Senecio cineraria ‘Cirrus')