Color Palettes for Containers

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Color Palette

🎨   Green Copper Patina - verdigris and terracotta 

Pulling the turquoise, aquamarine, teal, cobalt blue, terracotta, and hot pink (think Lily Pulitzer) from mid-century modern, Bohemian, Morocaan, Miami's South Beach,  or southwest color palettes I hope to blend a pleasing color palette to harmonize the patio with the natural environment. I found the designer justina blakeney, and she uses a Bohemian style and her color palette is full of the right shades. She incorporates ferns, tropical plants and succulents in her designs.

 

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Blue and green shades used in South Beach, Florida on a sign from our Galveston trip. I found this at the At Home store (as well as the 2 cigar pots). They have an entire beach themed section.  The green cigar pots give color as well as height to the corner and should add interest, whether planted or not.  

YEAR 1  

currently working on three container pots to lighten a corner on the patio. So, this is a post about not just shade plants, but the process of dressing the entire patio.  As several people in our area are painting their houses to give them a fresh look I am fighting that urge and trying to work with the terra cotta and burnt sienna brick shades. Terra cotta pots, small teak tables, and a copper patina glaze on the cigar shaped pots are some of the colors I am using for a beach themed palette. The beach theme is perfectly suited to our weather this spring!

Pot 1: Caladum, pink impatens, Euphorbia "White Manaus", and Silver Falls™ - Dichondra argentea

Pot 2: Dusty miller "New Look", Heuchera 'Carnival watermelon",  Lamium "White Nancy"

Pot 3: (incomplete) beginning to emerge Purple spiderwort  (tradescantia pallida 'Purple Heart', aka.  scadeant pallida ), Sweet potato, native violet

    

Photo:  Jeanette Hyden

  

Gardening is a journey............

              My containers, in the shade are moved to a part sun spot of the patio.

YEAR 2

Aloe, in the middle pot, is one of the easiest plants to grow in north Central Texas. Aloe can take on all the characteristics of height, fill and spill. 

I have tried many plants. Last year, many of the plants from the nursery did well. I followed the rules of container planting, use a thrill plant for height; a draping plant for spill; and a fill plant for continuity. Thrill, Fill, Spill. This year, trying to make-do with plants I had on hand, I can share the problems and the surprises I have found pleasing. Tall pots, with small openings take well to healthy plants placed inside while remaining in their plastic pot. That said, the beautiful fern that I had in a pot became rootbound as well as becoming the home of my tiny nemesis, the fire ant. The roots on the fern are now untangled, split, trimmed and rerouted. You can't see but the fern has small new fronds arising from the center. I like the Miracle-gro potting mix soil with water crystals so the plants have a chance to thrive in the heat.

The third container has been a nursery for out of place Texas native plants that pop up in the yard or are out of place. The wild violet loves the shade. Penstemon has flowered and produced seed. There are non-natives in this pot including purple basil (it self-seeds everywhere) and the extremely heat tolerant purple heart (Tradescantia pallida 'Purpurea'). 

Year 3

Planted with Wave petunia, Wave vinca, and sweet potato vine. The petunia is for spectacular show in the spring and early summer and when the petunia starts to fade due to heat the vinca and sweet potato come on full force.

🎨 Red, White, and Blue Color Palette

Try these Texas natives

Resources for Containers and Pots:                             

On-line.       

Kimball and Bean, Illinois https://kimballandbean.com

Barbara Israel Antique Garden Ornaments

https://www.bi-gardenantiques.com/Home.aspx

Architectural Pottery

https://architecturalpottery.com/

David Cressey Pottery

https://www.craftinamerica.org/artist/david-cressey

Robert Maxwell Pottery

http://www.robertmaxwellceramics.net/1a_Introduction.html

Laggards Tacket Pottery

https://lagardotackett.com/

John Follis Pottery

Rex Goode Pottery

Marilyn Kay Austin Pottery

Paul Cobb Pottery

https://baetanical.com/

Katie Lauffenburger.   https://www.katherinehackl.com/

http://firewhenreadypottery.com/2021/05/water-etching-with-catherine-tweedie/

DALLAS

Dallas Farmers Market 

920 S Harwood St. 

Dallas, TX

Amigoes Pottery

Dallas, Mequite and Plano

1915 Cadiz St., Dallas, 75201 

214-752-2281

www.amigospottery.com

Redenta's

• 2001 Skillman St.
• Dallas, 75206
• 214-823-9421
• www.redentas.com
• 100 Riveredge Dr.
• Dallas, 75207 
• 214-872-2775  

Pitte Architecture

318 Cole St. Dallas, TX 75207

https://pittetarch.com/

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• FORT WORTH
  Amigo's Pots & Crafts
  1117 N Main St
  Fort Worth, TX
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• NURSERIES,  HOME IMPROVEMENT, and SPECIALTY

  Calloway's Nursery get on their mailing list to receive birthday coupon and notices of weekly discount specials.

  Home Goods, seasonal

  Nebraska Furniture Outlet, seasonal

  Canton, TX

  Traders Village

  Feed stores

  Marshall's Grainery

  The Home Depot

  Lowe's

  Costco, seasonal

  Sam's, seasonal

  T. J. Maxx

  Marshall's

  At Home (formerly Garden Ridge)
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• MAKE YOUR OWN

  The ceramicshops.com
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• ESTATE, MOVING SALES

  Attics to Basements, newsletter 

  Janelle Stone, newsletter

  Craigslist

ITALY

Pesci Giorgio e Figli

Francesco Del Re, Florence, Italy

Masini

Landscape Architecture

Impruneta terra cotta

THE world’s finest terra cotta planters come from Impruneta, a small village nestled in the Tuscan hills a few kilometers from Florence, Italy? Due the fact that the Tuscan clay is naturally rich in iron, copper, calcium, and aluminum, the town has been well known for its exceptional quality terracotta and craftsmanship for centuries. Hard gray earth is mined from the surrounding hills, ground to a powder, and mixed with water to make this coarse bodied clay. Subsequently it develops its renown pale, terracotta color after the firing process and is able to withstand extreme temperatures.

Galestro Clay for Italian terracotta pottery from Terrecotte San Rocco. High quality clay supplied by Colorobbia.

All of the high quality, long lasting and frost proof terra cotta pottery found in Italy uses GalestroClay. Made with 100% Galestro clay by Colorobbia of Montelupo, Italy, and the largest Terracotta manufacturer in the world. 

Hundreds of rustic clay pots are stacked high into the  at the Amiskygos Pottery outdoor lot near  farmers market. Owners Benito and Elsa Reyna have beselling pots, fountains, talavera (the colorful hanainted ceramics), outdoor statueen margarita glasses for 12 years at that spot. They also have a location in Plano. Mostly they sell to designers, landscapers and apartment complexes, but individuals also brave the heat for the good deals. The Reynas own the factory that produces the rustic pottery in Tonala, Mexico, so the cost stays low. They sell everything from a five-tiered garden fountain for $1,000 to a small pot for a house plant for under  

Dallas potter David Day throws traditional terra cotta flower pots, whitewashed and stamped with their weight and city of origin (Dallas), ranging from one and a half to 12 pounds per pot in a variety of classical shapes. The whitewash gives them an especially timeless aura. Day learned his craft as a demonstration potter t Old City Park, then moved to the Cedars and set up his own full-scale studio. He works now at what he calls a "real job" during the week but continues to throw pots in his spare  on Fairmount where Uncommon Market did business for 40 years, you're in for a big surprise. 

References.                                             

Hessenberg, Karin. Ceramics for Gardens & Landscapes. London: A & C Black, 2000. Print.

Musgrave, Toby. Courtyard Gardens: Imaginative Ideas for Outdoor Living. London: Jacqui Small, 2000. Print.

Morris, Alistair. Antiques from the Garden. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Garden Art Press, 1999. Print.

Hankinson, Moira. Garden Ornaments. Gloucester, MA: Rockport Publishers, 2001. Print.

Hankinson, Moira. Garden Ornaments. Gloucester, MA: Rockport Publishers, 2001. Print.

Hankinson, Moira. Garden Ornaments. Gloucester, MA: Rockport Publishers, 2001. Print.

Baker, Martha, Chuck Baker, and Anne M. Cloutier. Garden Ornaments: A Stylish Guide to Decorating Your Garden. New York: Clarkson Potter, 1999. Print.

Strong, Roy. Ornament in the Small Garden. Willowdale, Ont: Firefly Books, 2002. Print.

Ornements De Jardins. Paris: L'es Editions du Carousel, 1999. Print.

Pincas, Stephane. Versailles: The History of the Gardens and Their Sculpture. New York, N.Y: Thames and Hudson, 1996. Print.

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