Roses -

Numerous types of roses are suitable for containers. Floribundas are more floriferous than hybrid teas and can be employed as low hedges or in groupings. On patios and terraces include hybrid teas for color, shape, and scent if you are able to tolerate the spraying, etc.

Where hardiness is a question, store in a cool location in wintertime, such as in a garage or enclosed breezeway. In pots and window boxes grow the very pleasing miniatures.

Rhododendrons -

Wide, lustrous, evergreen leaves and colorful blossoms in red, rose, pink, purple, or white. Render sunlight for a few hours each day for more full-bodied bloom. In winter, place in a sheltered position to ward off wind burning. Rhododendrons require a peaty, humus, acidic soil and a good deal of water.

Spice Bush -

Moisture-loving, with small, yellow, pungent flower bunches in early springtime. The leaves opening later appear sizeable, refined, and fragrant.

Summer Sweet or Clethra -

Intensely fragrant, white or pink spikes come out during a few weeks in summertime. Render an acidic soil and a great deal of water.

Viburnums -

A reliable group with appealing leaves, white blossom clusters (some scented as V. carlesi and carlephalum), and colorful berries. The large double file vi-burnum has flat flower heads along horizontal branches. The Japanese snowball is a showy double form.

Tender Shrubs -

Tender shrubs camellias, gardenias, lemons, and oleanders-are essential in the container garden. These are merely a few of the numerous possibilities.

Camellias -

Outstanding evergreen shrubs for containers. Acid-loving, they demand wintertime shelter in the North. Where hardy, tubbed plants offer accent at doorways and on patios. Waxy blooms in assorted colors appear from autumn through springtime against glossy, dark dark-green leaves.

Chinese Hibiscus -

Colorful favorites in Florida, Southern California, and Hawaii, with glossy, heart-shaped, coarse-grained leaves and striking hollyhock-like flowers in pink and rose, white, peach, orange, and yellow, single and double. Plants can withstand heavy pruning.

Citrus -

Numerous shrubby kinds, all favorable for containers, they can be cultivated as trees or shrubs. In Europe, oranges and lemons are decorative features of estate and castle gardens. Small types appear enchanting in pots.

Hollies -

Various tender varieties, suchlike the evergreen Chinese, Dahoon, and Yunnan hollies, are appealing for both leaves and fruits.

Holly Osmanthus -

A choice evergreen plant with shiny leaves and perfumed yellow-green blooms. Suitable for low, neatly cropped hedges. Take into consideration the variegated form and the variety, Fortune's Osmanthus, with more prominent leaves getting to four inches. Essential for containers in the South and on the West Coast.

Hydrangeas -

Fine for tubs, these plants feature huge, splashy, durable flowers in pink, blue, lavender, and white. Plants are deciduous and necessitate cool reposition in wintertime, although they withstand temperatures to zero without killing the buds provided that cold snaps are short-term. They require rich, humus soil, plentiful moisture, and are suggested for shade. The blues have an particularly cool appeal on hot, summer days.

Japanese Aucuba -

Evergreen, fashionable for pots and planters in Europe, particularly in front of cafes in Paris. A pleasing variegated kind is the Gold-Dust Tree. It's best in shade or partial shade, because leaves turn yellow in broad sunlight. Red berries come out in autumn.

Nandina -

Oriental shrub, with fine-cut leaves and clusters of red berries, occasionally called Chinese sacred bamboo. Berries endure long after the fragile, compound leaves fall.

Oleander -

A conventional evergreen tub plant with elongated, slender, glossy leaves and single or double scented flowers. Needs a frost proof, illuminated northerly location in Wintertime. Oleanders can be disciplined as standards, since they're frequently encountered on streets in Greece.

Rosemary -

Mediterranean shrub with slender, fragrant leaves that are dark green on top and gray-white underneath. Flourishes in sunlight and somewhat thirsty soil; turns long-legged in shade in rich soil. Plants acquire a instinctive asymmetrical habit, but may be pruned. The variety, Heavenly Blue, has semi trailing branches and small-scale blossoms, deeper blue than the species.

Ruscus -

Known also as butcher's broom, a low-growing evergreen that is a familiar pot plant on terraces of Mediterranean countries. Stiff habit and leatherlike, prickly, tapered leaves. Robust plants withstand hot sun, shade, mediocre soil, and drought.

Beverly Clarke manages a network of green living websites including GreenOutsideIn, and TheGreenhousePrimer