Low Maintenance Outdoor Container Plants

The container gardens will make you look like a pro without making you garden like one.

Low maintenance outdoor container plants.

Plastic containers particularly black pots can heat up quickly in summer which can stress the roots of some plants and limit their growth. So sit back relax and let these perennials annuals and best plants for container gardening prosper on their own with a little bit of tlc of course. An evergreen as the centerpiece of a container garden is elegant classic and low maintenance. Better yet colorgrass spiky blue is heat and drought tolerant so it will hold up with minimal maintenance as landscaping bushes.

To keep it that way choose from these easy plants for the outdoors. Available on etsy. Try a terracotta ceramic or concrete container instead. Choose one that will hold its shape nicely without a lot of pruning.

Fuss free and low maintenance they ll look gorgeous in your yard. If you don t have a big garden or any yard at all and would like some low maintenance gardening container plantings are for you plants that grow well on decks and patios can help you build a green outdoor environment that doesn t take a lot of work to keep up and maintain. For a plant life in a container is much different than one in the ground. A good option is emerald green arborvitae a semi dwarf cultivar that grows in a narrow pyramid shape to around 7 to 15 feet tall.

Most any variety of jade plant is low maintenance because of its ability to tolerate neglect and less than ideal growing conditions. This upright perennial grass reaches about 1 ft. Enter these low maintenance flowers. Many prefer the silver jade plant pictured above in containers because the paddle like leaves are a bit bigger less common and prettier with their red edging and silver green coloring.

Wide so it s a natural as a groundcover or front of border plant. Ideal for low maintenance landscaping these plants thrive in zones 7 to 10 whether in partial or full shade and require little to no mowing fertilizing or watering. They ll do just the trick when you re looking for something like easy fast growing vines that will make a mark in the backyard without a ton of work. Shrubs and larger perennials often stay smaller in a pot though this depends on the plant climate and container.

If one plant starts to look a little faded take it out and switch it with a healthy one. Containers can provide excellent drainage but the plants depend on you for water and nutrients. But the blue gray spiky foliage is pretty enough to hold a container garden. Tall and 8 in.