Flower Alley Experiment: Simple Container Ideas for Full Sun! ☀️🌿🙌// Garden Answer 

Anyone else jealous just looking into the cold frame greenhouse and seeing ALL the colors

The greenhouse looks so good as well as the pots.

Gardening relaxes me, you give me some good ideas

White lupine would be beautiful in your moon garden. Also gooseneck loosestrife.

How fun coffee with Laura and experiments with plants!!!!! I love this idea and you are adding to my list of plants to try out for sure. I have this list developed so that even if I can't get the plants this year I keep looking for them and then I can even go back and watch the video that you planted them in to remind myself how they looked and grew so thank you for this!! I think this is going to be a fun experiment !!!

Have a nice day.

So glad to see some simpler arrangements.

The next experiment is showing us all the value of fertilizer. Planting 2 pots with same plants...one with and one without fertilizer. BTW can’t wait to see the progress on the new property. 😀🌹

Beautiful! I’m now feeling inspired 😊😊😊👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽😊😊😊

Before I started playing this video I admit I was a bit confused with the title "simple containers," but seeing a split screen with a lot of different plants in each container. (For me, a "simple container" has just one type of flower (the "mono" look), with the possibility of purple fountain grass or dracaena spike plants for the thriller.) I should have known that for you, three or four plants IS simple ;) Of course I don't have your great eye for combining different plants and having them look more beautiful together than if they were single. Many times I have thought a planter you were working on looked finished and then you would add something else. I wouldn't have thought it would get prettier...but it always did! Love the planter from Unique Stone. Even though I love the look of the different colored containers out there, I like to let the plant be the thing that is noticed. That container is perfect. A neutral "color" with a beautiful embossed design. Something like that really can enhance an arrangement instead of over powering it. Looking forward to seeing them and the flower combinations in Flower Alley! Thank you for your work!

Beautiful! Yesterday I bought a huge hanging basket of the bubble gum vista supertunias and all I keep thinking is “ Oh my goodness, I really have supertunias like Ms. Laura!!” Lol I love you and your flowers so much ❤️

Can't wait to follow this container

I love and appreciate how you are not using gloves. Nothing is better than feeling the roots and soil on your fingertips.

Thank you so much for displaying the name of the plants, and a link, that is considerate. I learn so much from your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Have a happy fall planting your favorite plants.

These simple and smaller containers are something that is more practical for me. Thx.

Wow!! Amazing way to bring more colour to life 😊

I'm not into ASMR but there is something so satisfying about the sound of bags of soil being emptied and fertilizer being scooped.

I love plants so much. I’ve been interested in planting but I just don’t know where to begin. Seeing all these plants just make my day.

Thank you Laura I do believe you slant your flowers when planting them! Which I never thought f! Great idea, I have done this in planting some of my containers for the first time! will post in proven winners ! When grown! Thank you!

Good morning 😃🌞 🌼🌹🌺🦋

I am so amused watching you! 🙂👏

I am a beginner gardener and each video is enormously helpful, Laura and Aaron. I try to catch your new video every single morning with my tea after I have come inside from tending my own garden and landscape. At night I watch or re-watch other videos from the past that help teach me something I missed the first time I watched! Yesterday I learned that I have to water outdoor plants in containers during the Winter as well as water all the plants in your cold frame during the Winter while dormant. This seems obvious to me now, and I hope to treat my plants better during the Winter 2020 as nothing survived from 2019. Haha! Thank you for teaching me.

HI LAURA, THESE CONTAINERS AND PLANTS ARE VERY BEAUTIFUL. THAT'S THE REALLY SUMMER ! I'M HAPPY OF THE NEXT VIDEO ! MANY GREATINGS FROM GERMANY ! 🙋‍♀️👌👍🌼🌻🦋🌞🌞🌞

Hi Laura & Aaron! Classy Videos!! The Alternanthera is A Big BEAST & will become your FAV foilage Annual!! I'm Zone 6 & it loves Full Sun....the more the better. One plant can fill a 24" container in a season. I started giggling cuz the Gumphrena/beast & Superbells & Supertunia, OH MY! lol You will enjoy seeing the fast growth on this pot! They make several Alternanthera....they have one with some Pinker tones. Blessings

Wow you have lots of plants in your video very excited to see where it is all going. All into the new cut flower garden? Love the copious plants

White lupine would look good in your moon garden. Also gooseneck loosestrife if it’s not invasive in your area.

Laura you did it! Only 3 plants in your container!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

I like the size of the planters and flowers so pretty together, Thanks for sharing

We have done something similar to this but with purple basil. It's still pretty. It is attracting pollinators, and it tastes so good. It is also very high in vitamin K and has immune boosting properties. My wife also planted lavender in a similar manner.

Hi dear friend thank you so much for another awesome video I always love all your beautiful garden video she put together I am a garden lover I am not good at gardening but I do love it

Whenever I have planted superbells in mixed containers, I plant them higher and on an angle outward so their root crown dries out. I tease the bottom third of their roots, and leave about 1/4 of the potted plant structure exposed. It looks odd at first but really helps.

Beautiful arrangements!

My first thought when you mentioned where these planters were going to go was on the brick patio area. I think that spot would be perfect! I can't tell you how much I love your videos. I have been gardening for over 20 years and I am still learning from you. You are also bringing new ideas to the table, things I may never have thought of doing before. Every day I am excited to see what you are going to post. Thank you for all you doing and for sharing with us.

These are some of my favorites. Thx.

These containers are the same size of containers I use in my garden. I appreciate these simple arrangements!

Less plants in a container. While planting this passed weekend, I told my mother, I was planting with the Aaron method. We both laugh. Do you think garden centers look at your cart and say, there goes another garden answer person??? My cart was whatever I could find that was proven winners. Have a great weekend from Baltimore.

You just can’t beat a container with coleus😊❤️😊

Anyone else obsessed with Supertunia Honey? 😍

ooooooo - I can see why you were drawn to that Plum Dandy Alternanthera! I'm in love! It's Gorgeous! I'm gonna be on the look-out for that one!

Good job sweetie you always super I love you so much I watch reader era with you always and I learn from you a lot of stuff

Always love your videos and watching you experiment.

Refreshing to hear Laura say “simple arrangement.” I get overwhelmed with too much spectacular.

Can’t get over those pots! Beautiful!

Coleus has become my favorite plant for adding color to my containers ~ they are so easy to sprout from seed, and i can get dozens of plants that way on the cheap!

Am watching from ireland, in lockdown, your videos are amazing and have given me a much appreciated change from all the baking I was watching,,and trying,,and eating😜 so containers are my new vibe, thank you 🇮🇪😊

I would love to learn a bit more from you about the different types of fertilizers you use, their purposes and when and why you would use one and not the other or if there are some that are more widely usable. I’ve learned so much from you! Thanks for your videos!!

This season the garden seems like it will end up like Disney Land with the brighter colors.

These are beautiful!

I also love gardening ❤️

I'd love to see a green house tour. Which plants do you stick up on? Why? Are you propogating?

Hey, could you make a video about planting / arranging plants in cointainer boxes hanging from the balcony?

I’ve seen that ‘plum dandy’ grown indoors. They’re stunning.

You’re going to love that Alternanthera. I mass planted it last year with dots of Diamond Frost and it performed so well.

love your flower arrangements I got a chance to grow a proven winner plant this season

Lovely flowers!!!!!!

So beautiful!

Gorgeous combinations!!

Thank you for sharing.

Lovely arrangements.

I admire your enthusiasm and seemingly limitless energy and talent with but a single caveat, and this is only my personal preference. I've heard you say a couple of times now how much you like the plants that are yellow (of several varieties) which for the most part look like coneflowers or daisies, the name by which you call them escaping me at the moment; and I cannot abide them 🤣! I think they're hideous in every arrangement and setting I've seen them in, but then I can't stand yellow except in tiny buttercups or in roses, and anything remotely looking like a daisy is gnarly looking to me, with the exception of the purple coneflower. It's just all too offensive to my eye. What you said in your podcast on "Cottage Gardens" I ate up like candy, I couldn't have agreed more, BUT for the soft yellow plant you mentioned. Ack! Substitute a rose for that and I'm great guns for the whole shebang. (I sorry 😑) I'm just a pale pink to dark purple person. And variegated greens, too. I had the chance to work in a greenhouse for a time myself and loved it. The lady who ran it with her husband was a bit gruff but this only piqued my interest all the more as I found it ironic that someone with a bad attitude was so enthused with delicate lovely things. This was not a person who gave a fig about her own personal appearance either. In any case, the opportunity arose for me to one day do the initial seeding for their petunias. BUT, in the TINIEST earthen pots I'd ever seen! They were the ones that are less than one half-inch square, and were fed in their own pallets through a seeding machine that was manually operated and would plant some 12 to 14 seeds across in a row for each pallet at a time. Well, this was just the best thing since Disco as far as I was concerned. (Hey, I'm 66 now with no teeth, gimme a break.) Anyhow, so she instructed me how to use this animal, with the single proviso to take care that the openings at the bottom where the seeds will lie before being plopped into the tiny pots didn't get damp with condensation, otherwise the seeds will get stuck in the machine and place too many seeds at one time in the pots. I told her no problem, that I'd keep a lookout. There were over a hundred packets of various kinds of petunias so I carefully started and was going steadily about this work when, after a couple of hours, she came back in and checked up on me with approval, then left again. Well, I have this tendency, along with every other member of my initial family, to talk to myself, AND, as things would have it, it came to pass, being left alone in a deserted part of this huge warehouse I began to engage in a verbal reverie. Mind you this is never with any one person in particular, just some random individual who pops to mind. I've no idea now what the conversation was about, as I've forgotten it entirely due to what happened over the course of 40 odd minutes. Presently I 'came to' and, noticing I'd drifted off and hadn't been paying attention to the equipment, I instantly checked the seeder for condensation...oops! The seeds were clumping up in groups of 4 and 5 at the aperture! They must have been doing so this entire time---ohmyLord! How will I ev--oh well, guess they'll have to settle for "Petunia Surprise!" This concept then hit me like a brickbat, and could feel a rush of hilarity seize me. That did it! I burst into the loudest fit of laughter I've ever had in my life! The air-theiving kind, where you keep increasing in volume in protracted bursts, coming to a sudden stop only to realize I'd another one coming and I was helpless do stop it. Laughter peeled from me in ever more maniacal ripples, completely confounding her husband who came in, looked at me with his usual deadpan gaze and left. This only added fuel to the fire that already was burning out of control. She finally came in and stopped to look at me and for the first time she was grinning! Say no more! I concluded her question and pointed at the seeding machine, tears streaming down my face. She approached with her grin pasted to her face, eyes too widely open. "o-KAY. What have you been 🚬 smoking?" This just pushed me into overkill and I doubled over, wheezing, pointing now at the pallet. Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, I was able to gain enough composure to reiterate to her, "Remember what you said about the condension?" She nodded with a big, slow, 'Yeeees.' "Well, I kinda got lost in thought for a moment, and---" Here the giggles got me again. "Sooo, what exactly IS in these pallets?" She carefully ventured, the grin still with her, as I choked out a reply. "Petunia Supprize??!" Time for her to bust up. Albeit for a shorter period of time than I, but she did just the same. The other horticultural engineers were really intrigued at this development and had to come in for a peek at this rare phenomenon. Her laughter came to a sudden stop, and mine with it as I feared she was going to axe me on the spot. Instead, she was quite genial, telling me to mark the effected pallets as 'Petunia Surprise' and then dry off the seeder and finish up. The others were astounded, I was ever so grateful, and as she turned and left, muttered the new name with a chuckle in her exit. I did as told, intermittent 'erps' of 'ha!' coming from me while seeding the rest of the packets. No more petunia surprise occurred. I thought that tidbit might amuse some who may have encountered a mix up or two in their own sojourns through the daffodils. Tah. 💐

This would be nice for fall

Great series - appreciate your experiences

Beautiful containers. Love the colors. Your greenhouse is full of beauty. Can’t wait to see what you do with all of those plants.

Those pots are really pretty like the little ones you planted they other day! I love coleus! I love seeing your greenhouse with all those cheerful looking colors! God bless!

Can’t wait to see these in all their splendor ☺️

I planted the Truffula in a big pot with some superbells. Now I am going to go get one and put in the ground to compare that looked so pretty. Yep, hope they still have it cause I want to do the wreath too! Beautiful!

oh, look at those... excellent color choices and blending: they look like they were just made for each other!! pretty pots, too... it will be so much fun to watch these fill out! can't wait to see the others and your 'flower alley'!

I build my planters using a simple phrase. Thrill, Fill and Spill!

Every time you post a container video I immediately save it to replicate. I keep thinking they can’t get any prettier but you keep nailing it! Thank you for so much beautiful inspiration, Laura! Now I just need to invest in more pots ☺️

I use the old fashion way to water plants with the hose. How much water is enough. I planted three 5 gallon box woods in the shade and loads of super tunias in pots and in the ground. I was afraid to get super bells since they don’t take as much water. Luv your channel! You have inspired me to do lots of gardening and updating my landscaping. I love it!

The greenhouse is looking incredible 😱😍

Thank you for this video ! And the ideas.

Love the idea of showing different container ideas for us and trying different plants, we all seem to get stuck in a rut. 🥰

Will you be doing another tour of your parent's garden this summer? I love to see the different areas transform and show off a variety of foliage and blooms. Thanks, love your channel.

Love these!!!

Hi sweetie you are a super job I love your job always I watch your video when I learn from you a lot of stuff you’re a super girl I love you so much

I’m in Arizona zone 9B so it is always nice to see some full sun plants! Beautiful containers as always Laura 🌻😍🌸

Interesting to see what these two do. Not your regular way of planting or choices of colors. This is going to be fun to see these come on. Looking forward to see how this is going to turn out.

I really like the zooming in this video. Lets me see all the tiny details on the plant!

I love your updates

Nicely paced video.

This is going to be fun! Can't wait!!!

Love seeing planter ideas with just a few plants!

I am wondering - could you use a T coupler instead and make a circle and eliminate the need for a goof plug? Thanks for the inspiration you and your whole family are making the world a better place!

So thankful for you sharing your wisdom and plant art!

Love the colors

They look beautiful!!! Cant wait to see the progress. So pretty!!! I'm excited I got my Garden Answer hoodie for Mothers Day. I love it!!! I'll wear it proudly. 💗🌱🌻💗🌱🌻

Beautiful combination of flowers and foliage. I can’t wait to see the results.

Your cold frame looks like a nursery center beautiful and FULL! Looking forward to watching all your videos this year! It's part of my daily routine!

She’s amazing so creative 🌺🌸👍👍😎

Hi Laura and Aaron! Those turned out really pretty. Can't wait to see what you plant in the other pots and their progress later. Also, can't wait to see where you put them. Thank you for sharing!

Way to go !

Thanks for posting. I have 4 containers I'm going to put on my front porch and maybe I do each one in a mono. 😊I'm feeling inspired!

so beautiful!! thank you for sharing.

Just watching with enjoyment...your passion and exuberance very inspiring... Your plumbing skills...👍👏 Thanks for sharing...❤💖💝

Yes! I'm so glad you mentioned that you've struggled to have superbells and supertunias live happily together in the same container. I purchased a flower pillow from Proven Winners a few years ago and the supertunias never took off. It was still a beautiful show but I thought I did something wrong. I feel vindicated now 😁

Love more color! That is what I do ever year! We have so much green already.... Indiana

Gorgeous! Can you please do a video about your favorite perennials that bloom all summer season long that I don't need to deadhead. Oh man, those plants would make all my dreams come true!

Laura, thank you for all you do. I have all these paper whites that I grew this past winter and don't know what to do them now. I'm in a Zone 2. I just replanted the bulbs in a flat but need to know what to do next as I clearly cannot plant them in the landscape and do not have a greenhouse. thanks again. Can't tell you how much you are appreciated.

These are really beautiful combinations. And so far, I would take all these into fall. Gorgeous colors and texture. 👏🏻💕👏🏻