Low Maintenance Outdoor Container Plants

Containers can provide excellent drainage but the plants depend on you for water and nutrients.

Low maintenance outdoor container plants.

Fuss free and low maintenance they ll look gorgeous in your yard. An evergreen as the centerpiece of a container garden is elegant classic and low maintenance. For a plant life in a container is much different than one in the ground. Shrubs and larger perennials often stay smaller in a pot though this depends on the plant climate and container.

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. This upright perennial grass reaches about 1 ft. Gardening should be a fun enjoyable activity.

But the blue gray spiky foliage is pretty enough to hold a container garden. Choose one that will hold its shape nicely without a lot of pruning. The container gardens will make you look like a pro without making you garden like one. 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.

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. Available on etsy. 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. Most any variety of jade plant is low maintenance because of its ability to tolerate neglect and less than ideal growing conditions.

Enter these low maintenance flowers. Better yet colorgrass spiky blue is heat and drought tolerant so it will hold up with minimal maintenance as landscaping bushes. Try a terracotta ceramic or concrete container instead. Plastic containers particularly black pots can heat up quickly in summer which can stress the roots of some plants and limit their growth.

20 low maintenance container gardens for beginners. 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. If one plant starts to look a little faded take it out and switch it with a healthy one. 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.