Cypress Sensation
A mix like this will hold its form, color and shape all summer long. It’s wispy and feminine, with a punch of formal black. The container here was chosen to accent Black Velvet petunia. No need to cover the pot!
Ingredients:
- Breathless white Euphorbia
- Licorice helichrysum
- Aztec Magic dark pink verbena
- Grass Cyperus alternifolius Wild Spike
- Black Velvet petunia
Culinary Herbs
Here’s a decorative way to keep often-used kitchen herbs within easy reach! This combo will soon fill with fragrant rosemary, chives and sage.
Ingredients:
- Herb chives onion
- Herb salvia-sage
- Herb rosemary

A fresh - and edible - mixed container, featuring a mix of lettuce blends and sweet strawberries. Delectable indeed!
Ingredients:
- Gourmet blend lettuce
- Little Caesar lettuce
- Heatwave Blend lettuce
- Berri Basket Pink Strawberry
I’ve Got Rhythm
A big impact for large-size containers. This combo has the height and color you’re looking for! Petunia Rhythm and Blues is a stand-out, and the tall Salvia Mystic Spires Blue adds more impressiveness.
Ingredients:
- Butterfly Argyranthemum
- Lysimachia nummularia Goldilocks
- Mystic Spire blue salvia
- Fantasia Flame zonal geranium
- Rhythm And Blues petunia
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