Hardiness Zone: 8a
Karent from Brownwood, TX
A: Karent,
Your aunt can think of the wagon as a large container or a larger holder for containers depending on how she wants to look at it. If she wants to plant flowers directly into the wagon, be sure to tell her to drill drainage holes in the bottom. The advantage to filling the wagon with pots for flowers is that she can change them out according to the seasons (e.g. flower for summer, pumpkins for fall and evergreens for winter). Either way, she has pretty limitless choices. If planting multiple plants, I suggest she use Thrillers (tall or colorful, focal point plants), combined with Frillers (filler plants) and Trailers (trailing plants). For sun or partial shade, here are some trio ideas:
You can also create wonderful waves of easy-to-maintain color with a solid planting of wave petunias or pansies.
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How about the bright colored, care free Moss Rose or Rose Moss covering the wagon bed.
sunflowersue2u
Ivy geraniums work well - don't need much care and always bloom
To be completely honest, I wouldn't plant the flowers in the wagon. I live in the N texas panhandle directly in the armpit of Oklahoma. I have tried planting flowers in shallow objects like a wagon and they just burn up in the hot Texas sun and hard blowing winds.
We have an old wagon in our back yard. I have
planted impatients some years and rose moss
in others. We live in the same "zone".
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