Plants
Five Peppers for Container Gardens
These five pepper plants do great in warm and sunny balcony container gardens. Try growing tasty bell peppers, Jalapeño peppers, chiles de arbol, cayenne peppers and, if you can handle the fiery flavor, the super spicy habanero pepper.
How to Grow and Care for Purple Fountain Grass in Containers
Intro: This pretty purple grass looks great in the back or middle of a combination container planting. This grass, which can reach 36 inches, adds height to the plant container setup. Purple fountain grass is also gorgeous by itself and can be placed behind other plant containers to add height. If purple fountain grass becomes established in a container, it is very hardy and easy to grow.
How to Grow and Care for Tulips in Containers
Intro: Tulips (up to 12 inches) can have pink, purple, red, dark red, orange, red orange or yellow flowers. The sweet-smelling flowers appear in early spring after periods of cold temperatures, which are necessary for tulips to thrive. These flowers are great for container gardens in colder climates: Tulips survive frosts and freezing temperatures.
How to Grow and Care for Angel’s Wings/ Elephant Ear in Containers
Intro: Different shades of green can be pleasing to the eye, but a splash of color in the balcony garden is always a beautiful addition. The arrow-shaped leaves atop Caladium bicolor’s long stalks can take in infinite variations of colors including white, pink, red, bronze and green. Angel’s wings, also called elephant ear, is a great container plant that brings colorful foliage to a shady balcony garden. These plants can grow to 2 feet tall and 2 feet wide. Their flowers resemble those of peace lilies with a bulbous stem beneath the flower.
How to Grow and Care for the Jade Plant
Intro: Also known as the friendship tree, lucky plant or money tree is a South African native succulent that blooms with small, star-shaped pink or white flowers in the right conditions. Jade plants are one of the easiest succulents to grow, and there are many cultivars, including ET’s Finger, Hobbit, Gollum and Shrek, which have interesting leaf shapes; Bronze Beauty and Sunset, which have different-colored leaves; Compact Jade and others, which are miniatures; and other jade plant varieties. If you keep them in bright sunlight, they get a red “stress color” at the edges of their green leaves. The jade plant grows up to 3 feet tall.
