Let's talk color! Filling an empty container is like an artist beginning with a blank palette. Lots of opportunity for creativity and making it fit your space and personality. We absolutely love using lots of different colors in the container gardens we create, and we don’t mean just the colors on the flowers. We're talking about the leaves on the plants themselves. Plants fall into these color categories: chartreuse, purple/red, silver/blue and kelly green. We also consider a variegated leaf it's own "color". It is sometimes a challenge, but we try to mix at least two of these colors into one container. It adds so much interest to the entire arrangement! Take a look at the picture above and you will see the kelly green color of the boxwood and scaevola leaves, chartreuse color in the sweet potato vine, and purple color in the purple heart.

Do give some thought to the color of your container when you are selecting the colors of your plants. If you have a light colored container, you may consider a dark spiller (like purple sweet potato vine or purple heart) and if you have a dark colored container, you may want to go with a spiller color that will pop (like chartreuse sweet potato vine or moneywort). Same goes for the background to the container, which is typically the color of your home or business. If it is a dark background, I would suggest using a bright thriller plant that will show up against the dark and vice versa, if you have a light colored background, you may want to use a dark thriller plant so you can see it from the street and it doesn't blend into the wall behind it.