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| Photo Credit: Sarah Landicho |
| No one said strawberry pots were only for strawberries! Fill them with groundcovers and succulents for a great patio accent. |
I’ve always liked the look of succulents, but with the exception of a few sedums in my garden, I haven’t got any. To me, succulents always seemed better suited to the desert rather than a Midwestern garden – that is until our neighbor started bringing us back some lovely pottery containers from his hometown in Mexico. This season I thought I’d really try and show them off and create a little fiesta in my garden to highlight some plants I’ve never grown before.
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| All you need for this project is some cool groundcovers, potting soil and a strawberry pot. |
The first stop – a trip to the garden center. To accent my Mexican containers (which look great planted with colorful annuals), I thought I’d pick up a strawberry pot or two and plant them up with succulents (as I’ve seen so many times before). But the garden center employee suggested something a little out of the ordinary – something she’d always wanted to try herself: planting up a strawberry pot with some neat succulent-like, sedum-type groundcovers. After all, trailing plants look great coming out of these cool container openings. So, hey, why not?
She took me over to these wonderfully textured, colorful plants, and I was immediately hooked! I picked the biggest strawberry pot they had, some potting mix and six awesome groundcovers (mostly a variety of sedums and a creeping Jenny – all with similar care requirements). Then I headed home to get planting! | Add Photo to Journal |  | | Photo Credit: Sarah Landicho | | You may need to cut your groundcovers in half to fit them into the strawberry pot’s planting holes. |
The first issue I ran up against was the fact strawberry pots have small openings – much smaller than the plants I was dealing with. So I cut my plants in half with my hand trowel. (Groundcovers are typically pretty spunky, so I wasn’t worried about damaging their roots too much. And since their mission in life is to spread out, I thought they’d fill in any little open spaces nicely.)
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