Here is a short list of six popular trailing plants that have great visual impact. Do you have one you are particularly fond of using?
FIRST ROW
• 1 Sedum machinoi
• 2 Nasturtium - bright blossoms, silver dollar shaped leaves, edible
• 3 Nasturtium
• 4 Creeping Jenny (Lysimachia nummularia)
• 5 Creeping Jenny (Lysimachia nummularia)
SECOND ROW
• 6 Sweet potato vine (Ipomoea batatas) - both dark leaved and chartreuse are very bold
• 7 Sweet potato vine (Ipomoea batatas)
• 8 Lamium maculatum - beautiful silver leaves
• 9 Lamium maculatum
• 10 Million bells (Calibrachoa) or Petunias - both a good choice, infinite color choices.
Trailing plants help fill out your planters and add a bit of drama. Your eyes naturally want to follow the flow of those vines or flowers as they cascade out from the container. As they drape over they help to soften the look of container edges and can be used to unify groups of separate plantings.
Even if you are growing mostly for food, these additional shapes and colors can enhance the visual appeal of your garden veggie plots. And in the case of the Nasturtiums, they can even be eaten along with salad.
In New York one often sees these plants being used creatively in planters, and the combinations are endless. Let us know how you would use these... or when you wouldn't. At the moment I have some young Nasturtiums planted around my lavender. We’ll see later in the season how they enjoy each others company!
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My lemon thyme also creeps. Love creepy jenny & sweet potato vine, too.
I love the idea of a xeriscaped plantbed featuring sedum as a groundcover in many colors and sizes.
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I don't see dichondra on there, either emerald falls or silver falls... both are great! Not all nasturtium trails, some mounds. I loooove calibrachoa... it never stops blooming! And there also always string of pearls and string of bananas, which are succulents.
LOVE the neon lime of potato vines, especially paired with dark purplish foliage
I second @KimberlyM's love of silver falls dichondra. There's a silvery lotus vine that is also very cool. Love the golden creeping jenny--I plant it out in my garden in the fall, and dig it up again in the spring to put into planters. (Just so I don't have to buy it over and over again.)
For edible gardeners, there are creeping rosemary varieties. Thyme, some oreganos, etc., can be "spillers" too.
I have purple sweet potato vines spilling out of one of the containers in my roof garden. Last year, my green sweet potato vine hardly grew at all -- I was wondering if it was because it couldn't take that much intense heat? Anyway, this purple one seems to be doing much better. And today I was surprised to see it had some nice flowers on it too.
P.S. I keep trying to get sedum to grow as a spiller in some of my drough-tolerant pots. I don't know what I am doing wrong, but it gets leggy and tends to die.
About those succulents getting leggy. Could be a number of things, but may just be a factor of the sun and the heat radiating off your deck and planters. They could just be getting cooked as they grow out from the body of the plant, where the temp. may be a bit more regulated. I actually have to take out some Creeping Jenny and some Hakonechloa grass because they are not geeting the type of temp. reg. they like. Some clustering helped, but not a lot. And now looks like my strawberries are stressed from these record high temps. Rooftop gardening takes some WORK!