Which plants, for a large planter?

sevenhills

You will have seen the type of planter, large square plastic one that they have in shopping areas.
Presently they contain mostly ever greens. The wrong thing, I believe. They are very low maintenance, but I want more colour.
A few geraniums in the middle, surrounded by pansies perhaps?

Silvertabby

A few small plants in a huge planter will look like peas on a drum.

A big planter needs a backbone of large plants - although you could add a few small trailing plants round the edge.

carly

What about several different euphorbia? They are evergreen, grow easily and come in a range of colours.  eg E. tasmanian tiger or E. Ascot rainbow to name just 2.

-taff

Keep the evergreens, add geraniums or cosmos or something that flowers all summer around the outside.

sevenhills

-taff said:

Keep the evergreens, add geraniums or cosmos or something that flowers all summer around the outside.

Geraniums are always good. One tub has ivy, which seems very dull. One tub has a tree-like ever green and African marigolds, which is not too bad.

LessImpecunious

The ivy will be good over winter though...agree with others re adding HHAs or geraniums to the mix...

Eldi_Dos

These style of planters are ideal for planting herbs in, easy to look after and pick as when needed.
I am thinking Rosemary, Basil mint etc

twopenny

We have planters all round the town. Do you?
Somewhere for inspiration.
Usually a mix of annuals with evergreens in the middle.
Variegated ivy trails nicely all year.

sevenhills

-taff said:

Keep the evergreens, add geraniums or cosmos or something that flowers all summer around the outside.

I generally don't like ivy, but I may try to plant some cosmos around what is already there

Murphybear

My large planters have an apple tree, a pear tree and assorted fruit bushes. 2 smaller ones have tall fuchsias, they look wonderful.  I have 4 pots with rose bushes, all scented varieties.  

Smallest ones have herbs, they are growing like weeds with the sunny weather.  I have different varieties of mint, I use a lot of it in the summer.  

There are varieties of clematis which are designed to be grown in pots.  I have a red one, a white one and a purple one (cant remember the names) which will be brown in a large pot, I’m working on it at the moment.  

theoretica

Are you thinking geranium or pelargonium?  If the latter, you would need to be prepared to replant every year.