Toronto Botanical Gardens-Fall Containers

November 3, 2009 · Filed under garden visits · Tagged outdoor urns

 OK, you are probably sick of the Toronto Botanical Gardens by now.  But look at this urn, it is all pumpkined up. How can you not want to see these.

This will be the last post on it for quite a while. The snow is coming and everything will be covered. So enjoy this while you can.

Love this, the cabbage with the stick of corkscrew hazel in it. Very graphic, linear line.

If you have an ivy topiary in your urns, just change the planting at the base for fall. The ivy can take quite a bit of cold.

And the same with your boxwoods.

Or you can pull out the more tender, frost sensitive plants, just leaving your cordyline. It looks lovely surrounded by grass.

Look, behind the planter, aren’t they cute?

A bit more traditional. You can add berries to the urn, just stick in a branch of crabapple, rosehips or bittersweet.

Love the echo of the white birch in the background.

You can use shrubs in your urns, like this hydrangea. If it is a cold area, like this part of Canada, you would want to plant the shrubs in the ground for winter.

Another shrub used in a planter.

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