Japanese maple

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Design tips and plant combination ideas for containers

Colleen Zacharias

Creating a spring container

Beckie Fox

Myrtle is an easy topiary to maintain.

How to make an elegant topiary

Beckie Fox

Tall blue salvia, coleus, double impatiens and English ivy. (Garden Making photo)

Perfect container plants

Beckie Fox

Cherry red ivy geraniums won’t shy away from intense sun and heat. (Photo by Garden Making)

6 container plants looking good in the heat

Beckie Fox

“No doubt this can be a thug, but ‘Lipstick’ trumpet vine is a hummingbird magnet in our garden,” says Allan Armitage. (Photos from his Twitter account)

Relax! It’s only a garden

Allan Armitage