Growing flowers, fruits and veggies in pots on the porch is how I began my love affair with gardening and it continues to be one of my greatest sources of joy and creative satisfaction. Last week I got to plant some particularly lovely pots at a particularly gorgeous historic home in the Irvington neighborhood.
Irvington Four Square
I wanted to create a composition that was sufficiently sophisticated to grace the front entry of this grand home but still funky enough to be a visual point of interest. For upright plants I used Schefflera elegantissima (False Aralia, sold as a house plant) to capture the warm chocolate-y tones of the house colors in a soft, feathery texture, punctuated by the bright chartreuse foliage of Abutilon pictum ‘Gold Dust’ (Flowering Maple) and yummy orange-leaved Coleus ‘Trusty Rusty‘. Wax begonias add brightness and charm with white flowers and round, glossy brown leaves. Muehlenbeckia axillaries, aka Creeping Wire Vine, lends bubbly, frothy fun to the mix as the trailing green element.
Freshly planted!
Color Close-Up
