Late summer is my favorite time of year for container arrangements. All that beautiful color both in blooms and foliage!
This year, I’ve planted up quite a few containers to bring the late summer feeling to the entrance of the house.
A simple design trick to make an arrangement look great is to pick just a few colors and to repeat them. In this case the Hebe’s yellow and green foliage is repeated in the potato vine. And the pink edges come again in the blooms of the Mum.
Both the Rudbeckia fulgida ‘Goldsturm’ is a perennial and will come back next year. However, it’s always risky to winter over plants in containers so I might plant them in the ground in a month or two, just to be sure they make it though the winter.
Dichondra ’Silver Falls’ is one of my favorite plants for late summer and fall containers. It brings contrast to the arrangement that makes the other plants pop.
Dark coleus brings a dark background to the pink begonia. 
Carpet Bugle ’Burgundy glow’ is a perennial ground cover but does just as well in an arrangement.
Coleus ‘Winsome’, Sweet Potato Vine and Creeping Jenny 
Coleus ’Winsome’
