Here are 10 container designs from my home garden and several residential and commercial clients. Some of these are highlighted in The NY Times garden column by longtime friend Margaret Roach on April 19, 2023

#1 GLAZED EARTHENWARE POTS in 2 sizes: 22″ x 17.75″ planted with Phormium ‘Guardsman’, Euphorbia martinii ‘Ascot Rainbow’, Heuchera ‘Georgia Peach’. 17.75″ x 15.75″ planted with Magave ‘Freckles, Sedum rupestre ‘Angelina’. On the ground orange Meconopsis cambrica
#2 CAST STONE RAIN BARREL planted with Loropetalum chinense Razzleberri
#3 GLAZED EARTHENWARE BAMBOO PLANTER planted with Pinus contorta ‘Chief Joseph’ outside my garden pottery shop
#4 CORTEN STEEL CONTAINERS planted with Cryptomeria japonica ‘Black Dragon + Petunia Supertunia ‘Honey’ + Carex oshimensis ‘Evergold’
#5 LIGHTWEIGHT POLYRESIN & GLAZED EARTHENWARE POTS at Leach Botanical Garden, Portland, OR planted with Phormium ‘Yellow Wave, Lonicera nitida ‘Lemon Beauty’, Begonia boliviensis ‘Bonfire’; middle pot planted with Fatsia japonica ‘Spider’s Web’, Fuchsia magellanica ‘Aurea’; pot in foreground planted with Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Lemon Wave’, Polystichum minimum
#6 BLACK CLAY EARTHENWARE POT in front of one of my restaurant accounts planted with Phormium tenax, Fatsia japonica ‘Spider’s Web, Abutilon, and spillers of Hedera algeriensis ‘Gloire de Marengo’, Parthenocisus henryana
#7 LARGE BROWN EARTHENWARE POT planted with a tropical-esque mix of Musa ‘Siam Ruby’, Calibrachoa Superbells ‘Creamsicle’, Lysimachia nummularia ‘Persian Chocolate’
#8 CAST STONE SEA SHELL planted with Sempervivum ‘Royal Ruby’, Thymus praecox ‘Coccineus’
#9 GREEN GLAZED EARTHENWARE POT planted with Aeonium ‘Sunburst’ and set in a surround of brown sedges (Carex tenuiculmis ‘Cappuccino’ and Chionochloa rubra (red tussock grass)
#10 MAPLE GLAZED BOWL planted with Sedum SunSparkler ‘Cherry Tart’ + unnamed Echeveria