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Jacky Parker

Heat-Tolerant Containers Garden Designers Always Plant in July – They'll Keep Your Pots Colorful Into Fall

Container containing Salvia, Petunias and Creeping Jenny.

Choosing colorful plant combinations for summer containers is fun; it's a chance to flex your creativity in your outdoor space, whatever shape it takes. Yet, the right 'recipe' is about so much more than aesthetics.

There are practical elements to consider, such as can the container garden plants all live happily together in the same soil, will they all thrive in peak summer heat, or will some wilt at the first sign of a drought?

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