Full Sun Low Maintenance Outdoor Potted Plants

You can let the soil dry right out as long as you give it a thorough soaking when you do water.

Full sun low maintenance outdoor potted plants.

It just keeps blooming. If you crave blue tones in your full sun pots make room for scaevola. In fact many people choose to grow them solely as houseplants. They thrive in full sun and can be planted in the ground or they also do great in containers.

Coneflowers come in a variety of colors including purple red pink and yellow. The soil in your container should be loose and well draining and you ll need a spot with full sun for at least 6 to 8 hours. The upright narrow habit of this cultivar of our native arborvitae fits the bill as the vertical accent that many containers need. In zones 5 to 9 bottlebrush buckeye does well in full sun or deep shade so long as it gets enough water.

A slow grower with a potentially wide spread at maturity the zz plant can handle low light indoors like a champ. Also known as fan flower this low maintenance annual tumbles out of containers a perfect spiller plant. Plant it in full sun or light shade emerald arborvitae thuja occidentalis emerald syn. Smaragd zones 2 7 provides excellent year round interest because it maintains its rich green color in winter.

It is often marketed as a patio plant and produces pretty little white or purple flowers. The plant s low water needs make it a great option for forgetful gardeners its leaves will yellow if you water it too much. Coneflowers can grow between 2 and 5 feet tall they can add height and will look amazing in a large planter with smaller plants also. Most varieties will naturalize as well so you ll get more of them over time but not in a bad way.

The best potted plants for full sun part sun and shade within low maintenance outdoor potted plants view photo 23 of 25 tropical garden archives living asean inspiring tropical inside low maintenance outdoor potted plants view photo 24 of 25. If you grow it outdoors be sure to keep it out of direct sunlight. Once you plant them they don t require any maintenance at all. Speaking of spring bulbs daffodils are the next low maintenance plants on my list of full sun perennials.

Disease free and rarely needing a prune the slow growing low maintenance shrubs can reach. They come back for many years and bloom reliably unlike many tulips. When grown outdoors they are fairly low maintenance and can handle somewhat shady conditions that many other plants can t tolerate. Full sun to part shade.