Some Ideas for Pots One

Katsy Swan is a garden designer well known on the San Francisco Peninsula. She has designed the gardens around the Stanford Hospital:

A room with a view is easy to come by for patients at Stanford Hospital. Many rooms overlook colorful gardens, lavender-scented walks, and in spring, some of the 43,000 bulbs blossoming on the grounds.

Katsy also designed the Stanford Shopping Center displays. The hospital garden has large beds; the displays at the shopping center are more in pots, to break up the huge expanses of hardscape.

This grouping is by the south entry to Neiman Marcus.

One of the things that make it pleasing is that there is repetition and alteration.

Some of the bowls have underplantings of forget-me-nots; some are heavier on the Iceland Popppies (which I believe are the Champagne mix) some are heavier on the tulips. Our very hot March probably messed with the timing of the blooms. The white flowers are I believe candytuft (I should have made better notes) and pansies.

The other thing to note is that these are pretty large scale pots--a good three to four feet across, not your average backyard items. I like the foam pots that are popular now (sorry, can't find a foto link).

One of the hallmarks of Katsy's style is very dense planting, which works great in settings like this because the plant material is removed and swapped out up to four times a year.

Comments

[Garden Fountains Junkie]

I have retail a website that features garden decor. Wow, the 3 or 4-foot pots you show with this post are simply wonderful. Just think of the possibilities these pots have for creating special and unique themes throughout your garden! I am going to search around the Internet to see if I can locate a distributor for these pots!

Thank you for the wonderful garden decor ideas that are spinning around in my head right now!

[Cara Fletcher]

What beautiful flowers.I love gardening and I do it whenever I have some spare time.If I find some free space I'll put some flowers like those one in my garden.

[Aerogarden Grower]

Great post! It was very well researched and I enjoyed it very much. I bookmarked your site and will be back very soon, I look forward to reading some interesting posts! Thanks, Whitney

[TheresaK]

Ahh so that's how you get the nice variety of flowers. Repetition and alteration..now if I could only figure out how to have flowers blooming at alternate times. They seem to bloom nicely for one month and then I'm left with one type of flower blooming for the rest of the season.

[Johnny Greenthumb]

There is a lot of urban greenery around San Fransisco, not just in the parks, I wish every city had this approach.

[Jane @ My Organic Vegetable Gardening]

There seems to be a lot more city flower beds springing up all over the place these days which i think is fantastic, it really does brighten up the whole area and makes me feel happy inside :)