Best container plants

Our editors share picks for the best container plants for colorful, long-lasting container gardens every year. Mix and match these plants for sun and shade.

Container plants are a great way to spruce up your deck, porch, or lawn for the summer. This guide explores some of the best options for container plants that thrive in full sun and heat.

Is your garden space limited to a patio or balcony? Grow a portable forest.

Container gardening provides a simple way for you to plant and maintain flowers and foliage, allowing you to easily move them around to spruce up any corner of your space.

With these low maintenance evergreen dwarf shrubs for containers, you can grow your favorite easy-care shrubs in a small space and create a movable garden.

Growing perennials in pots adds instant color and foliage to patios, porches and decks. Check out these 3 great choices for container plantings!

For creative stoops, patios, and—okay, okay—fire escapes

Container garden design is easy with these tips. Learn how to arrange plants in pots using the thrillers, spillers, and fillers technique.

Cascading plants add beauty to gardens. The plants grow like vines that will trail down vertically, creating a waterfall effect. Some spread to retaining

Both annual and perennial plants can work in containers. These plants can thrive in container gardens in shady areas of your garden, backyard, porch or patio.