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Awesome Accents is a collection of foliage plants idea for container gardening. They add height, texture and trailing interest in containers.

What’s So Awesome?

  • Container gardening has become the #1 growth area for gardening
  • Many gardeners like to create their own container gardens and Awesome Accents provides a great selection of plants for height, plants that trail like vines, and plants that add texture to any container

What You Need to Know about Awesome Accents

  • They are annuals, except in very warm climates
  • They are all easy to grow
  • Super Spikes are Fernlea’s extra tall spike plants – ideal for placing in the center of a container
  • Ivy, Vinca, Plectranthus and Spider Plant grow vine-like and trail over containers
  • Asparagus fern and Swedish ivy provide fullness in a container
  • There are ‘planting recipes’ at this link to help gardeners create beautiful containers: http://fernlea.com/awesomeaccents/recipes.htm
  • They are vigorous growers and will fill in and trail very quicklyl
  • They tolerate a variety of conditions from full sun to shade
  • Here’s a typical selling unit, a 3” pot:

Vigorously growing plectranthus
This plectranthus will grow vigorously over the summer and continue to send out trailing vines.

You’ll find a list of all Awesome Accent varieties available from Fernlea at this link:

http://fernlea.com/awesomeaccents/plants.html

Awesome Accents are a collection of foliage plants ideal for container plantings
Awesome Accents is a collection of foliage plants ideal for container plantings- shown here English Ivy and the Super Spike in combination with other annuals for color.


Planting recipes help gardeners pair up plants that like similar light conditions
Planting recipes help gardeners pair up plants that like similar light conditions. Recipes also provide height and fullness to each container.

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