Take advantage of what Garden Music® Top Performers® have to offer: compact growth, longer blooming, higher bud count. Conduct your own horticultural symphony with your favorite container. Imagine Bacopa spilling over the edge fronting a fanfare of Nemesia, then climbing higher to a crescendo of hybrid Argyranthemums (Marguerites). Place it anywhere you want an audience! Sounds like music to me.

You don't need to have acres of land to have all the benefits of these outrageous new plant varieties. Nowadays few people have much more space anyway than a porch, patio, set of stairs, or a small strip of dirt called a backyard. Containers of various sizes are perfect for any of these locales. Think of the endless possibilities of combinations.

Take advantage of the Garden Music® handy Size Trowel on each of the plant tags indicating the plant's growth habit …….Tall, Medium and Low to aid in your container garden layouts!

If you are one of those who just can't get enough of your favorite color, use lots of similar shades of your favorite but different textures and habits! Say you are a pink person; try a container or series of containers with a single and a double pink Argyranthemum, trailing pink calibrachoa, and some delicate airy salmon pink Diascia. Place them down your stairs, along your walk, or anywhere you need to see "your pink". Also great in the theme aspect for say a baby girl shower! If blue is your downfall, try Felicia, Heliotrope, Lobelia and Brachyscome - all blue shades, very different textures, and now you've also covered the baby boy shower as well! Whatever your favorite color, yellow, white, red, lavender - check out all the possibilities available in today's new plant selections.

Certainly the pink or blue baby shower gardens just mentioned above, but also patriotic red white and blue gardens for Memorial Day and Fourth of July - these could be a simple combo of red, white and blue salvias all the same height, or a layered look with red Salvia, down to white Marguerites on to blue trailing Calibrachoa.

This is a great place to employ the Garden Music® and Top Performers® handy Size Trowel indicated on every label. Traditional English or Cottage gardens typically follow a standard structure of placement whether in the landscape or in a container. As this structure usually follows a graduating size format, the trowels marked Tall, Medium, and Low, have already done half of your thinking for you! Start either in the middle of the container or the back with plants of your choice labeled Tall, maybe a Foxglove or Delphinium.

If you are starting in the center of the container, make your next Medium planting all the way around the tall item; this is creating a container that can be viewed from any side - everyone sees the same planting wherever they are! For a medium plant try Angelonia, Nemesia, Diascia, or Brachyscome. Again, plant your Low items all the way around the medium ones letting them spill over the edge; try Bacopa, Trailing Helichrysum, Verbena or Lamium - Voila! If you started in the back of the container, follow the same graduations of size but successively planting just in front of the tallest items all the way to the front ending with the lowest. This creates a single sided planting with more of a panoramic appearance. Don't forget to try some Garden Music® grasses in your containers as well for that extra special look.

These can be both "Funky" and fun. Use just Garden Music® Ornamental Grasses with all of their colors, sizes and textures to create a Prairie look, or a High Desert or Southwestern appearance. Go a step further and try using the Semi-Aquatic Grasses and set their container in a shallow dish always filled with water to get a Pond, Riparian or Everglades effect - No Gators Please!

"The Moon Garden" is definitely one of the "funkiest" specialty container gardens of all! Plant the container following whatever placement method you choose, such as the traditional cottage layout for example, and use only White Flowering and Variegated Foliage types of plants. White Argyranthemums, White Calla Lilies with white speckled leaves, White Nemesia, Silver Trailing Helichrysum, White Variegated Bacopa or White Calibrachoa. Place this container garden somewhere outside on a patio, deck, stairs or porch and see what happens under bright moonlit or Full Moon nights. The effect is eerily beautiful as all of the white flowers and white or variegated foliage glow with a ghostly surreal appearance!