Full Sun Low Maintenance Outdoor Potted Plants

A slow grower with a potentially wide spread at maturity the zz plant can handle low light indoors like a champ.

Full sun low maintenance outdoor potted plants.

Coneflowers come in a variety of colors including purple red pink and yellow. Speaking of spring bulbs daffodils are the next low maintenance plants on my list of full sun perennials. There s no need to deadhead scaevola either. In fact many people choose to grow them solely as houseplants.

The upright narrow habit of this cultivar of our native arborvitae fits the bill as the vertical accent that many containers need. When grown outdoors they are fairly low maintenance and can handle somewhat shady conditions that many other plants can t tolerate. It is often marketed as a patio plant and produces pretty little white or purple flowers. If you grow it outdoors be sure to keep it out of direct sunlight.

They thrive in full sun and can be planted in the ground or they also do great in containers. Also known as fan flower this low maintenance annual tumbles out of containers a perfect spiller plant. Foliage of green blue green burgundy gold or gray. In zones 5 to 9 bottlebrush buckeye does well in full sun or deep shade so long as it gets enough water.

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. You can let the soil dry right out as long as you give it a thorough soaking when you do water. Potato vine aka jasmine nightshade is an easy vine to grow and doesn t need much maintenance. If you crave blue tones in your full sun pots make room for scaevola.

Full sun to part shade. Most varieties will naturalize as well so you ll get more of them over time but not in a bad way. Disease free and rarely needing a prune the slow growing low maintenance shrubs can reach. Smaragd zones 2 7 provides excellent year round interest because it maintains its rich green color in winter.

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. Plant it in full sun or light shade emerald arborvitae thuja occidentalis emerald syn. They come back for many years and bloom reliably unlike many tulips. It just keeps blooming.