Good garden design relies heavily on the choice of filler plants. Filler isn’t a very respectful term, but filler plants can make or break your garden. They need to perform well over a long period of time and complement each other, while highlighting the focal points in your container garden. Great foliage is often the key to a great filler plant. Colorful or textured foliage provides interest all season.
Fillers
- Abutilon (Flowering maple)
- Agastache foeniculum (Anise Hyssop)
- Basil
- Caladium
- Celosia (plume flower)
- Coleus (Solenostemon scutellarioides)
- Cuphea (Firecracker Plant)
- Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus cinerea)
- Euphorbia marginata (Snow-on-the-mountain)
- Fuchsia
- Iresine (Blood-leaf)
- Lantana (Lantana camara)
- Ornamental Cabbage and Kale
- Perilla frutescens (Shiso)
- Plectranthus
- Salpiglossis sinuata (Painted Tongue)
- Senecio cineraria (Dusty Miller)
- Strobilanthes dyeranus (Persian shield)
- Swiss Chard
