
August Designs
Container Design Resources

Build sun and shade containers with a few quick tips! Whether you like to do it yourself, need something quick or would like a custom professional design, we have you covered.
See our easy direction for creating a Thriller Spiller Filler.
- Thriller, Fillers, Spillers for Shade
- Thriller, Fillers, Spillers for Sun
- Annual Shade Containers
- Containers and Baskets
- Edible Plant Containers
- Start in the Moon
- Ilex ‘Sky Pencil’
- Heuchera ‘Dark Secret’
- Erica d. ‘Mediterranean Pink’
- Blechnum spicant
- Helleborus ‘Ice-n-Roses Red’
- Primrose
- Euonymus ‘Wolong Ghost’
Choose the plants and we can do the potting: Houseplants, hanging baskets, mixed containers, holiday center pieces, window boxed, shrubs and trees in containers.
Have a pot at home that needs a hole in it? Bring it in and for $1.00 we’ll drill one for you (We cannot guarantee we won’t break the pot in the process of drilling, but we’ll do our best to not make that happen.)
August Container Design Inspiration

- Sedum spec. ‘Autumn Joy’
- Perovskia a. ‘Crazy Blue’
- Echinacea ‘Sombrero Salsa Red’
- Digiplexis ‘Illumination Flame’
- Achillea ‘Moonshine’
- Coreopsis ‘Moonbeam’
- Origanum ‘Kirigami’

- Canna ‘Pretoria’
- Echinacea ‘Sangrita’
- Millet ‘Jade Princess’
- Echinacea ‘Lemon Yellow’
- Zinnia ‘Sweet Tooth Orange Slice’
- Zinnia ‘Profusion Double Golden’
- Zinnia ‘Swizzle Scarlet & Yellow’
- Sedum ‘Angelina’
- Marigold ‘Disco Mix’

- Caryopteris ‘Dark Knight’
- Ceanothus ‘Tuxedo’
- Stipa tenuissima
- Senecio greyi
- Muehlenbeckia axillaris
- Hebe ‘Tricolor’
- Sempervivum ‘Red Rubin’
- Salvia microphylla ‘Heatwave Glimmer’
- Sedum u. ‘Turkish Delight’
- Sedum s. ‘Autumn Fire’
- Acanthus sennii

- Sambucus ‘Black Lace’
- Ipomoea ‘Sweet Caroline Bronze’
- Salvia discolor
- Coprosma ‘Tequila Sunrise’
- Ajuga ‘Golden Glow’
- Dahlia ‘Mystic Spirit’

- Caladium
- Coleus ‘Kingswood Torch’
- Fuchsia ‘Gartenmeister’
- Oplismenus hirtellus ‘Variegata’
- Bromeliad
- Begonia ‘Doublet Red’

- Dryopteris erythrosora ‘Brilliance’
- Heucherella ‘Gold Cascade’
- Lysimachia n. ‘Aurea’
- Begonia ‘Sparks Will Fly’

- Euphorbia ‘Blackbird’
- Mum ‘Echo Bronze’
- Cabbage ‘Tall Bicolor’
- Rosemary ‘Foxtail’
- Fescue ‘Elijah Blue’
- Sedum ‘Angelina’
- Sedum ‘Cape Blanco’
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