Cascading Gems
The Best Trailing Plants for Your Garden
Create containers and hanging baskets that overflow with color this season! Tuck in a trailing plant here and there to soften the edge of containers and balance taller plants. Here are some of our top picks for cascading color:
Delicate blue or white blooms for part sun.
Blue Daze
Vivid blue blooms for part to full sun.
Fanflower
Extremely heat tolerant. Purple, pink or white blooms. Part to full sun.
Intensia Phlox
Clusters of shocking pink and purple blooms for part to full sun.
Million Bells
Small but profuse trumpet-shaped blooms look like miniature petunias. White, pink, yellow, orange, red and purple. For part to full sun. Attracts hummingbirds.
Purslane
One of the most heat and drought tolerant plants we carry. Prefers full sun and for soil to dry between waterings. Blooms close at night. Intense colors; white, yellow, pink, orange and red.
Sweet Potato Vine
Very fast-growing foliage in chartreuse, red and dark purple. Pinch back if needed. Shade or sun.
Torenia
Bell-shaped blooms in white, pink or purple. Profuse bloomer. Attracts hummingbirds. Light shade to sun.
Trailing Lantana
Extremely sun, heat and drought tolerant. Purple or white. Attracts butterflies.
Trailing Vinca
Sun, heat and drought tolerant, prefers soil to dry between waterings. Profuse blooms with no dead-heading required.
Verbena
Large clusters of blooms in white, pink, red and purple. Plant in part to full sun. Dead-head occassionally for more blooms.
Wave Petunias
Heat tolerant petunia with large blooms in white, and shades of pink, purple and red. Part to full sun. | 
