Make Every Plant Count… you can do more with fewer plants

Even in my 16” pots, I only use 3 vista supertunias and the containers are LUSH!

I'm so glad to watch your video, such a very helpful tips. Thanks a lot

Greetings from Kentucky!
I love your channel. I really love petunias but haven't had much luck with them. I'm on a budget with my flowers and took a big chance with some Wave petunias on a marked down cart at my local big box store home/nursery. These poor plants were on their last leg. But like you, I am patient. I planted two 14" hanging baskets, trimmed the tips and fertilized them. The plants are doing SO much better! They are double in size ( which is still on the small size) but are looking great!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and I am thankful for finding your channel!🌸

Totally love your advice. I’ve learned a lot. I keep watching your posts.

Thank you for this video! I live in southern Indiana and our flowers will usually bloom into mid-October. This was a great reminder to be patient and do the research on what plants will look like a few weeks or a month into growing season.

Love your version of the PW Honey Bees recipe. Gorgeous! I’d never have considered it just looking at the over-planted version online. Supertunias and Superbenas are real workhorses for me. Tried Sunpatiens for the first time last year and wow! You definitely need to heed the tag because compact is only compact when compared to the vigorous variety.

Excellent topic, Corey, and it’s so helpful to see examples to illustrate your points. Visuals definitely appreciated—Also love your style! 👍

Great video and info Cory,Im one who has always did petunias in containers and I never have packed mine like I see others do a bigger pot i might do 3 for a combo and I have done one or 2 in big pots and have always had a beautiful outcome,I laded on the waves 2 yrs ago and those are my go too now, I have also gotten bigger plants and split them and get 2 or 3,I love to garden and it's the only way I can afford it pay a little more and get more for the buck, Now I love the purple with green edging I have to go ook for those 😆

My neighbor asked if I was going to widen my driveway, since the Lantana planted alongside was taking over. Everything planted in that bed disappeared underneath a cloud of yellow. :/

I love Picasso! Just bought some yesterday!

Liked and subscribed…great info. Maine viewer.

This video was extremely useful! Vigor and overplanting. Thx for this! Omi

Great tips thanks as always Corey!

Hi Corey, could you advise me on how many vista supertunias to put in a 15” urn planter. Could I use one and a prince tut or just two supertunia, I just don’t want to have too many or not enough. Thanks

Thank you for posting something that makes sense. I'm so tired of these Proven Winners shills making people think they need to over pot your arrangements. I started watching one the other day where this lady tried stuffing at least 12 plants in an 8x12 box!

I have a 15 foot bed in front of my house. I use 7 supertunias for the front row. That's it! It fills beautifully!

Because of their practices, I don't trust Proven Winners or the people that push them so hard. Their tactics are so wasteful and not good at all in this economy.

Thanks for another great video Cory. Started watching your channel a few weeks ago and changed my buying habit this year. Spent much less and have five pots instead of two. 😊

In a deck railing box 15” x 6”, I put just 3- a dragon breath celosia center, a sweet potato vine and a trailing coleus … now I’m a tad worried because the celosia was in a small 4 pack but the tag said 18 inches I think. Last year I way over stuffed them and ran into all the issues you mentioned. Water ran right through by the end of the summer.

GREAT INFORMATION….. It’s very hard to tell which ones are vigorous growers! Which I’m sure most of us are looking for……thank you so much!!

Great informative video Corey, the plants you showed us are so beautiful. Thank you for sharing this with us. ❤

Great video.

Thank you Cory...I totally enjoy your videos...as a gardener of over 45 years, I am still learning new things every day. PS... It's never mentioned too often but Browallia by Proven Winners is a knock out as they are resilient and who can argue with a blue/violet flower for shade...(also in white)

Thank you for this video. I would describe myself as a rescue plant lady and shop the clearance racks. I have gotten amazing deals and brought back olive trees that looked dead, flowering plants of all sorts, bulbs from discount stores, and shrubs. I just look the care up and plant. I think keeping an open mind and strategic planning, as you suggest, are big money savers.

I like the sun patients so easy to care for

I love your videos.What kind of food do you use for your hanging basket?

Im trying to figure out how many petunias to plant in my 20" wide patio pot.

What water soluble fertilizer do you recommend?

Awesome information!! Thank you so much!! I’ve always been too inpatient and my plants don’t thrive… imagine that! Ha, the problem is me not the plants 🤣

Very honest review

Yup proven winners is expensive but I buy less and have better looking flowers for the season. So worth it

Thanks for this video. You're very kind to share this for people who don't know.

I take my hanging baskets apart because they are cheaper than the quart containers. At least that has been the case the last month in STL.
Dont tell stores your secrets- I am looking for cheap annuals!
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Great information Corey! I plant just one El brighto coleus along with two dichondra silver falls in my two front entrance pots. It’s plenty and gets lots of compliments! 🇨🇦👏🇨🇦

Finally so common sense when planting up containers. Many of us don't have a company that supplies us with plants plus many of us have a budget to live with!

Patient, is the key word you said, the customers don’t have any. I worked in a production nursery in Ontario and we put 4/5 petunias in a 12 in hanging basket (cell pack size) hang them in the greenhouse two months, pumped them full of water and fertilizer, to get them to sellable size by mid May. With the short length of our season, most customers don’t want to wait a month of the 4 month season to get a full hanging basket. Cell packs are $2.49 for 4 plants and the pw 4 inch pots are 6.99 each and that seems to be the biggest obstacle, plus we are lucky if our customers remember to water their baskets, let alone fertilize or dead head and pinch back when they get leggy. We had a lot of problems with our specialty petunias reverting and also not holding their colour. I like to plant my urns with a big mix of different annuals, and let them duke it out.

Great video,thank you.

I planted a blue salvia in one of my pots in October. I’ve deadheaded it a few times and it’s starting to look sad. I’m in Arizona and the heat just amped up. I paid $15 for the plant (so a bigger one) and it really has grown by leaps and bounds. It started to be more robust end of March. I’m just hoping I can keep it alive throughout the summer. It’s in a pot I can’t really move.

The intense sun of Arizona is a different full sun than what we’re had in East Texas.

I got half inch plugs last year for my petunias ( unfortunately the ones that needed deadheading) but I only needed 5 of them to fill a 12 inch pot and over summer they were nicely trailing over.

In a large planter, do you fill the entire planter with potting soil, or do you use some type of filler (pool noodles, milk jugs, etc)? I find when it is all potting soil, the roots put all their energy into growing inside the planter, and not putting enough energy into producing flowers. Love your videos, you are very informative and honest.

Very good video. Thank you. I overplant nasturtiums…. Going to cut back to half this year.

Love all your advice.. thankyou

I truly enjoyed your tricks and tips, tks a bunch 🎉

Great advice! Finally common sense information. I hate pots that are over planted, crowded. It becomes survival of the fittest.

Hi Cory, native Michigander here (hailing from Holland) living in DFW. Oh, how I wish you were my neighbor! Seems I'm the only plant lady in my neck of the woods. I'm always outside tending to my babies. ❤ Since I can't find folks to talk gardening with, I get my fix listening to you. Thanks! Keep blooming 🌼

I've been gardening for 20 yrs and have stayed away from hanging baskets most of my life. I bought 1 from a nursery and it was not successful. Now I know it was definitely due to too many plants being put in the pot to make it look big. This gives me so much confidence in making hanging baskets this yr. I just bought all my flowers and now know I can make so many more hanging plants. The reason I love this channel is because so many nursery owners wouldn't give this info because it could mean people buying less plants from their business. The honesty and information we get from you not only makes us better gardeners but gives us so much education on different plants. It's because of this channel that 99% of the plants I bought this yr, I've never used. So excited to try new things.

Hello from Massachusetts. New viewer and subscriber here. Learning a lot from you! I have very good luck with New Guinea impatiens and sunpatiens

I love the PW rockin series! Deep purple, Fuchsia and Blue Suede Shoes. The plants are a show stopper and draw non-stop hummingbirds the whole season.

I use supertunias, geraniums, and New Guinea impatiens and begonias. People routinely comment on my flowers so I think its the soil prep, fertilizer and making sure the light and watering is fine.

Hi new viewer and subscriber and old old gardener. Want to thank you so much for this video. Learned the hard way less is more always. Others show putting so many in one pot and end result looks great now, but they can’t all possibly survive. I use the Rockin series and now one to a 15 inch container. Used three at one point plus others. Never worked well. Great to watch you. Thanks.

Just found your channel. Really like it. I like your less is more in containers. Thanks for all the info.