This common phrase is great to use when creating your own planter combinations! We have compiled some of our favorites in each category, for both full sun and full shade! Keep in mind, there are different varieties of the same plant. So, for example, you will see I have Licorice Vine in both the Spillers and Fillers Categories. This is because there is a trailing variety and an upright variety of the same plant...and so on. Also, this is what we interpret each category to mean:
Spiller: A trailing plant. Whether it blooms or is just a foliage plant, it will hang down over the side of your planter nonetheless.
Filler: A bushy or compact growing plant. Not necessarily the star of the show, but a great splash of color or texture.
Thriller: A bold, beautiful, centerpiece or show stopper. Typically the tallest plant in the arrangement, but not always.
Full Sun - Part Shade:
Spillers:
Calibrochoas
Trailing Petunias
Creeping Charlie
Creeping Jenny
Licorice Vine
Lotus Vine
Bacopa
Lofos
Vinca Vines
Dicondra Silver Falls
Euphorbia Blue my mind
Sweet potato vine
Lotus Vine
Lobularia
Mecardonia
Swedish Ivy
Scaevola
Trailing verbena
Fillers:
Diascia
Euphorbia - Diamond Frost
Swedish Ivy
Petunias
Licorice Vine
Brachyscomb
Bidens
Cuphea
Lantana
Nemesia
Petcocha
Mounding Petunias
Sanvitalia Sunbini
Upright Verbena
Thrillers:
Geraniums
Spikes
Cordylines
Dahlias
Salvia
Purple Fountain Grass
Coleus
Cuphea
Gerbera Daisy
Heliotrope
Sun Patients
Osteospermum Daisy's (African Daisy's)
Tut Grasses:
- Baby Tut - 18-24" tall
- Prince Tut - 18-30" tall
- King Tut - 48-72" tall
Full Shade - Morning Sun
Spillers:
Trailing Begonias
Browallia
Fuschias
Sweet potato vine
Lotus Vine
Creeping Jenny
Bonfire Begonia
Wire Vine
Vinca Vines
Fillers:
Begonias
Impatiens
Ferns
Hostas
Grasses
Thrillers:
Begonias
New Guinea Impatiens
Dragon Wing Begonias
Ferns
Hostas
Purple Fountain Grass
Spikes
Cordylines