Best Flowers for Pots

Petunia

Look for the Supertunia Vista Bubblegum, a type of nonstop flowering, easy-growing petunia. It never needs to be deadheaded and still keeps blooming — and growing. Plants form a pretty mound 12 to 24 inches high with stems trailing up to 3 feet. It’s gorgeous in a pot, delivering punches of color until hard fall frost.

Snapdragon

For sunny spots and high heat, it’s tough to beat the flower show that summer snapdragon stages. Also known as Angelonia, this annual unfurls flower spikes in shades of purple, pink, white and bicolor blends. Blooms beckon butterflies all summer long and make perfect additions to garden-fresh bouquets.

Lantana

Lantana is a showstopper in container gardens, producing flowers in rich tones of pink, orange, gold and purple. Butterflies and hummingbirds adore lantana, so they'll attract wildlife to your garden. And lantana loves heat. Once temperatures start to sizzle, the flower fest begins and doesn't stop until fall frost.

Sunflower

Everybody loves sunflowers but not everybody has room for these towering plants. Sunray is a dwarf variety that gets just 22 inches high, making them the Munchkins of sunflowers, so they’re perfect for a pot. The compact plants bear as many as 14 blooms per stalk, with each flower measuring about 4 inches in diameter. They're annuals and they’re easy to grow from seed.

Marigolds

Marigolds are a classic sun-loving plant and they’re super easy to grow. Endurance marigolds are a hybrid that produce orange blooms measuring 3 inches across on plants that reach about a foot high. They're disease- and drought-resistant plants that bloom continuously all summer if you deadhead them.