The colors for Easter are purple and white, and you can incorporate colorful flowering plants in a planter to help celebrate the season. To add some charm, add a few Easter-themed decorations, such as rabbits or Easter eggs.
Plants for an Easter-Themed Planter
This Easter-themed purple and white container garden include these plants: wallflower, pansies, dusty miller, and lamium – a mixture of early spring flowering plants and silver/white colored leaves.
To create the container garden below, you will need to select these spring-flowering plants and accompanying fillers:
Lamium White Nancy (Lamium maculatum)
Also known as spotted dead nettle, this plant has silvery leaves with a green margin. It produces white flowers in small clusters in late spring. It can grow in full sun or full shade in zones 3 to 8. Usually, we think of Lamium as a ground cover, but in a container, it will fill in between the flowers and even spill a bit over the edge of the planter.
This lamium grows to about 6 inches in height, so place your plants accordingly. It is a perennial, so when you’re done with your Easter-themed container garden, move it to your permanent garden.
Pansies (Viola spp)
Pansies come in a variety of colors, so seek out the shades of purple for this Easter planter. They will grow in part shade to full sun. In the sun, they produce a lovely, sweet smell.
Pansies are quite cold-tolerant and will survive a cold snap. They prefer moist, rich, well-drained soil. Water them regularly for the best results. If you want continuous blooms in the spring, deadhead spent flowers.
Wallflower (Erysimum linofolium ‘Bowles Mauve’)
The Bowles Mauve wallflower is a taller flowering plant, reaching up to 2.5 feet. It prefers full sun but will tolerate partial shade. It is drought tolerant but has an average water requirement. Wallflowers need well-drained soils for best results. It’s very low maintenance and attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
Dusty miller (Jacobaea maritima)
Dusty miller’s velvety, silver leaves are a lovely addition to this purple and white flower planter for Easter. Dusty Miller prefers well-drained soil and has an average water requirement. It is drought tolerant. It performs best in sun, becoming a bit leggy in shade. It can grow as tall as 3 feet. In some zones, it is a perennial.
Easter Planter
All of these flowers are early spring bloomers and are a mixture of sun to part-shade plants. The Dusty Miller provides spectacular fuzzy silver foliage that perfectly pairs with the purple flowers along with the white leaves and flowers of the Lamium.
It’s a great Easter-themed planter and is doing very well in this container.
