Discover more pots from Jo Thompson<\/strong><\/p> How to achieve the look<\/strong><\/p> Container and composition<\/strong><\/p> I bought this unassuming container in a garden centre. Its simplicity and dumpy shape makes it the ideal foil for this composition, made up of layers of late-summer and autumnal foliage<\/a>.<\/p> The majority of the foliage in this combination looks very similar. The heucheras and heucherellas are sometimes harder to place in beds and borders, but here they find a happy home in a container, their leaves jostling and complementing each other at the same time.<\/p> The tea-coloured tones of x Heucherella<\/em> \u2018Sweet Tea\u2019 have a kind of colour-shifting alchemy going on. These enormous star-like leaves shine ever brighter in shades of cinnamon and burnt orange as autumn approaches. Then, just when you think the colour can\u2019t get any more intense, they start to get darker. Come autumn, they brighten up once more. This strange behaviour makes them the perfect partner for other related foliage: the ostentatious black ruffles of Heuchera<\/em> \u2018Black Pearl\u2019 are an excellent foil to the shining patterns of Heuchera<\/em> \u2018Frosted Violet Dream\u2019 and the silvery shapes of x Heucherella <\/em>\u2018Pink Fizz\u2019.<\/p> Cultivation and care<\/strong><\/p> All of these plants enjoy a moist soil and will be happy in a peat-free, loam-based compost<\/a>, provided you keep an eye on the pot to ensure it doesn\u2019t dry out, and snip off the flower spires as they go over. It will also tolerate a little bit of shade.<\/p> Plants<\/strong><\/p> x Heucherella<\/em> \u2018Pink Fizz\u2019<\/strong> Large, deeply lobed, green leaves with a light silvering and heavy wine-red to deep-purple veining. Pure-pink flowers <\/a>emerge out of hot-pink buds. May \u2013 October. 50cm x 50cm. RHS H6, USDA 5a-9b.<\/p> Heuchera<\/em> \u2018Black Pearl\u2019 <\/strong>Jet-black ruffled leaves and slightly pinkish-white flowers.<\/a> May \u2013 October. 30cm x 30cm. RHS H6.<\/p> Bergenia<\/em> \u2018Pink Dragonfly\u2019 <\/strong>Oval, evergreen leaves with clusters of vivid-pink spring flowers. 30cm x 30cm. RHS H6, USDA 4a-9b.<\/p> Heuchera<\/em> \u2018Frosted Violet Dream\u2019 <\/strong>Serrated foliage of deepest purple with hue of violet blue. Its long spires of white flowers<\/a> are pink in bud. 60cm x 60cm. RHS H6, USDA 4a-9b.<\/p>![\"Plants](\"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2024\/10\/JI_260923_POSJoThompson_074_preview-edited-scaled.jpg\")