Tuck containers right into your garden. Plot them into the ferns. Let the hostas host them. Put them where you need to fill in or need a jolt of moveable color. Put them on the deck, by the mailbox, outside the garage door, among the roses.
Gardening is a bit like painting.
You create appealing compositions with your interplay of color, form, scale and texture, creating balancing via repetition and contrast. Use plants in containers to soften the stark look of dead zones along a deck, walls, fence or side-yard walkway. Here, caladiums cuddle with lilies. Three to five colors work nicely as a base. For the zinger, add yellow lantana.