this video is brought to you by Osmocote the planters plant food okay so now here's a really cool urban garden trend this is a covered trash can but I'm going to use it for planting one of the coolest Reds ever put the pedal to the metal using galvanized containers as planters now this is very inexpensive under $20 for a good sized planter that's going to weather well but you have to add drainage holes and what I have found works best is if you actually take a hammer and you pound a nail so that you're just starting a hole and then you use the drill and drill these larger holes so once I have that done you can recycle these plastic nursery pots and use these in the bottom of your container gardens and that fills up room and keeps them lightweight and sometimes I also use water bottles now I like to look for a potting soil that already has fertilizer in it that way I know that the plants could have nutrition but if you're using a generic potting soil like I'm going to do here you can just add the fertilizer once you get the potting soil in place so let's go ahead and add the soil and get planting now when it comes to choosing plants for these heavy metal garden design I'm going to do I want to go bold and go with bold foliage now this is a canna canna Tropicana this is a beautiful yellow striped one the gold one but canna Tropicana also comes in one that is black it's actually kind of burgundy color and I choose one of these as the main plant or the thriller plant so an easy way to get these out of their pot is to just bang them on the side and they slip out now here's where I put my gloves on I want to loosen up the soil so that the roots are loosened from that shape of the pot they Orion this is going to help the plants spread its roots out this is going to be the front of the pot I'm going to put this canna towards the back and then I'm going to go with a great filler plant and this is a quart aligned festival grass and I'm going to put that off to the side so it doesn't hide the next plant that I put in which is a euphorbia and I love this glacier blue euphorbia because it's silvery picks up the silvery color of this metal container at this point I'm going to add some vegetables so I took these cabbage plants and you see how dance the roots are you really got a butterfly them that means pull them out like this I am going to make sure that these get plenty of the Osmocote fertilizer and then this big bold purple foliage is going to add some highlights and echo the color of the purple that's in the festival grass and then the little silvery sheen will highlight the euphorbia it's going to be a great explosion of color with very little maintenance because bold foliage makes for a great contemporary garden design but before I go too much farther I'll measure out the fertilizer now I love that the Osmocote it comes with a cap that perfectly measures the amount that is good for one pot so I sprinkle this around all the plants so now I'm going to go ahead and add more soil on top once I've got the soil all settled around if the container is not too heavy I'd like to pick it up a couple of drops and it helps settle that soil down and this pot planted in a metal container is ready to go with the other plants that are bold foliage plants that I've also put the pedal to the metal so let's see how it looks okay all you trendy gardeners here is the galvanized metal look it is very hip upscale and urban you can see in the back we've got festival quarter line grass growing in a window box type garden then we have our shiny galvanized container that we planted on camera right next to it is wine corks that I used for mulch and there's Artemisia and then I matched that with another plant with silvery foliage that spills over the edge that is called dichondra silver Falls then on the ground we've got another old bucket the quarter line festival grass is the pink spiky grass like material and then the big bold leaves of the canna Tropicana and then there's lime green sweet potato vine and then finally we have a tall narrow French cut flower container and this one is tall so I put a tall morning light Miscanthus grass in the back to give it that height and then added a touch of purple with the purple sweet potato vine more of the purple cabbage and then just a little bit of white white cosmos because they also will grow tall so there you've got galvanized metal containers what are the hottest trends for your patio pots