A pillar a filler and a spiller

 So that is how Monty Don, Britain's favorite gardener, says you should design a pot.  A pillar is a large upright plant, a filler is a bushy plant and a spiller is a trailing plant. So I attempted to follow that rule today although I probably failed miserably.

 For my pillar I got a gorgeous black foliage dahlia that has orange yellow blossom, my filler is dusty miller, a plant that only grows about 6 inches but has a bushy upright habit.  For the spiller, I could not resist a lovely Black Mamba Petunia.  Hopefully they all play nice and the petunia does not overwhelm everything.