Container Gardening

Beautiful holiday container with berries, greens, pods and curly branches. (Garden Making photo)

Designing a beautiful winter container

Beckie Fox

Designing a beautiful winter container is more about artfully arranging cut branches than growing colourful plants in your outdoor planter.

Hostas are easy to overwinter in containers.

How to overwinter perennials in pots

Beckie Fox

Herbaceous perennials in pots — plants that die back and are dormant in winter — need to be protected. Here's 3 ways for overwintering perennials in pots.

Parsley leaves

4 quick-snip edible plants for containers

Carol Pope

Here's how to create a year-round supply of nutritious, edible garden plants in a cut-and-come-again garden with container gardening.

My Garden Containers app

Michael Fox

The My Garden Containers app helps you to create stunning plant combinations for beautiful containers by giving you confidence to mix and match plants.

Carol Pope's compact but bountiful kitchen container garden. (All photos by Carol Pope)

9 fabulous edibles for kitchen garden

Carol Pope

From the cluster of terracotta pots in her container kitchen garden, Carol Pope picks herbs, strawberries, blueberries, currants, and even figs and apples.

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