In this container gardening video, you get container garden ideas and tips on how to choose colours and combine plants. You can create a gorgeous container that looks full and beautiful from the start. You will learn basics for how to design a container garden.
Garden Making Editor-in-Chief Beckie Fox provides these pointers about container gardening:
- Plan first; plant later. From where will the container be seen? What’s the backdrop?
- Think about which plants are thrillers, which are fillers and and which are spillers
- How to mix colours and textures, flowers and foliage
- Easy ideas for design
- How many plants to put in each container? Lots!
More on container gardening from Garden Making:
- Video: Container Gardening Primer
- Article: Easy steps to gorgeous containers
- Article: Buying good plants for containers
Thanks for mentioning about how to know what colors go with each others. I will be looking into knowing how to do this with my own flowers. I will keep these tips in mind for the future.