In winter, designing a beautiful container is more about artfully arranging cut branches than growing colourful plants. However, the design principles you follow for summer or spring planters still apply: a variety of textures; a focal point; and a well-balanced composition help make a beautiful display. Select a container that contrasts well with what will be mostly a … [Read more...] about Designing a beautiful winter container
Container Gardening
How to overwinter perennials in pots
Herbaceous perennials in pots — plants that die back and are dormant in winter — that have been part of your summer container displays need to be protected over the winter if they’re going to survive and bloom again next year. Here's how to overwinter perennials in pots. Hardy perennials have roots that sleep until next spring, which is when they begin to put on new growth. A … [Read more...] about How to overwinter perennials in pots
4 quick-snip edible plants for containers
While there’s nothing like an abundant harvest to make a gardener feel super successful, I find a mountain of zucchini in August less useful than a year-round supply of nutritious, edible leaves provided by a cut-and-come-again edible garden plants using container gardening. Best of all, a snip-able bounty grown in containers can be kept in partial shade to discourage … [Read more...] about 4 quick-snip edible plants for containers
My Garden Containers app
Garden Making provides the My Garden Containers app so you can enjoy gorgeous containers in your entranceway or on your porch, patio or balcony. My Garden Containers helps you create stunning plant combinations for beautiful containers by giving you the confidence to mix and match plants using design techniques practiced by professionals. You can photograph and document your … [Read more...] about My Garden Containers app
9 fabulous edibles for kitchen garden
I'm always amazed by how much food I harvest ongoingly from our patio planters. I pop back and forth from kitchen to garden throughout the summer to pick strawberries, blueberries, currants — even figs and apples — from a cluster of terracotta pots outside the back door. And thanks to the slipper-friendly gravel leading to it, I don’t even need to bother putting on shoes when I … [Read more...] about 9 fabulous edibles for kitchen garden
