You can enjoy gorgeous pots with your container gardening. Here's a list with 6 container gardening tips from Garden Making Editor-in-Chief Beckie Fox: 1. Choosing Your Container • Choose containers in shapes and styles compatible with your house and landscape. Terra cotta, concrete and cast-iron are beautiful but heavy. Plastic is inexpensive and light, but not … [Read more...] about 6 container gardening tips for gorgeous pots
Container gardening
Herbs are perfect for growing in pots
Herbs make ideal low-maintenance container plants, mainly because most thrive on minimal water and food — within reason, of course. In the case of mints, a pot is the only way to go unless you don’t mind them galloping through your garden beds. Another practical reason to tend a herb garden above ground is convenience for the cook. I cluster several terra-cotta pots around the … [Read more...] about Herbs are perfect for growing in pots
Freshen up containers for fall
Perhaps it's time to freshen up your containers for fall. Take a close look your container. If it’s looking tired — or you’re just plain tired of it — then it's easy to change. Liven it up with Icicle pansies, ornamental kales and cabbages, asters, ornamental grasses and a few small gourds or pumpkins. Add some herb plants for foliage interest and voila!, you have a new … [Read more...] about Freshen up containers for fall
Sunny combo for your container gardening
The beauty of container gardening is trying new plant and colour combinations every year. Here a sunny container combo that I liked so much, I may recreate it again: 1 red-edged green New Zealand flax (Phormium cultivar) 1 golden box honeysuckle (Lonicera nitida ‘Baggesen’s Gold’) 1 weeping brown sedge (Carex flagellifera) 1 bronze-leaved sweet potato vine … [Read more...] about Sunny combo for your container gardening
