Container Gardening Articles
Using the best potting soil is a simple way to get your outdoor container gardens off to a great start.
For unbelievable beauty anywhere you want it, grow hydrangeas in pots and put it where you need it to go! Porch, driveway, balcony, sidewalk, deck. If you can dream it, chances are you can beautify it. No matter if your spot has full sun, dappled shade, or something in between, there’s a hydrangea you can display there.
Think of any spot in your garden and there’s likely an ornamental grasses selection to fit. This versatile group of plants suits all sorts of uses in landscapes and containers, making landscaping with ornamental grasses both practical and beautiful, even in water gardens and ornamental grasses for containers. Though most prefer quite a bit of sunshine, some grasses can handle filtered shade. Let’s take a look at five ways on how to use ornamental grasses in your garden this season.
Color is the soul of every garden and the main way in which you express your style and personality in the garden. Each color has its own impact and meaning when used in a garden. I have been slowly writing my way through the colors of the rainbow and how to use them in gardens. I have already written about chartreuse , black, white and orange. In this article, I will cover using red in the garden.
When you head to the garden center this spring, you’ll find more patterned flowers than ever before. All those stripes, speckles and pinwheels are dazzling but it takes a little know-how to pair them with other flowers in container recipes. Here are five creative ways to design spectacular container recipes using patterned flowers.
You’ve seen gorgeous container recipes in pictures, but how do you get that look? It takes some time to learn how to design container combinations like a pro, but we have a few key tips that will prompt a successful start. Let’s take a look at five guidelines for choosing container companions.
What comes to mind when you hear the word “gardening”? Some immediately think of hard work: tilling the soil, pulling the weeds, planting crops, getting your hands dirty. Others consider gardening to be a way to reconnect with nature after a stressful day at work, a way to help feed pollinators, a means to be able to grow what they eat, or an artistic expression of oneself. No matter your answer, we should all have one reason in common: Gardening is fun!
YES! It’s a great way to gain more garden space, and it’s something that we do frequently in our trial gardens to specially showcase new varieties. Best of all, container shrubs are easy to do!
Create a container garden even a vampire could love by utilizing plants with dark foliage container garden and flowers.
