Showing posts with label container gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label container gardening. Show all posts
Small Space Solutions: Container Gardening
If you live in an apartment you may to be able to have a full size garden, but you can still have a really nice garden substitute and one of the best solutions for this, is to grow plants in
containers. You can create some really pretty arrangements with a little time and effort, never know you may even like growing your little beauties in containers.
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Container Gardening Tips for Newbies
Container gardens can create a natural sanctuary in a
busy city street, along rooftops or on balconies. You can easily accentuate the
welcoming look of a deck or patio with colorful pots of annuals, or fill your
window boxes with beautiful shrub roses or any number of small perennials.
Whether you arrange your pots in a group for a massed effect or highlight a
smaller space with a single specimen, you'll be delighted with this simple way
to create a garden.
Container gardening enables you to easily vary your color
scheme, and as each plant finishes flowering, it can be replaced with another.
Whether you choose to harmonize or contrast your colors, make sure there is
variety in the height of each plant. Think also of the shape and texture of the
leaves. Tall strap-like leaves will give a good vertical background to
low-growing, wide-leaved plants. Choose plants with a long flowering season, or
have others of a different type ready to replace them as they finish blooming.
Experiment with creative containers. You might have an
old porcelain bowl or copper urn you can use, or perhaps you'd rather make
something really modern with timber or tiles.
If you decide to buy your containers ready-made, terracotta pots look
wonderful, but tend to absorb water. You don't want your plants to dry out, so
paint the interior of these pots with a special sealer available from hardware
stores.
Cheaper plastic pots can also be painted on the outside
with water-based paints for good effect.
When purchasing pots, don't forget to buy matching saucers to catch the drips,
this will save cement floors getting stained, or timber floors rotting.
Always use a good quality potting mix in your containers.
This will ensure the best performance possible from your plants.
If you have steps leading up to your front door, an
attractive pot plant on each one will delight your visitors. Indoors, pots of
plants or flowers help to create a cozy and welcoming atmosphere.
Decide ahead of time where you want your pots to be
positioned, then buy plants that suit the situation. There is no point buying
sun lovers for a shady position, for they will not do well. Some plants also
have really large roots, so they are best kept for the open garden.
If you have plenty of space at your front door, a group
of potted plants off to one side will be more visually appealing than two
similar plants placed each side. Unless they are spectacular, they will look
rather boring.
Group the pots in odd numbers rather than even, and vary
the height and type. To tie the group together, add large rocks that are
similar in appearance and just slightly different in size. Three or five pots
of the same type and color will work even pots in different sizes of the same
color and types are also very effective. Using old ladders to place the pots on
will also add beauty.
With a creative mind and some determination, you will
soon have a container garden that will be the envy of friends and strangers
alike.
Container Gardening Tips for Newbies
Container gardens can create a natural sanctuary in a busy city street, along rooftops or on balconies. You can easily accentuate the welcoming look of a deck or patio with colourful pots of annuals, or fill your window boxes with beautiful shrub roses or any number of small perennials. Whether you arrange your pots in a group for a massed effect or highlight a smaller space with a single specimen, you'll be delighted with this simple way to create a garden.
Container gardening enables you to easily vary your color scheme, and as each plant finishes flowering, it can be replaced with another. Whether you choose to harmonize or contrast your colors, make sure there is variety in the height of each plant. Think also of the shape and texture of the leaves. Tall strap-like leaves will give a good vertical background to low-growing, wide-leaved plants. Choose plants with a long flowering season, or have others of a different type ready to replace them as they finish blooming.
Experiment with creative containers. You might have an old porcelain bowl or copper urn you can use, or perhaps you'd rather make something really modern with timber or tiles. If you decide to buy your containers ready-made, terracotta pots look wonderful, but tend to absorb water. You don't want your plants to dry out, so paint the interior of these pots with a special sealer available from hardware stores.
Cheaper plastic pots can also be painted on the outside with water-based paints for good effect. When purchasing pots, don't forget to buy matching saucers to catch the drips. This will save cement floors getting stained, or timber floors rotting. Always use a good quality potting mix in your containers. This will ensure the best performance possible from your plants.
If you have steps leading up to your front door, an attractive pot plant on each one will delight your visitors. Indoors, pots of plants or flowers help to create a cosy and welcoming atmosphere.
Decide ahead of time where you want your pots to be positioned, then buy plants that suit the situation. There is no point buying sun lovers for a shady position, for they will not do well. Some plants also have really large roots, so they are best kept for the open garden.
If you have plenty of space at your front door, a group of potted plants off to one side will be more visually appealing than two similar plants placed each side. Unless they are spectacular, they will look rather boring.
Group the pots in odd numbers rather than even, and vary the height and type. To tie the group together, add large rocks that are similar in appearance and just slightly different in size. Three or five pots of the same type and color, but in different sizes also looks affective.
With a creative mind and some determination, you will soon have a container garden that will be the envy of friends and strangers alike.
Container gardening enables you to easily vary your color scheme, and as each plant finishes flowering, it can be replaced with another. Whether you choose to harmonize or contrast your colors, make sure there is variety in the height of each plant. Think also of the shape and texture of the leaves. Tall strap-like leaves will give a good vertical background to low-growing, wide-leaved plants. Choose plants with a long flowering season, or have others of a different type ready to replace them as they finish blooming.
Experiment with creative containers. You might have an old porcelain bowl or copper urn you can use, or perhaps you'd rather make something really modern with timber or tiles. If you decide to buy your containers ready-made, terracotta pots look wonderful, but tend to absorb water. You don't want your plants to dry out, so paint the interior of these pots with a special sealer available from hardware stores.
Cheaper plastic pots can also be painted on the outside with water-based paints for good effect. When purchasing pots, don't forget to buy matching saucers to catch the drips. This will save cement floors getting stained, or timber floors rotting. Always use a good quality potting mix in your containers. This will ensure the best performance possible from your plants.
If you have steps leading up to your front door, an attractive pot plant on each one will delight your visitors. Indoors, pots of plants or flowers help to create a cosy and welcoming atmosphere.
Decide ahead of time where you want your pots to be positioned, then buy plants that suit the situation. There is no point buying sun lovers for a shady position, for they will not do well. Some plants also have really large roots, so they are best kept for the open garden.
If you have plenty of space at your front door, a group of potted plants off to one side will be more visually appealing than two similar plants placed each side. Unless they are spectacular, they will look rather boring.
Group the pots in odd numbers rather than even, and vary the height and type. To tie the group together, add large rocks that are similar in appearance and just slightly different in size. Three or five pots of the same type and color, but in different sizes also looks affective.
With a creative mind and some determination, you will soon have a container garden that will be the envy of friends and strangers alike.
Check out these container gardening ideas
Container Gardening
Sometimes, the urge to garden might be stomped out by other circumstances,
such as living arrangements or space constrictions. If you live in an apartment,
you can’t really operate a full garden, just because you don’t really have a
yard! I think that one of the best solutions for this problem is to grow plants
in containers. You can hang these, or just arrange them on your patio, window
sill or balcony. Just a few baskets or pots, and your whole living area will
look much classier and nicer.
A benefit of growing in small containers is the fact that
you can move them around to suit your needs. If you rearrange your furniture
and you think that it would look nicer if it was in the other area, it’s no trouble
at all to scoot it over. As long as the lighting is about the same, your plant
shouldn’t mind the transition at all. Another benefit of the containers’
versatility is the fact that you can adapt it to simulate any environment
depending on the type of soil you fill it with and where you place it.
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"God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures". ~Frances Bacon