Container Gardening Tips for Newbies

Container gardens are a truly a wonderful method of creating beautiful additions to your landscaping. You can very easily compliment 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. Depending on 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 an organic container garden.


In truth, container gardening enables you to easily alter your color scheme, and as each plant grows to its fullest potential in flowering, it can be replaced with another or you can build around it. Whether you choose to harmonize or contrast your colors, you will want to make sure there is variety in the height of each plant. Think also of the shape and texture of the leaves. When arranging, be aware that tall strap-like leaves will give a good vertical background to low-growing, wide-leaved plants. Try to select plants with a long flowering season, or you can have other varieties ready to replace them as they finish blooming.


You must experiment with creative containers and if you look carefully around you home and garage yo will find plenty I am sure!! Try to find an old porcelain bowl, copper urn or even an old crock pot you can use.  You may choose 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, remember to buy matching saucers to catch the drips to keep your floors from staining


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Always use a good quality potting mix in your containers. This will ensure the best performance possible from your plants. 

An attractive pot plant on each stair leading up to your door will delight your visitors and when it come to the indoors, pots of plants or flowers help to create a cosy and welcoming atmosphere for your guests. 

Attempt to make a plan and determine ahead of time where you want your pots to be positioned, then buy plants that will accomplish the look you are trying for.  Be advised that you will not buy sun loving plants for a shady position, for the outcome will not be the one you wished for!  Also be advised that 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 effective. 


With a creative mind and some determination, you will soon have a container garden that will be the envy of friends and strangers alike.




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