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Container Gardening Idea - Container Gardening Tip
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-leafed 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, and 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 look 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.
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