Check Out These 4 Easy Steps to Creating a Beautiful Container Garden
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Container gardens are compact, mobile showcases for beautiful blooms and striking foliage. You don't have to be a master gardener or a landscape architect to craft a container garden that will be the perfect highlight for your outdoor space. Use these 4 simple steps and create a container garden you and your family will love!
There are so many things to love about container gardens. They need little space, so they're just right for even the smallest garden. They're mobile, so you can keep your container garden out by the side patio to enjoy while you're relaxing, and then move it out to the back deck for your guests to enjoy during your next cookout. Container planting gives you complete control over soil composition and drainage, which are both key for plant health and can be tricky to manage with conventional gardening. Weeds aren't such an issue with container gardening as they are with conventional gardening, and a container garden's mobility means that you can bring it inside to protect your plants during harsh weather. You can also enjoy your plants up close with a container garden, because you can bring your favorite flowers right up onto your deck, while the rest of your garden is stuck rooted out in the yard. What's not to love?
The first step to starting a container garden is choosing your container. Look at the space where you want to put your container garden and decide on the size and number of containers you would like to have.
This is the fun part! There are so many ways to design your container garden. To create an eye-catching display, gardener Dave Epstein recommends choosing three types of plants: what he calls a "thriller," a "filler," and a "spiller." The "thriller" is a striking, eye-catching plant that is often taller than the others and brightly-colored. The "filler" fills the center of the container and is usually a plant with attractive foliage, and the "spiller" has blooms or eye-catching foliage that spill out of the container. Trailing petunias (see photo above) make an excellent "spiller." The colors of the plants should either blend together and complement each other, or contrast and cause each other to "pop."
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Published September 2nd, 2015 8:00 AM
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Lessie.sims48 on May 20, 2019
I AM GONNA TRY THIS....THANKS FOR ALL THE TIPS...
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