Container gardening
Can I Leave a Shrub or Tree in a Pot All Winter?
Here are the guidelines for knowing if your plants will live through the winter in the pots or boxes where they are growing.
Read MoreContainers In The Fall ~ You Have Options!
See how to dress up your containers for fall or fill them with spring bulbs. Learn why you should empty some pots for the winter.
Read MoreQ & A From Last Week’s Happy Hour
Questions answered about combining plants in containers, if we can plant summer annuals outside now, and fertilizing annual pots.
Read MoreSpring Container Ideas
Containers that are planted with spring flowers will lift your spirits through May. Here are ideas for cheerful plant combinations.
Read MoreHaving Fun With Pots
Get creative with flower pots and plants, indoors in the winter and outside in the coming summer: cheerful, mood-lifting activities.
Read MoreContainer Gardening ~ 12 Tips for Success
You can grow vegetables, flowers, herbs, shrubs and trees in pots. Here are 12 tips for success for container gardening.
Read MoreChoosing Plants For Window Boxes
In the old days, window boxes and pots got filled zonal geraniums (Pelargoniums), some variegated trailing vinca (Vinca minor) and perhaps some “spikes” (Dracaena). Although all of those plants are still available for people who want them, there are scores more to choose from. In fact, there are so many annuals and tropicals available that…
Read MoreHoliday Pots That You Plant In The Garden
Do you want to fill your containers with attractive winter plants that can then go into your garden in the spring? If so, this post is for you. At this time of year many want to fill their pots, urns and window boxes with greens for the holidays and beyond. Some stick cut greens right…
Read MoreContainer and Window Box Ideas
One of the best ways of being creative in the landscape is to plant containers filled with flowering annuals, succulents, shrubs or trees. You can create a garden in pots on the deck, soften hard spaces such as driveways and walls, or fill window boxes with cheerful color that lasts all summer. Here are some…
Read MorePots With A Sense of Place
The containers we use on our porches, decks and patios are one way that we give our yards and gardens “a sense of place.” Our pots, urns and boxes can celebrate the natural world near the sea, but do so in a subtle way that doesn’t distract from the plants or the house. Large collections…
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