Perhaps it’s time to freshen up your containers. Take a close look your container. If it’s looking tired—or you’re just plain tired of it!—liven it up with Icicle pansies, ornamental kales and cabbages, asters, ornamental grasses and a few small gourds or pumpkins. Add some herb plants for foliage interest and voila!, you have...
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Choosing Your Container • Choose containers in shapes and styles compatible with your house and landscape. Terra cotta, concrete and cast-iron are beautiful but heavy. Plastic is inexpensive and light, but not always aesthetically pleasing. Wood provides good insulation and can be painted to match house trim. Baskets lined with moss or plastic are...
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Start with healthy plants to help your container garden reach its full potential earlier in the season. Healthy plants bounce back faster after the inevitable traumas they encounter when moving from their small, temporary cell packs or pots to roomier quarters. Healthy plants also have more resources to muster if they need to thwart...
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Herbs make ideal low-maintenance container plants, mainly because most thrive on minimal water and food—within reason, of course. In the case of mints, a pot is the only way to go unless you don’t mind them galloping through your garden beds. Another practical reason to tend a herb garden above ground is convenience for...
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The beauty of container gardening is trying new plant and colour combinations every year. Here’s one I liked so much, I may recreate it again: 1 red-edged green New Zealand flax (Phormium cultivar) 1 golden box honeysuckle (Lonicera nitida ‘Baggesen’s Gold’) 1 weeping brown sedge (Carex flagellifera) 1 bronze-leaved sweet potato vine (Ipomoea batatas...
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