Container Flower Gardens
Charlene Zatloukal
Container flower gardens are so versatile that you can create a natural presence alongside a busy street, on a rooftop or a balcony. You can create a warm and inviting feel on a deck or patio with a few well placed planters filled with shrub roses and azaleas. You can give your home a cozy cottage feel by adding some window boxes with beautiful petunias or geraniums. Whether you arrange your containers in groups for a large garden feel or place single containers in several smaller spaces, container flower gardens are a fun way to turn boring empty spaces into beautiful sanctuaries.
With container flower gardens, you can easily vary color schemes, plantings, and varieties. Whether you are going for similar color schemes or you’re happier with a contrast of colors, you might want to try to have a variety in the height of each plant. Consider the shape and texture of the plant leaves. Tall narrower leaves will give a good vertical background, or midground, to low-growing, wide-leaved border plants. Choose healthy plants with the longest flowering season.
Experiment with different kinds of creative containers. An old porcelain bowl, properly prepared, would make a lovely container for a culinary herb garden. Even the basket attached to the handlebars of a vintage bicycle could be used as a container for a marigold variety. If you’re the handy type, you might want make something a little more modern with cedar wood or heavy duty tiles. Do keep in mind, if you’ve decided to use something like terracotta pots, while they do look wonderful and they’re easy to use, they do tend to absorb water. So that your plants won’t dry out, you’ll need to paint the interior of these pots with a special sealer available from hardware stores, that is not harmful to the soil or the plants. For additional color possibilities, you can even paint the outside of these pots with some inexpensive acrylic craft paints available in your local arts and crafts supply. There are a number of paints that will hold up very well to outdoor elements. Whenever possible, try to buy matching terra cotta saucers so the water will not run all over your cement or wooden flooring. Always use a good quality potting mix, with earthworm castings, in your containers. This will ensure the best performance possible from your plants.
Garden containers can be placed on steps leading up to a front door, lining one or both sides of a driveway, or hanging on either side of a porch, patio or other entry way. Container flower gardens can also be grown indoor to create or extend the cozy and welcoming atmosphere of your home. Indoor plantings do require a bit more planning as you’ll want to decide where you want which containers to be placed and buy plants that suit each container’s position. You wouldn’t want to purchase plants that need lots of sun in a spot that is mostly shade.
Do some experimenting and be imaginative in creating your container flower garden. It might be your nature to go for a balanced look and opt to have the same kinds of plants and containers on each side of your front door, while placing a large group of containers to one side of the door, with only one or two containers on the other side of the door might actually be more visually appealing. Do keep in mind that the container sizes should not all be the same height, especially in groups. You not only want all of your plants to be seen, you’ll want to be sure they all get ample sunlight.
Be creative, don’t be afraid to experiment. Container flower gardens are not only, often more visually appealing, they are are so much easier to manage than tradional gardens. Flowers and #vegetables# can both be grown in containers and displaying them together can make for very interesting container flower gardens.
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