Ideas On How To Use Container Gardening To Decorate Your House And Garden
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Article by: Mary Hanna Nearly every house , What Are the Appropriate Plants for My Landscape and garden , Landscaping Your Patio presents numerous attractive settings for container plants. , Hammock Stands - How to Hang a Hammock if There Are No Trees Around Suburban gardens, , What Are the Appropriate Plants for My Landscape estates, small city backyards, , Hammock Stands - How to Hang a Hammock if There Are No Trees Around and summer , Step by Step Pruning for New Gardeners - Part I cottages"ā€¯all can be enhanced by this type of gardening. , Mix Perennials into Your Garden for Staying Power A few of the seemingly endless possibilities include entranceways, steps, courtyards, walls, , The Basics of Growing Roses rooftops, balconies, patios, , Edgeworthia Chrysantha breezeways, lawns, , Riding mower - Choices are Wide Open driveways, walks, sundecks, windowsills, porches, , Lap Pools – Great Exercise Inside Or Any Size Backyard summer , Gardening - Plumeria Plant Care houses, even tree , Amish Furniture on the Front Porch stumps can be utilized. Let us start with the entrance, a focal point for every house. , Seeding Your Lawn, Laid Bare A simple arrangement consists of similar container plants , Caring for Your Garden Furniture at each side of the doorway. If the house , A Bit About Bare Root Roses... is informal, painted tubs will make a cheerful note, while urns or ornamental pots , Rose Planting - Tips and Advice are more appropriate if the architecture is formal. The arrangement, however, need not be symmetrical, since a single container at either side, particularly if the doorway is off-center, is pleasing. A large specimen can be balanced by a grouping of small pots, , Growing Great Asparagus and various other interesting combinations can be worked out. Sometimes, the front entranceway can qualify as an outdoor , Porch Swing Places: Where to Put a Porch Swing place for house plants, , Gardening - Plumeria Care but be sure they are not exposed to strong sun , Abatement Conflicts with Eco-Systems and wind. Unexpected areas like side and rear entrances can also serve as backgrounds for pot plants , Organic Hydroponics - Simplified in casual groupings. For sunny steps, consider tubs of petunias, or dwarf dahlias, or boxes of herbs , Adirondack Chairs - How to Choose One to be used in cooking. Tuberous begonias, fuchsias, patient Lucy, and fragrant nicotiana solve the problem of what to grow , Seeding Your Lawn, Laid Bare in shade. Porches or verandas, traditional or contemporary in style, offer numerous settings for pots, , Adirondack Chairs - How to Choose One window , Step by Step Pruning for New Gardeners - Part I boxes, and hanging baskets. Indeed, the entire container garden , Caring for Your Furniture can be concentrated there so that plants , Simple Lawnmower Maintenance can be easily cared for. If the porch , You Take The Vacation - Not Your Garden is open on three sides, it will afford exposures to suit a variety of specimens. The patio , How To Build A Garden Bench or terrace, , Patio Table Covers beside or beyond the house, , Seeding Your Lawn, Laid Bare where family and friends gather to eat or relax, is an ideal location. , The Not So Common Day Lily If it is formal, select clipped evergreens and arrange pots , A Portable Perennial Garden in symmetrical rows, perhaps lined up against the house , Pine Furniture Care Guide or along the edge of the terrace. , Mowing the Lawn If the site is informal, make casual groupings of one or two tall plants , Water Ponds and Wildlife - How To Attract More Animals to Your Backyard with smaller ones in front. Either way, allow for a few large plants , Saving Seeds from Your Garden in tubs or boxes for accent and height. Container plants , Patio Table Covers may line walks and paths , The Basics of Growing Roses that lead to the house, , Flowers For U garage, , Don't Treat Your Soil Like Dirt or garden. , Edgeworthia Chrysantha They can rest on paved areas along fences and walls , Abatement Conflicts with Eco-Systems and on driveways where they are not in the way. If the driveway adjoins the foundation of the house, , How To Build A Garden Bench plant , How to Attract Birds to Your Backyard Paradise For Less Than $100 containers may be placed there. Tops of garden , The Basics of Plant Growth; (Part 2) Plant Energy or terrace walls , Abatement Conflicts with Eco-Systems are ideal places, , Porch Swing s: Where to Put a Porch Swing too. Put small pots , Thyme: The Herb of Courage and boxes on tall, narrow walls , Hammock Stands - How to Hang a Hammock if There Are No Trees Around and large containers on low, broad surfaces. Hanging plants , Thyme: The Herb of Courage of ivy geraniums in the sun , Growing and Harvesting Dill and fuchsias in the shade will cascade from walls, , How to Attract Birds to Your Backyard Paradise For Less Than $100 as they do in the patios , A Portable Perennial Garden of Spain, Portugal, and Italy. On Rhodes, I recall a fifteen-foot wall , Porch Swing Places: Where to Put a Porch Swing topped with a row of thirty gleaming green , Lawn Furniture: Wood, Metal, or Plastic? Classy, Convenient, or Cheap? tin cans full of roses , Garden Gnomes Inspire Cult Following Worldwide and other flowers. , Thyme: The Herb of Courage Think of what you can do with rooftops and sundecks where considerable space is usually available. Here sun-loving plants, , To Repot - or Not! like geraniums, most annuals, , The Basics of Plant Growth; (Part 2) Plant Energy cacti, and succulents , Porch Swing Places: Where to Put a Porch Swing can be grown, but, again, include large specimens for height to give a garden , To Repot - or Not! feeling. A few large boxes and planters for trees , Mix Perennials into Your Garden for Staying Power and shrubs , Zucchini: A Power House of Nutrition are sufficient but be sure to include some evergreens for year-round green. , Patio Table Covers Many gardeners like to insert container plants , Porch Swing Places: Where to Put a Porch Swing in flower , Adirondack Chairs - How to Choose One borders to introduce unusual specimens, such as tropicals , Edgeworthia Chrysantha in the North. Large tubs can be set at the corners and small pots , Gardening - Plumeria Plant Care may be scattered among the permanent flowering plants. , Organic Hydroponics - Simplified One gardener keeps a supply of potted pink , Gardening - Plumeria Plant Care Fiat Enchantress geraniums on hand to fill bare spots in her wide borders, moving them about as needed. Most of the geraniums are in four-inch clay pots, , Zucchini: A Power House of Nutrition but there are larger specimens for the center of each grouping. Make sure their secure, sink pots , Seeding Your Lawn, Laid Bare a few inches into the ground. You can always dress up the lamp post in your yard , Step by Step Pruning for New Gardeners - Part I with container plants , Zucchini: A Power House of Nutrition at the base or you can suspend a hanging basket of lantana, perhaps from the top. Ivy geraniums in an old-fashioned black kettle are nice for the base. Bare posts that support sectional roofs , Simple Lawnmower Maintenance over patios , Pine Furniture Care Guide or paved surfaces of contemporary houses , Saving Seeds from Your Garden look more attractive if potted plants , The Basics of Growth; (Part 2) Plant Energy are clustered around the bases or permanent boxes for plants , Zucchini: A Power House of Nutrition are built there. Try planting climbing ivy in a pot , Lawn Furniture: Wood, Metal, or Plastic? Classy, Convenient, or Cheap? and train it to climb the posts. Novelty containers"ā€¯donkey carts, wheelbarrows, and spinning wheels"ā€¯can be fun in some places, , Thyme: The Herb of Courage but, of course, such planters must not be overdone. Usually they are set on lawns, , You Can Grow Your Own Herb Garden - Part 6 on a terrace , Caring for Your Garden Furniture or beside a gate or doorway. (If you life in a neighborhood that has a house , What Are the Appropriate Plants for My Landscape owners association check with them first to see if this is allowed). Steps leading to a driveway or street or to different levels in a garden , You Can Grow Your Own Herb - Part 6 can be emphasized with pot plants. , Vermiculture: Indoor Composting and Organic Soil Improvement A few can be arranged at the top or at the base of the stairs. And, there are other possibilities. Tree , Saving Seeds from Your Garden trunks cut to the ground or left a few feet high make good pedestals for large containers. In fact, this can be a solution to the problem of what to do with a trunk too expensive to remove. If you have a tree , Water Ponds and Wildlife - How To Attract More Animals to Your Backyard with heavy shade, why not construct a pretty sitting area around it and decorate , Amish Furniture on the Front Porch the space with containers of coleus, wax and other begonias, caladiums, ferns and other shade-tolerant plants. , Thyme: The Herb of Courage These are just a few ideas for using container plants , Growing and Harvesting Dill around your house , Simple Lawnmower Maintenance and garden. , Decorating Outdoor Decks and Patios With Themes Use your imagination and have fun. Happy Gardening! , - Plumeria Plant Care Copyright Ā© 2006 Mary Hanna All Rights Reserved. This article may be distributed freely on your website and in your ezines, as long as this entire article, copyright notice, links and the resource box are unchanged.About the Author: Mary Hanna is an Aspiring Herbalist who lives in Central Florida. This allows her to grow gardens , Makeover On A Budget inside and outside , Growing and Harvesting Dill year round. She has published other articles on Gardening, , Have Year Round Color by Planting for Birds Cooking and Cruising. Visit her websites at http://www.ContainerGardeningSecrets.com http://www.GardeningLandscapingTips.com and http://www.CruiseTravelDirectory.com or contact her at mary@containergardeningsecrets.com |
  
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