Gardening containers - the quickest way to create a veritable oasis out of your concrete jungle with the use of pots, window planter boxes and hanging baskets
Containers come in all shapes and sizes, which makes them ideal for being creative and showing off your flair for gardening designs in any outdoor area to showcase your taste and lifestyle. They can be placed anywhere that you want to accentuate or hide, and can even be hung by the use of hanging baskets. Even if you only have window sills – window planter boxes make perfect containers.
Containers enable you to be as creative as your imagination will allow. Would you like a tropical feel in your yard or garden? – use palm trees, yuccas, canna lilies, castor oil plants, anything with large succulent foliage. Or perhaps Mediterranean? - geraniums in all colors, cordylines, palms, herbs. How about an English garden? – roses, lavender, fuchsias. What about Moroccan? Your choices are totally limitless when gardening with containers!
As long as the container you have chosen for your gardening has good compost and drainage – and you use fertilizer and water regularly (particularly in warm weather) – you can grow most anything! Imagine picking your own grapes from the trailing vine you have growing in an attractive container, and which you can train to grow over an arbour or just along the wall!
By using various styles of containers in your chosen gardening scheme – combining different sizes of pots and placing along with hanging baskets, you can create stunning displays. These can look particularly good when using large plants such as palm trees, yuccas and cordylines to give height to the display with bushy flowering plants and trailing foliage below. Window planter boxes are not just for window sills – you can hang them on walls or balcony railings too.
As long as there are drainage holes, you can be as inventive as you want when choosing
a container for your gardening. You can use old watering cans, metal pots, Belfast sinks, wheelbarrows, pot bellied stoves – anything that will make your display an eye-catching feature. Place several pots of various shapes and sizes together to make a large colorful array. Make sure that you provide good support (like trellis) if growing climbing plants such as roses, clematis, honeysuckle, etc.
Would you like your own orchard of fruit trees? Even these can be grown in container pots – fruits like apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, apricots, kumquats, oranges and lemons to name but a few. Soft fruits like berries can be grown in baskets and look great hanging in displays. The beauty of growing your own fruit is you know they are chemical free and not force grown.
One great plus to using containers as your gardening vehicle is their portability! Just like the interiors of your home - when you feel like a change just move the pots! Change your garden to match your mood!!
Another plus with using a container is the fact that it will be very rare that you will need to do any weeding – which has to be a major factor when it comes to maybe only having limited time to devote to your gardening.
If you live in a climate that allows you to use your garden at night, don’t forget to plant fragrant species such as honeysuckle, jasmine, lavender, night scented stock, etc.
And don’t forget ambience……. with the added feature of candles or uplighters placed amongst the containers in your garden you could have a little piece of heaven right here on earth.
Seasons come, and seasons go! By gardening in containers you can come and go right along with them and have year round color! So say goodbye to concrete jungle, and say hello to Paradise - in as little as one day - and all with the use of practical and attractive containers for all your gardening.
