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Design Forecast: Container Gardening

A popular trend this year, container gardening offers a variety of ways to decorate your exterior spaces.While we wait for spring flowers to return to our landscapes, now is a good time to think about our summer garden plans. If you had [...]

Posted On : Mar, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Container gardening with bulbs

Spring bulbs perform well in patio pots and planters as long as they drain well and the containers are wooden, concrete, glass fiber or of some other frost-proof material. Large containers are perfect for bulbs such as tulips and large-c [...]

Posted On : Nov, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Container gardening eco friendly tips for saving soil

We love the look and convenience of container gardening: from the beautiful flowers to the edible vegetables. The one problem is the large amount of soil and/or compost they can gobble up. From years of trial and error, we have come up wit [...]

Posted On : Apr, 08 2009 | Comments : 0

Container Vegetable Gardening at Bartlett Arboretum

Container gardening requires very little space and it does not have problems with critters. This class will discuss the types of containers that can be used, suggested soil mix, location of the containers, watering requirements, suggested v [...]

Posted On : Apr, 02 2009 | Comments : 0

Container gardening for anyone who's killed a plant

Container planting can turn the best gardener into a weeping willow. Pamela Crawford should know; the trained landscape architect and gardening author claims she's killed more than 3,000 plants in her quest to find the finickiest of flora. [...]

Posted On : May, 15 2008 | Comments : 0

Separating the Plant from it's Container

Plants that are grown in containers (especially those with tightly wound rootballs) should be loosened and the soil shaken off the roots prior to planting. I know this is hard to comprehend and probably contrary to everything that you have [...]

Posted On : Mar, 22 2008 | Comments : 0

How to Grow a Container Garden

Introduction Plants grown in hanging containers dry out much more quickly than plants grown in pots on the ground. The reason is that air circulates around the pot constantly. Self-watering pots are the only answer for hanging plants. [...]