Showing posts with label container gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label container gardening. Show all posts

Saturday, May 30, 2020

Grow Trees in Containers




There are so many benefits to growing trees in containers. For one thing, they are so easy to move around and I love them for my carport jungle.

Click here for the article from Garden Therapy.



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Saturday, November 2, 2019

Bouganvillea Container Gardening



I never thought of growing bougainvillea in containers . . . great idea!

Click here to go to an article with great information on soil mixes and everything else you need to know.



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Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Container Gardening



I've been known to use all types of items for my container plants.  My favorite is a discarded coffee maker . . .




Click here for an excellent article on container gardening!









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Saturday, June 15, 2019

Pruning a potted fruit tree


Since most of our fruit trees were killed by winter freezes and Hurricane Irma, we are thinking of starting them again in large containers.  They would be much easier to maintain and keep alive.

It will be a new experiment for us and we need all the information we can get on the basics.  This article contains everything you need to know about pruning those fruit trees!





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Sunday, August 19, 2018

Herbs to Grow and How to Cook With Them



Herbs are the easiest and most versatile plants to grow in your garden, at least in my experience.

There have been times I had so much basil dried and put up for at least a year and also kept friends and family supplied.  Cooking a spaghetti sauce with basil is so much tastier than store bought basil.  For me, basil is the easiest of all to grow.

Of course the climate in which you live and if you grow them indoors or outdoors has much to do with the success of individual herbs, but you won't know unless you try them out.

Click here for an excellent article on growing and cooking with herbs.



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Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Creative Container Planters



Since Hurricane Irma dropped my beloved oak tree on our house, rendering it not habitable even today and destroyed our garden beyond belief . . . we have to start all over again with containers and the garden in general.

Click here for some great ideas for container plants . . . I can't wait to put some of these projects into action when we return to our home!


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Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Trellised Containers for Inspiration



I am so inspired by these photos of large container plantings with trellises for support and I thought I would share it here even though I don't have a photo source.

The photo was shared in a Facebook Gardening Group, A Not So Secret Garden that is packed with awesome ideas and inspiration.

What I love about these containers other than being so functional is the beauty of all the colors.  Check out the peppers!  They sure do look happy . . . so does the tomato plant.

I can't wait to put some of the containers together for our carport jungle . . . great way to start the spring season!



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Thursday, March 23, 2017

DIY Hypertufa Plant Containers



Spring's arrival brought ideas for all types of garden projects.  

Hypertufa containers is something I never experimented with, even though I loved my concrete DIY projects.  Since my emphasis is going to be container gardening this year, this is a project I am going to try.

Click here if you would also like to get inspired to make your own containers . . . The Empress of Dirt will guide the way for you!

Click here for another article from The World of Succulents on hypertufa containers.



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Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Awesome container gardening idea




Since container gardening is my preferred method of gardening, I'm always looking for new ideas.

Garden Lovers Club has an article on container planting that includes a video that includes a great method of assembling a large container planting.  

Click here to go to the article.




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Sunday, July 17, 2016

How to Make a Log Planter





How cute is this log planter?  I love it!!  We still have a huge log that fell on our outdoor shed that needs to be dealt with.  This is the perfect solution for what to do with it.

It would be awesome to use the log planters to form a raised bed.

Click here to find out how to make the log planter.






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Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Unusual Succulent Container Inspiration



What a cool and unusual succulent arrangement in a meat grinder for inspiration!

Look at yard sale and flea market items in a new way :)















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Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Tiered Herb Garden



This tiered herb garden represents the best of container gardening as far as I'm concerned!  

Pack this beauty with herbs and annuals for a practical and beautiful show.

Click here for the tutorial from Decor and The Dog.




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Sunday, June 26, 2016

Container Plants for the Shade




Love a shady garden!

When I moved into my house, several decades ago, it was a shady yard with large oak trees and citrus trees. Before that time, I thought growing in full sun was the only way to go, but I was so wrong!

Coleus plants are one of my favorites to bring bold color to the garden without flowers . . . and they are grown in such a wide variety of leaf shapes and colors. There are many other plants that are shade loving.

If you grow in the shade or would like to, click here for an excellent article on plants to grow and how to care for them.

Happy gardening!



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Thursday, June 23, 2016

Inspiration from Brenda's Patio




It has been years and years since I've followed Brenda's life adventures through her blog, Cozy Little House. She and her precious dogs went from a large house in Texas with a gorgeous yard with babbling brooks and waterfalls, to a small house in Oklahoma and finally has settled in her tiny apartment in Oklahoma.

The photo is from her latest blog post about entertaining outdoors. Click here to go to the post and get a look at the rest of her impressive patio garden.

Her patio garden is a run of the mill apartment concrete patio.  She has used her imagination and turned it into a very impressive, peaceful place.  She takes container gardening to a new dimension.  I want that gazebo!

Hope you draw some inspiration from Brenda!  If she can create a paradise from a concrete floor, those of us with a real yard can create a beautiful and peaceful place too :)  Check out the rest of her blog for great home dec ideas for indoors too.





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Monday, June 20, 2016

Container Plant Inspiration



Some beautiful container plant gardening inspiration!





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Saturday, June 18, 2016

Upcycled Container Gardens, Planters and Vases



Love these cute containers!  A trip to the thrift store, a yard sale or flea market searching for potential items for cute container gardening can be so much fun and add so much personality to your container garden.

Click here for a gallery of photos for inspiration.



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Thursday, June 9, 2016

Beginners Guide to Succulents



Succulents seem to be all the rage . . . I'm seeing them everywhere!  I've always loved hens and chicks, but I have not had luck growing them.

They are perfect plants for container gardening and so cute.

Click here for a beginners guide to growing these little beauties.  I'll be updating this post as I find more links.


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Thursday, February 25, 2016

Grow a Lemon Tree in a Container



If you use lots of lemons in preparation of meals and beverages, there is nothing like having your own supply. Once established, your lemon tree will provide you and your friends with more than enough!

Want to know the secrets of one gardener who grows lemon trees in containers?  Click here.





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Friday, December 11, 2015

Start lettuce from seed



Every year I say I'd like to grow my own lettuce from seed, but never get around to it.  I was reminded again by an article on the Birds and Blooms website.

Growing from seed really takes little effort.  You just need the right place to get them going

Click here for the article from Birds and Blooms . . . the photo source is from that article.



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Sunday, November 29, 2015

Creative Ways to Grow Herbs



I love growing herbs close to the kitchen.  In fact, they are beautiful grown indoors.

Container gardening is my preferred method of gardening since the plants are portable and can be moved from outdoors to indoors.

Click here to go to an article from The Empress of Dirt on being creative growing those herbs.  

Photo source is also The Empress of Dirt.









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