Container gardens located at your rooftop or balcony are just what you need to bring a touch of nature to busy city streets. If you want to make your decks or window boxes look colorful all season long, then this is your time to shine - actually more of your deck's time to shine, what with all those pots of annuals and window boxes of shrub roses. Whether you arrange your pots in a group for a massed effect or highlight a smaller space with a single specimen, you'll be delighted with this simple way to create a garden.
The choice is all yours in container gardening, as you have carte blanche to change color scheme to your liking and replace plants as soon as they have flowered. Whether you choose to harmonize or contrast your colors, make sure there is variety in the height of each plant. Another thing you want to focus on would be how your leaves look and feel. Tall strap-like leaves will give a good vertical background to low-growing, wide-leafed plants.
Let your personality shine through with your choice of containers. Some ways you could experiment would be through the use of antique relics like a porcelain bowl or copper urn, or you could experiment with modern materials such as timber or tile for your containers. You can also buy prefab containers, such as beautiful pots made out of terra cotta, but these pots absorb a lot of water. The last thing you want is for your pots to lose out on valuable nutrients and water, so painting the interiors with sealant (available in most hardware stores) could prevent this from happening.
Water-based paints can also be used to paint the outside of plastic pots for an additional accent. When purchasing pots, don't forget to buy matching saucers to catch the drips. This will save cement floors getting stained, or timber floors rotting.
Always use a good quality potting mix in your containers. You want your plants to thrive, so there is no substitute for good quality.
Placing a beautiful pot plant on each of the steps leading to your front door (if applicable) would put a smile on any visitor's face. Make your house feel like a home with a few potted plants or flowers.
Decide ahead of time where you want your pots to be positioned, and then buy plants that suit the situation. There is no point buying sun lovers for a shady position, for they will not do well. As for plants with larger roots, they can thrive better in an open garden.
Instead of placing a similar plant a side, why not situate a group of plants en masse off to one side - this is definitely more aesthetically appealing than the former option. Unless you're referring to some really brilliant plants, you might as well catch a few z's while looking at them. We cannot stress this enough - keep the height and type plant varied, and group your plants in odd rather than even numbers. To tie the group together, add large rocks that are similar in appearance and just slightly different in size. A better way to group a set of three or five similar pots (in color and type) would be to vary the sizes.
The choice is all yours in container gardening, as you have carte blanche to change color scheme to your liking and replace plants as soon as they have flowered. Whether you choose to harmonize or contrast your colors, make sure there is variety in the height of each plant. Another thing you want to focus on would be how your leaves look and feel. Tall strap-like leaves will give a good vertical background to low-growing, wide-leafed plants.
Let your personality shine through with your choice of containers. Some ways you could experiment would be through the use of antique relics like a porcelain bowl or copper urn, or you could experiment with modern materials such as timber or tile for your containers. You can also buy prefab containers, such as beautiful pots made out of terra cotta, but these pots absorb a lot of water. The last thing you want is for your pots to lose out on valuable nutrients and water, so painting the interiors with sealant (available in most hardware stores) could prevent this from happening.
Water-based paints can also be used to paint the outside of plastic pots for an additional accent. When purchasing pots, don't forget to buy matching saucers to catch the drips. This will save cement floors getting stained, or timber floors rotting.
Always use a good quality potting mix in your containers. You want your plants to thrive, so there is no substitute for good quality.
Placing a beautiful pot plant on each of the steps leading to your front door (if applicable) would put a smile on any visitor's face. Make your house feel like a home with a few potted plants or flowers.
Decide ahead of time where you want your pots to be positioned, and then buy plants that suit the situation. There is no point buying sun lovers for a shady position, for they will not do well. As for plants with larger roots, they can thrive better in an open garden.
Instead of placing a similar plant a side, why not situate a group of plants en masse off to one side - this is definitely more aesthetically appealing than the former option. Unless you're referring to some really brilliant plants, you might as well catch a few z's while looking at them. We cannot stress this enough - keep the height and type plant varied, and group your plants in odd rather than even numbers. To tie the group together, add large rocks that are similar in appearance and just slightly different in size. A better way to group a set of three or five similar pots (in color and type) would be to vary the sizes.
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