Container gardening is a fun and easy way to grow plants in pots at home. It can be practical, decorative, or full of purpose, and can be used to grow vegetables, herbs, colorful flowers, or feed and attract birds. Container gardening with flowers is a great way to instantly introduce color, fragrance, and beauty into our lives. It makes flowers part of any landscape, even on a deck, patio, porch, or balcony.
To set up a container garden, choose the right container, select color schemes and plant combinations, limit the number of plants you use, and ensure drainage holes in the base. The right care and feeding are the secrets to keeping your pots lush and healthy all season long. Provide a steady supply of water and nutrients, snip the plants, and follow the thriller, filler, and scatter theory.
For happy container gardens, don’t overcrowd containers, plant in odd numbers, and follow the thriller, filler, and scatter theory. Choose the right location for your container, where the plants growing in it will thrive. Plants that require a lot of sun should receive more sunlight.
In summary, container gardening is an easy and fun way to grow plants in pots at home. To create the best flower container gardens, choose the best flowers, plant them in odd numbers, follow the thriller, filler, and scatter theory, and choose the right container size. By following these steps, you can create a successful and visually appealing container garden.
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I bought a book a few years ago about ‘thrillers, fillers and spillers’, showing all of the combinations you can do and it’s fun to just use your imagination with the different plants and colors. Ornamental grasses are beautiful as thrillers too! I subscribed because you English people have such lovely gardens!
Omg so darn beautiful girl ! You know how to do this ! Thank you for the amazing article I am a producer and these people don’t know just how hard it is to do a instructional how to article excellent job !!!! and going through point by point and play by plant and you included very tight and succinct information . Bravo and the American accent … genius .
‘Thrillers. Fillers. Spillers’ ……fanastic advice, great demo and yes, I will be tarting up my cordyline pots tomorrow!! i shall defo be perusal more of Katherine, as she’s so easy to watch. Thanks, from a novice gardener, who’s desperate to get some plants into her new, but totally bare (I’m not kidding, a lawn, fencing/wall and lovely paved area, and that’s IT!!) new garden x
Great article, I dont know if container gardens are a new concept but I like Katherine she doesnt beat around the bush. Good tips too. Its pretty simple like she says, just dont overwater and when the plants outgrow you might want to think about replanting but gardens like these last longer than you think : )
A very nice informative article. One thing though, I would recommend using safety goggles or even ordinary spectacles while you plant it up as the cordyline leaf tips are very sharp and can pierce your corneas (eye surface) which is obviously painful and may result in a more serious eye injury. Better to be safe than sorry…All the best and thanks.
I had a question on soil. She referred to it a few times as compost. Is it just a British word for potting mix or is it actually soil? I didn’t see any perlite in her scoops as the soil was rich and dark. In the US we generally use commercial potting mix for outdoor pots, like ProMix (making sure to add water retention crystals in full sun pots) or Miracle Grow potting mix (containing water retention crystals) but I’d like to try other mixs that others have been successful with.
Nice plant color combination…including pot color Which is in same tones…my I thought…. is it’s packed now. What will it look like in a couple of months? these plants all will grow twice the size of what they are now ….so my thinking….. I would use only half of the flowers in this pot, instead of both full batches, ….as to give growing room for all ….plants…respectively
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I grow pot plants in a container garden with lovely red and purple flowers but mine look a tad different. I don’t have a “finger joint” though (11:58) just cigar sized joints. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that my flowers smell better than the ones in this article but at least she is growing “grass” in that container garden of pot plants.
need to think about a mosquito skirt for all the planter water trays. I move my big plants indoor for the winter and then roll them out to the deck in the spring and they stay out till the next fall. Apparently the mosquito that carries the Zika virus likes to breed indoors and is an aggressive day biter!! found the Stillaset mosquito planter skirt. have on the plants on the deck now. holding up after the last big hail and rain storm
I’m confused…she is only using compost to fill the pot? I’m reading this article that says……So while it may be tempting, planting in pure compost is not a good idea. That’s not to say you shouldn’t plant in compost at all. Just an inch or two of good compost mixed with your existing topsoil is all your plants need. So who is right?
That looks more like a flower arrangement. Plants too tightly squeezed together and too much root bound left. Why use compost and not potting soil? I would have added a touch of bone meal to the compost, but as said, I prefer potting soil – compost do not always have the micro elements needed for plants.