Container Planting



 When you love planting beautiful plants or your own vegetables, but are very limited in space to actually create a garden. Container planting is the way to go. Container plants are less time consuming, take up less space and great for those who are renting. The other gratifications are there is no digging, fertilizing or weeding. This is especially true for annual plants.


Container plants are great when used to enhance outdoor spaces such as patios, balconies, porches, walkways and also as dividers. For quality flower bulbs and perennial plants at rock bottom prices, go to BloomingBulb.com


Choosing containers for your plants can be a lot of fun, since there are a wide variety of styles, sizes, colors and prices. Some of those styles include materials such as wood, ceramic, plastic, terra cotta, brightly colored fiberglass and self watering or eco friendly containers which are constructed from natural materials. When using a container that was previously used, be sure to clean the container before planting. Use a combination of bleach and detergent to thoroughly clean your container and rinse well afterwards.


When planting your container plants, always use higher quality soil that will retain moisture, nutrients and oxygen to produce healthy flowers and lusciously green leaves. Higher quality soils usually contain ingredients such as peat moss, sphagnum, perlite, aged compost forest products, vermiculite or sand.


Here are a few suggestions for your container planting:

Plant a mixture of colorful flowers in your container. Some of the preferred plants for early spring planting are geraniums in a variety of beautiful shades, petunias, pansies, impatients, snapdragons, and alyssums which closely resembles the cabbage plant and the beautiful wonderland citrons in vibrant shades of yellow and orange.


When planting for shady areas use brightly colored anchor plants such as a variegated variety of the tall, stalk like ti plant in reddish shades or yellow Florida sunset and deep orange- red Maui. Impatients are plants that will last well into the fall and even winter months in areas with warmer climates. Other colorful plants that will last through out the year in warmer climates are kalanchoe calandivas, these plants produces multiple, rose shaped flowers in shades of white, orange, pink, red and purple. For a beautiful selection of flowers try Henry Fields Seed and Nursery .


When arranging your plants, use your own imagination. You can create gorgeous arrangements by using a mixture of flowers such as perennials with annuals, all perennials or all annuals.


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