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Container Garden - How to Keep it Looking Fresh

Category: Container Gardening | Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:44 pm

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It seems that water retention is the main problem many gardeners find with their container plants. The plants tend to dry out in summer and become waterlogged in winter. During those hot summer days, water your pots and containers twice a day if necessary depending on the size of your plant and the size of the pot Your plants do transpire naturally, however, they lose moisture when there is less soil to hold it.


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All About Roses

Category: Container Gardening | Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 3:03 pm

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We just have to say something about Roses for St Valentine's Day. Of course red roses mean romantic love and they are in such demand for your love on the 14th. Just fill a beautiful container with roses and you will definitely convey love's true meaning. Yellow roses convey joy and friendship and are always welcome gifts as well.


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Successful Container Gardening

Category: Container Gardening | Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 1:34 pm

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The shape of the container can dictate a certain style in your garden, deck or patio. A successful design calls for a container to be in proportion to its setting - not a pot too small for its surroundings. It will get lost and seem out of place. As a general rule of thumb, the larger the planter the better.


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Choosing your Garden Containers - What Shape?

Category: Container Gardening | Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 3:56 pm

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The shape of your garden container does decide or suggest a certain style. Certainly the garden urn goes into the formal category, basket-weave planters are more country and angular, conical planters are definitely more contemporary. When in doubt about the best shape for your patio, deck or garden, just go for the classic design - square or rounded and slightly larger at the top. You want to show off the plants and foliage of course.



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Container Gardening - Basic Arrangement

Category: Container Gardening | Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 3:40 pm

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Sometimes we want something simple, the go anywhere basic kind of garden planter arrangement. This one looks good in almost any location and particularly well planted in a conical or upright container. Like the basic black dress, just plant four (4) Shasta Daisy plants into your 14" pot - I like a white container. It shows off beautifully and can be placed anywhere on the deck, porch, balcony or deck.


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Forsythia for your Garden Planters

Category: Container Gardening | Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 7:33 pm

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We are all getting anxious for Spring and what better way to welcome this new season than with garden planters and pots stuffed with beautiful yellow Forsythia branches. To force these wonderful woody plants into bloom, just shear your Forsythia stems into 3 ft lengths and place them in water for a few hours. Then, change the water, add floral preservative, recut the stems under water and you're ready for a wonderful arrangement.


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More Vegetable Varieties for your Containers

Category: Container Gardening | Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 8:41 pm

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I had a request for what kind of vegetables suit container gardening, more particularly what type of peppers can you plant in your pots and planters. Here is the list of what I think works best: Jalapeno, Yolo Wonder, Red (Hot) Cherry, Keystone Resistant Giant and Canape. This should give us a good start with our pepper crop this year.



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