Gardening: Container Gardening
Gardening: container gardening for city dwellers
Container Gardening Tips
Container gardening is one way to beautify your surroundings if you live in the city. You can create a natural sanctuary in a busy city street, along rooftops or on balconies. You can create a welcoming look of a deck or patio with colorful pots of annuals, or fill your window boxes with beautiful shrub roses or any number of small perennials. A few pots of fragrant herbs can also greatly enhance your surroundings. Whether you arrange your pots in a group for a massed effect or highlight a smaller space with a single specimen, you'll find it a very delightful way to brighten up all your living areas.
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1. Container gardening and color schemes.
Container gardening is a way in which you can very easily vary your color scheme, and as each plant finishes flowering, it can be replaced with another. This way your patio, deck or balcony can be filled with beautiful flowers all year round. Whether you choose to harmonize or contrast your colors, make sure there is variety in the height of each plant. You also have to vary the shape and texture of the leaves of your plants. Tall strap-like leaves will give a good vertical background to low-growing, wide-leaved plants. Choose plants with a long flowering season, or have others of a different type ready to replace them as they finish blooming. This way you keep your container “Garden” in full bloom.
2. Container Gardening and your containers.
It is really worth experimenting with creative containers when you are creating your container garden. You might have an old porcelain bowl or copper urn you can use, or perhaps you'd rather make something really modern with timber or tiles. If you decide to buy your containers ready-made, terracotta pots look wonderful, but tend to absorb water. You don't want your plants to dry out, so paint the interior of these pots with a special sealer available from hardware stores. Cheaper plastic pots can also be painted on the outside with water-based paints for good effect. When purchasing your pots, don't forget to buy matching saucers to catch the drips. This will save cement floors getting stained, or timber floors rotting.
3. Your potting mix.
Always use a good quality potting mix in your containers. This will ensure the best performance possible from your plants. Remember, your potting mix is the heart of your container garden and not worth skimping on. Ask advice from your nursery or store where you buy your gardening supplies. Most stores carry special soil for potting purposes. It is also important to remember that as in a garden, different plants need different kinds of soil.
4. Placing your pots.
- On steps leading up to your front door, an attractive pot plant on each one will delight your visitors.
- Indoors, pots of plants or flowers help to create a cozy and welcoming atmosphere.
Decide ahead of time where you want your pots to be positioned, and then buy plants that suit the situation. There is no point in buying sun loving plants for a shady position as they will only pine and finally die. Some plants also have really large roots and are therefore not suitable for container gardening.
5. The size of the space you have available.
If you have lots of space at your front door, a group display of potted plants to one side will be more visually pleasing than two similar plants placed on either side. Unless they are really spectacular, they will probably look rather bare, lonely and boring.
6. Grouping your containers in your container garden.
Group the pots in odd numbers rather than even, and vary the height and type. To tie the group together, add large rocks that are similar in appearance and just slightly different in size. Three or five pots of the same type and color, but in different sizes also look very attractive.
For a city dweller a container garden can be very rewarding. Use these techniques to bring color and life to a boring apartment and you’ll really enhance your living standard and you’ll soon be the envy of your family and friends. Not having a garden never need to be a problem for you if you love gardening. Container gardening can be just as much fun.
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