Container garden

Growing plants in a variety of large and small boxes and pots will give you the right to a more mobile and mobile area due to the fact that your beds will not be chained to a certain place. A container garden can help with this.

It will also allow you to grow those plants that love heat and do not tolerate cold weather. At the time of frost, such containers can easily be brought into the house for wintering. The list of container garden plants is huge.

Flowers in containers will look very original and beautiful, they can complement any flower beds. And with your help they will be able to travel in the garden and decorate it at your discretion.

Garden in containers: decorating areas with a shadow.

In case of the arrival of guests, you can decorate the area where you are going to relax with beautiful, bright, saturated colors. Just transfer the flowers in containers to your chosen location and create a composition that suits you.

But do not forget to take them back, because in the absence of the lighting they need, they can die and cease to please you. Thus, you can decorate the most nondescript places.

Garden decoration with flowers in containers

• Containers in the garden in place of flower beds. They can be displayed in flower beds when other flowers have already bloomed and the place is empty.
  This method of decoration will save your garden from a dull look.
• Terraces, any open areas. In priority, such gardens are harvested in places where rest is planned. On open terraces and balconies. On small, decorative ladders, such containers will look especially advantageous and in which case they can be quickly moved.
• Garden in containers on the balcony  The only way to build your own green island in a bustling city is a container garden on the balcony. It is important to approach this business creatively so that the kindergarten will please your eye for many years to come.
• Fragrant blooming wall. This kind of garden can easily be hung on the inconspicuous walls of a barn, bathhouse and even a fence, or on partitions. Remember that the more flowers you plant, the more beautiful and original your garden will be.
• Gravel garden. A container garden will look very unusual and stylish on gravel. To do this, you will need to allocate a special place on your site, you can even create a unique pattern and place containers at your discretion.
• Garden containers and lighting. Decorative lamps, with a solar battery, with various figures are enough to stick into any container. And during the day it will serve as a decoration for you, and at night as a source of light.

Container garden: plant selection

It all depends on the size of your containers. It should be mentioned that not all plants can be kept in a confined space. Containers and containers with a diameter of thirty centimeters will allow you to plant any gardening flowers.

And in the case of a diameter of fifty centimeters, perennials can also be planted. Provided that suddenly you have small containers for planting, it is better to always plant unpretentious plants in terms of soil volume. These can be: blue cornflower, petunia, asters, pansies.

Garden container ideas

Anything can be used as a container for flowers in the garden. They can be assembled from small logs and plastic pieces. For this, old and new, watering cans, buckets and wheelbarrows of different sizes are suitable.

Wicker baskets and driftwood with empty space inside. You can also cast forms from concrete. And even old balls and rubber boots will serve you well.

Garden care in containers

This care is determined by the containers themselves. So and so in such vessels there is often little moisture, soil and microelements. Based on this, it follows that watering and fertilizing with various dressings will have to be much more than any plants growing in open ground.

Fertilizers can be used the same as in an open garden, but you can also buy special fertilizers with an improved composition. It will also be necessary to cut off inflorescences that have wilted, and this will have to be done more often than flowers from open ground.

Of course, all containers can be of any size, but try to choose them so that it is easy to move them if desired. Also remember that you can use any containers as long as your imagination is enough, and then the containers in the garden will be an excellent addition to your plot. ...