This element of the landscape allows you to embody a lot of thoughts in the garden. Can say, that container gardens are mobile flower beds or mini-compositions.
Plants in containers complement huge flower beds, tying luxurious garden furniture into a single installation. But most importantly – they can with your help «travel» in the garden, changing its appearance every time, becoming an element of a quick change of scenery. With them you can make the impression of a dynamic, ever-changing garden. If you wish, eg, at the arrival of guests to decorate the shadow recreation area, then put on it a group of containers with colorful colors.
The most demanding flowers can be grown in containers, as it’s easier to create specific conditions in them. And in case of adverse weather conditions, mini-compositions are easy to bring into the house. You can put them on the flower beds, it will be very handy in those situations, when any flowers have already faded and urgent need to decorate empty spaces, especially this technique is good after, how spring onions bloom – because in the second half of summer they don’t even have leaves.
A photo: From the personal archive / Olga Voronova
By the way
Clay tiles and flowers - a beautiful combination! Around the container garden, you can perfectly scatter colored ceramic tiles.. Thus, you select it in space and give it a fascinating "geometry".
Care Features
Not enough soil in containers, insufficient nutrients, water shortage. Therefore, plants need to be watered and fed much more often., than in the open ground. You can use the same fertilizer, as for the main flower beds in the garden, and you can buy special, more concentrated, – they are usually sold in bottles. It would be perfect to use a hydrogel – it will help to keep water in a small volume. Be sure to occasionally cut off faded inflorescences, it needs to be done much more often, than flowers in the ground.
Placed flowers in pots allow you to change the composition all the time. A photo: Olga Voronova
Choose beautiful
Containers and flowers – here are the basic materials for building a container garden. Need to say, that not all flowers adore being in small containers. Want to plant a perennial, and the container is smaller than the required size? Not a failure. For the winter you will need to bury it in the ground to the surface level, so that flowers successfully wintered.
In small containers it makes sense to plant flowers, unpretentious to the volume of land. These are petunia, lobelia, viola, ageratum, marigold, low grades of zinnia, asters, daisies, verbena, sage, calendula, begonia, variety dahlias Joyful guys, all spring bulbs and skewers. But nasturtium in this regard is very moody. Decorative sunflower like huge containers, in a small one, it can grow only in a very reduced version. Curly flowers also do not tolerate a small amount of soil, Of these, only sweet peas, and even to a certain extent.
Buy a palette for now, to easily and quickly rearrange flowers. A photo: Olga Voronova
We design aster
Arrange containers within the garden. It'll be fine anyway. But you can make some design elements:
- make a garden module for a garden of sufficient size and cover it with decorative gravel or pebbles;
- if the container garden will be paved, you can somehow allocate its placement already when laying: other paving material either make «frame» from narrow elements of a different color. And if there is already paving, just outline this place with beautiful ceramic tiles;
- make a little (5–10 cm) podium;
- build a wooden garden shelf with steps;
- surround the finished decorative fence;
- arrange containers in a geometric shape;
- put beautiful stones between the pots (not very big), arrange garden figures;
- in some containers place small solar-powered lights;
- sprinkle free soil in pots with decorative pebbles or shells;
- wrap large containers with embossed synthetic fabric, burlap or coconut copra;
- the most elegant garden option – if all plants will be in approximately the same containers in shape, color and material. Then a single memory will be created and the flowers themselves will be accented;
- you can arrange a container garden on the steps of an old staircase. For this, the staircase itself, and paint containers in harmonic colors;
- You can surprisingly arrange part of the container garden, placing some containers in beautiful birdcages.
The highest bird cages can be used as a decorative element, putting in their potted plants Photo: From the personal archive / Olga Voronova
And one more, last tip. If all the tanks in your kindergarten are different, need to come up with some «history» their associations. For example, make such a garden a monosad – plant flowers of the same species, for example only petunia. Another variant – add kindergarten containers with such plants, whose flowers are discreet, but decorative foliage. Suitable hosts, kohiya, garden salads. And you can plant flowers with the same color in each container, that he himself.
In reddish – red tulips, in blue – ageratum. Generally, experiment.
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