Do you love container gardening? Looking for a way to beautify your gardens with your favorites and keep the critters out? Do you have limited garden space? If you answered yes to these questions, consider the wonderful ways you can dress up your gardens, porch, deck, patio and more with a plethora of different plants and flowers in containers. I have always loved them because I love vases filled indoors and urns outdoors so they were a sure bet for me in my Promise Gardens. I have everything in them from roses, flowering shrubs, perennials, annuals, tropicals and more. In the summer, I fill large containers with tomato, squash, lettuce, cucumbers, peppers and herbs. All of these plants and vegetables grow beautifully and they are easy to water, feed and protect from disease and insects. They are just the best and their use and creativity is limitless.
This container and its twin sit in “pie-shaped” twin gardens on each side of my porch stairs. They contain floribunda roses, perennials, annuals, grasses, trailing vines and many other plants. Each year I choose different plants and create a new look for the season and transfer the previous years plants to the main Promise Gardens to spread and supply me with future container plants. It is pure joy to create and photograph them and during our flower and garden show to share them with friends and family.
One of the first questions I am asked about the containers when folks come to visit the gardens or see photographs of them is “how do I create them?” and where can they learn to do it. I share my favorite books and sites with them (see links on tab above). My favorite container gardening book is P. Allen Smith’s “Container Gardening” and was the inspiration for my twin containers above. You can visit his website to see photos, videos and recipes for container gardening. The book is a “must-have” for your gardening bookshelf and will inspire you to create beautiful containers for your home and gardens.
We will be sharing many of our container photographs and recipes over the seasons. Be sure and come back and visit us. Happy Container Gardening!
In the Promise Gardens, rose promises come true. Our English roses are successful here because 1) they are loved and cared for 2) the have a healthy garden environment and 3) they are David Austin Roses.
