Colour Themes For Your Container Plants
My gardening blog, The Ideal Garden, is looking at colour themes today in the first of the new section on projects in the container garden.
Using containers is a great way to plant out a garden and the big advantage is that you can move it around and rearrange it to your heart's content. However, that's not all you can do.
You can also arrange the plants within the container by colour and paint the container so they all fit in with the background and with each other. As I say in the blog, 'there's no me in container gardening; it's all a team effort of containers, plants, plant furniture and backgrounds'!
One problem with all this, and I do realise it's a problem, is that it takes time to get together a collection of pots and a collection of plants and, of course, pot plants are not getting any cheaper - at least not in the UK! But, it's surprising what you can do with what you already have and, once you know how to do it, it's a skill that will always be at the back of your mind.
I'm really glad I wrote this post and I hope you find the ideas useful so here is a link to the 'The Ideal Garden' blog.
Using containers is a great way to plant out a garden and the big advantage is that you can move it around and rearrange it to your heart's content. However, that's not all you can do.
You can also arrange the plants within the container by colour and paint the container so they all fit in with the background and with each other. As I say in the blog, 'there's no me in container gardening; it's all a team effort of containers, plants, plant furniture and backgrounds'!
One problem with all this, and I do realise it's a problem, is that it takes time to get together a collection of pots and a collection of plants and, of course, pot plants are not getting any cheaper - at least not in the UK! But, it's surprising what you can do with what you already have and, once you know how to do it, it's a skill that will always be at the back of your mind.
I'm really glad I wrote this post and I hope you find the ideas useful so here is a link to the 'The Ideal Garden' blog.
