Garden Experiments
For the love of gardening and wildlife habitat
The colors for Easter are purple and white, and you can incorporate colorful flowering plants in a planter to help celebrate the season. To add some charm, add a few Easter-themed decorations, such as rabbits or Easter eggs. Plants for an Easter-Themed Planter This Easter-themed purple and white container garden include these plants: …
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With the hot sun and high humidity of our southern summers, sprinkling many container gardens around my yard usually means I'll have to water them a lot each week. Watering my container gardens is a tedious chore. The hose gets tangled on everything, my shoes usually end up getting wet, and it gives the mosquitoes plenty of time to suck my veins …
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When I decided that the raised bed in my front yard needed a little height to add structure and color, my first thought was some sort of permanent structure, whether it be garden art or something a plant could grow on. Metal, Freestanding Trellis I looked for a way to include a flowering vine on a sturdy trellis. I found the perfect metal, …
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I decided to go for something a little more unique for a couple of my container gardens this spring. It took me a while to find the right container, but I finally found these lovely, lightweight, ashen-colored large containers to use. I decided I wanted bright, colorful plants to greet me at the sides of my carport—I went tropical! The neutral …
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I'm not cheap, I'm frugal. When it comes to my garden, that means I often repurpose plants from one planting or flower bed into another one. There's nothing wrong with that, right? In this case, I repurposed a croton from a container garden that had long outgrown its original pot and mixed it in with some heliconias that I purchased on sale with …
This year I planted Mandevilla in the spring/summer container gardens I planted for my mom. I just replaced those summer plants with fall mums, pansies, decorative cabbage, and snapdragons for the fall. Since the Mandevilla vine isn’t dead yet, I left it and the small trellises in the pots. After all, the fall weather sometimes surprises us with …
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