What’s the difference between container gardening and container landscaping? 🌿 In this episode, Linda explores this inspiring design style first coined in Ireland and made popular by Klaus Dalby. Learn how to take your pots and planters to the next level and create a mini garden landscape that’s dramatic, intentional, and full of seasonal impact. ✨
We’ll cover:
✔️ What container landscaping is and how it differs from container gardening
✔️ Pros & cons: cost, practicality, climate, and labor
✔️ Tips for color palettes, textures, and plant combinations
✔️ Budget-friendly ways to source pots & plants (estate sales, thrifting, DIY aging techniques)
✔️ Seasonal strategies for spring, fall & winter
✔️ Using evergreens, edibles, and topiaries for structure
✔️ Potting area updates + my ongoing gravel and storage makeover
Whether you’re working with 5 pots or 50, this video will help you decide if container landscaping is right for your garden—and how to adapt it to your climate, style, and budget.
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I was thinking about how the pots looked when they were first planted, or before the bulbs come up. I actually love “grooming” (deadheading) plants.
This was an exceptionally great video from the breathtaking container gardening to your beautiful, moody backyard lights. One thing we have to remember is some of the things mentioned (i.e. Eugenia topiary) are not hardy in many zones, and the majority of us dont have a place to ship all of our potted plants and/or topiary
Hi Linda, I so enjoy Ur gardening & life sharing & tip giving❤ On the forgotten walkway, between the brick wall & fence what about the gravel with some of Ur broken stepping stones. Also at the end of the walkway by pipe just painted meeting the soil area, add some brick and broken stepping stone, for safety and tying areas together. Everything looks great as it is, but sometime more is even better. Thanks to U & Stewart we look forward to Ur great partnership❤
I would guess all the photos were taken after each pot was freshly planted…which is a way different look that plants in there 2-4 months. So beautiful photos, not truly real life.
THE GOOD CONTAINERS ARE SO EXPENSIVE-THE ONE DOWNFALL.
I have been following you Linda since around 2019 and I was just starting a new garden around that time. You fueled my love for boxwood and it was a perfect solution for an area on my property that has mixed light exposure. I have some, now larger, boxwoods in pots and some in the ground which gives me structure and then I have started to create mixed pots with perennials like hosta, ferns and Heucherellas. After years of building my garden it is saving me money that I once was spending on annuals each year to fill the spots. Each year adding more pots.
Very informative Linda! I loved the inserts of all the different colored container landscapes. I have learned over the past couple of years that I only want to have 3-5 pots and change them seasonally. I had many at one time but no longer. Too much work and constant watering . I can hardly wait until your next Live chat!
My first thoughts on the area between brick wall and fence, how about narrow raised wooden benches same height as the wall. it would be like a wooden platform. Soil not in sight, and it doubles as a table top for pots and storage. Love all you do.
And CLAUS has major helper!!!
the forgotten space is coming together nicely. It's really functional for your daily gardening needs. I was thinking you could stack some building blocks between the fence at intervals to create some height on which to place a rectangular planter for some seasonal interest with shade lovely plants, this wouldn't impede on the walkway and could be changed out and maintained easily because they would be at wall height.
You could paint a classic tile pattern onto your concrete pathway. It can look better as it ages. Love your garden 🌿
I love container gardening BUT – HOW CAN I KEEP THEM SAFE IN ZONE 6 ❓❓ I can’t store them and they are expensive‼️‼️
Linda you are sooooooo fabulous !!! Thank you for always being an inspiration 🌸💕
I love Claus Dalby if I had the money and help I would do it but at 73 it’s too much work.
Another fabulous video. You are THE BEST! ❤
🌿💗 I vote “NO” on gravel between the fence and brick wall. Since it is not a prominent area and does not have to be “shown”…. however, seen by you…🤣…even though your neighbor has gravel on the other side, you may find yourself wrangling your gravel back to your side after a heavy rain. Also, another alternative may be pavers and bricks here and there to add interest and suppress weeds. I predict that you may add planters in that space as you seem to desire to green up the fence. 🤣💗🌿
I have done small areas in pots and I found only the front pots or the plants and maybe a few interior pots need to be in the same family. I use black nursery pots for interior plants and they disappear. I also use plastic pots that are terracotta looking in the interior. I also will grow in black nursery pots that fit into my terracotta pots.
I have been watching you for at least 6 years now. I have never commented on any of your Vlogs before, but I think this is an exceptional episode. So much practical information on container landscaping. Well done Linda! Bravo! — only critique — Eugineas do not survive current Oklahoma nor Texas winters. They must be moved indoors or in a green house.
Yes to the gravel idea between wall and fence.
Love container gardening! As I am getting older I have learned not to work harder, just smarter!
I’ve collected a good lot of very large pots which I used to move in or cover during the winter months due to freezing temps so over time I’ve learned to take the dirt out of the and put the nursery pots into them sometimes using wood,brick or styrofoam risers inside them to bring up to pots level. I have access to lots of moss so I tuck that around the edges to sometimes cover up the edges of the inter pot where it gaps to the outer pot. Easy to change out seasonal blooming plants when they start to wane.
Its nice to have those options.
Linda can you provide the link to the lights you put in the ground again in the back yard…I think you got the idea from Taylor?
Here in hot humid Houston, container planting require a lot of upkeep. I picked up an idea from Bunny Guinness and her “bottomless pots” design. I do not use clay pots for various reasons. All of the pots I use are quite large. I am very happy with the results. I have even painted the outside of some planters which adds color to the garden.
Hi Linda, Just wanted to let you know that I just ordered 6 bags of happy grow landscaper mix from Lowes today 8/25/25. They have it back in stock!!!
Linda and Stewart, just today on your comments there is a ‘hype’ thingy. What is this and I cannot get rid of it so I can comment. Pls tell me how I can remove this off my comments ? Hugs from Australia.
Linda how does this gentleman water the pots? Surely not every pot has its own water tube? Hugs from Australia ☺️🙏🏼🍷
Such a great topic! I’m branching out this year to do landscaping in the ground and am gaining inspiration from just one 20 gallon planter I have spent time honing textures and colors to coordinate with existing landscaping before I commit to buying plants. I am paying attention to what WILL survive and thrive in my zone 10a west coast climate. I am noticing what colors have been missing in the landscape (like reds and whites and yellows), so have been working with a contractor to slowly procure perennials and “temperanials”. It’s been a year of lessons from patiently reading the landscape and weather patterns.