Container gardening can be magical… or a complete, crispy disaster. 🌿🍸
In this episode of The Garden Mixer, Marianne Wilburn and Leslie Harris go way beyond “thriller, filler, spiller” to talk about the real secrets of successful containers:
• why placement matters as much as plants
• how professional gardeners pack containers FULL
• watering hacks and drainage mistakes
• tropicals, foliage, spillers, and “droolers”
• why some containers become root prisons
• how to create gorgeous combinations without spending a fortune
Plus:
🌱 roof iris
🌱 Buff Beauty rose
🌱 deer fence PTSD
🌱 and an alarming amount of discussion about tutus
Whether you’re planting one porch pot or creating full garden vignettes, this episode is packed with practical ideas and just enough chaos.
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Question of the day:
Have you ever planted something in a container that completely took over and terrorized everything around it?
Looking at you, sweet potato vine. 👀
Tell us your container gardening triumphs, disasters, and accidental botanical crimes below.
13:32 This is a personality quiz for gardener
Howard is a container god.
45:51 I’m rethinking a lot of my life choices now.
My big trick for the container, is when I want to lighten up the big pot in order to save soil, I actually use packing peanuts tied in plastic bags…place them into the pot upside down (so the tie is on the bottom). I suppose the black pots you mentioned could also be put into the plastic bags, thereby reducing the amount of air and soil settlement in the pot…love your podcast btw…learning so, so much…even though I’ve been a master gardener for 15yrs, and gardening for 20….❤❤❤
I once planted a purple fountain grass in a thick cement planter, and at the end of the season, the pot was cracked and my big burly husband couldn’t even get the root ball out.