If you love growing plants but don’t have any ground to plant into, that doesn’t mean you cannot create a garden. Most people that have container plants end up just getting whatever they can find at the box store, leaving them in ugly containers, and the result is something that is lacking! In this video we go through some easy to follow ideas on things you can think about before the summer begins so that you can create an actual garden with your potted plants, rather than a hodge podge of this and that. I use many excellent photos that I have taken over the years that really demonstrate the points that I am making. We focus a lot on repetition and ways to use repetition to create a truly wonderful scene. We briefly go through growing perennials and houseplants on your decks and patios and how we can use them in our garden as well. #containergardening #plants #gardener
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Great tips bro. Looking forward to getting my tropicals out on my deck. We have had an extra cold temperatures this year. Morning temps right now low 40's hi temps 52. So I'm waiting a little longer to bring them out. I live in Edmonds WA. Thank you for your educational videos to help people with your insight & knowledge. Peace ✌️
So right about the many small containers looking cluttered…guilty as charged lol. If you are around an Ollie's store, they carry huge containers in the spring for way less $$.
Always impressed with the creative ideas you come up with, but wondering about all the watering & fertilizing to keep it going in the summer months, especially if we travel for a week or two. Btw, really impressed at your yoga handstand on the deck, but if I tried that some body parts might start falling off, and it won't be pretty.
I planted two “Bloom Struck” beautiful hydrangeas, in large pots in front of my garden entrance last year. They were growing with tons of new greenery and then we had a frost. Now it looks like all that greenery is dead. I believe Bloom struck grows on old and new wood? Do you think it will bloom for me this year because it was out in the frost? So sad. This was a frost that occurred about 2 1/2 weeks ago, after the greenery had started growing for this year…now looks “burnt” and not growing anything new so far?
This was an exciting video! Thank you!
Yardsales are great places for inexpensive plants and containers too!!
Luckily, where I live, I can grow just about any plant that will grow anywhere on earth. But my favorites are tropicals. I wanted that in my bedroom as well, so I have a large Kentia palm, a huge peace lily, a fast growing Monstera deliciosa, Dieffenbachia, and a beautiful orange anthurium.
Hey Devin, one of the issues I have been wrestling with regarding container plants is what to do with old potting soil/mix. It seems wasteful simply to dispose of it. So the question is, can it be reused in some way, perhaps out in the yard or perhaps at the bottom of new container plants as filler?
Great ideas !
I enjoyed watching, and learning from this video. I agree with not having too many small flower pots/containers around, because it does get to look cluttered. I too am in the same zone as you, (I'm in Lansdale, PA) and I'm presently on the hunt for perennial flowering plants, or shrubs that will overwinter well in large pots in my garden. I am considering Astilbe, but I am wondering if you have any recommendations.
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I’m just afraid to bring pests back in when I have to bring them back in. My back patio is east facing with a tall fence around the patio. I live in a condo so that’s really my only place to put it. Then there’s a maple tree growing behind the fence. And since I live in a condo association I’m unable to change any of this so I grow moss all fall. It’s dying right now. The north fence makes a shade area and I planted an astilbe and some hostas. They come back every year but because the tree is really g owing I am getting more shade garden plants in the flower beds on either side of my fences. I hade flower beds behind my bedroom wall and along the whole front. One part gets some from about 12:00 and the other part doesn’t get sun until about 2:00. Then they both are blasted by the sun. I’ve hit some perennial plants but I need more flowering plants. Any ideas. I’m
In Oregon I about zone 8b.
Thank you Devin.
Greetings from Ireland, We have a small front garden with sixty pots and four flowerbeds, My wife has no interest in gardening and thinks it looks like a mini garden centre. The back garden has no flowerbeds or pots its double the size of the front garden, It's just grass and at the bottom there is a glasshouse, compost bins, garden shed and water barrels. I would love to put in some no dig flower beds but my wife has said no. We have two westie terriers Billy and Rory and the back garden is for them to play in. You know the old saying happy wife happy life.
Alocasias can struggle as houseplants. I keep their containers outside to thrive in the hot, humid summers of the US midwest. I bring them inside to overwinter in dry dormancy in a cool, passively-heated room.
Love your videos, Devin. Always informative for a fairly new gardener. 🌼
ever try out the self watering containers? if so, any success, and with what plants? https://youtu.be/k429cPlH6mM?si=MOg5pulUGIP5O0Hf
Your videos are so helpful.👍🏻
I always learn from your work thanks…on another note though i have no artistic eyes 😕
Great video.
Have switched to one plant variety per pot and put several pots together. So much flexibility and can adjust location / water for each plant's needs.
Anybody know they the name of the alocasia at the beginning of the video ?