This is truly the easiest way to plant up your planters. I hate calling things “life hacks”… but I feel like it falls into that category 🌱👌
My focus when adding garden elements is to decrease the amount of work and maintenance required. I want all the beauty… but with minimal effort. I am leaning on evergreen perennial color with this planter — that way it’ll look good all year long. If I want to add a little pizzazz, I can just pop in some annual color (snapdragons, salvia, etc)— but even if I don’t — the planter still looks lush and gaaahgeous. 👌
Part-Shade Planter details:
🌱@campania.international @wmbgbrand Williamsburg Low Fretwork Urn
🌱@provenwinners wild rose heucheras from @greatgardenplants
🌱Bowles golden sedge from @greatgardenplants — but I actually recently switched it out for evercolor everillo carex for a more graceful look and planted this sedge in the landscape 🙃
@monroviaplants sweet bay from @pikenurseries — which will be flavoring all my soups in the future, annnd might be formed into a topiary… if I become brave.
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this is my favorite hack for planting containers go ahead and plant your plant with the container into your planter really pack the soil around each container and then when you remove it now you have the perfect hole to plant your plantin happy gardening
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Don’t do that because the soil is so hard in both areas, the roots will have a hard time growing, plus u want to shake up the roots/soil to be lesss compact in the flower roots, like you want them to combine
Not breaking up the roots? Compacting the soil dierectly underneath the roots? Unless you’re very careful about watering, that’s a recipe for slow growth and root rot
One should always break up the roots. Also, soil shouldn’t be compacted like that. The little air patches in it get squashed out. I was taught that by a botanical garden when I volunteered.
If I hack you mean like someone who's not good at doing something, you're correct. Don't do this it's not good for the roots. The container is only there to ship the plant in most cases.
Even if the way you planted it wasn't great, the idea to use the original container or something of the same size as needed as a mold is genius. I always have the issueofmy soil spilling into my hole so I will remember and try this when I plant my gladiolus bulbs this weekend.
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This is a great hack! Sorry the algorithm seems to have fed this video into armchair gardener central (all the comments are wrong and dumb lol)
Yeah don’t do that,.. 😉
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