Tips To Start and Maintain Container Garden

First step in creating container garden is to decide how much time you can invest in this project.

• Regular watering is needed along with upkeep process like pruning, pinching, training and re-potting. All these vary a lot from one plant to another.

• Choose containers, plants and locations in accordance to the time you are certain to give to the container garden.

• Many plants need sunny exposure, which increases watering schedule to keep plants hydrated.

• Perennials blossom for a short period like balloon flowers and lilies. Once their blossoms fade, they need to be moved to less conspicuous location.

• Any kind of garden plant can be grown in containers including vines, annuals, perennials, bulbs, groundcovers, trees and shrubs.

• You can find specific varieties that are especially suitable for container gardening listed on garden catalogues.

How to select indoor plant containers?

Vast array of plant containers ranging from wire baskets to classic lay flowerpots to items rescued from trash bins like leaky wagons or worn boots can be selected. The only thing every kind of plant container must include is drainage holes. These are necessary to eliminate excess water.

Treat container plants in the right way

Plant specialist Suffolk suggests that container garden have some special needs because they grow in small space and have less soil volume. Thus, the roots get limited amount of water and nutrients.

To allow the container plants to develop better, it is vital to employ high-quality potting soil, which allow the roots to grow vigorously. Appropriate fertilizer encourages healthy foliage along with abundant flowering. In addition, proper watering techniques will never leave the plants dry or drown them.

Benefits of container garden

• You can relocate plants to long distance easily but get them acclimatized in pot a few weeks, before relocation.

• Apartment and condominium has limited space on the terrace, where containers are the best option for gardening.

• With proper care shrubs and trees can survive in containers happily for years.

• Container gardens are small in size, so less demanding to care for.

• Just move the pot of calla lilies, caladiums, cannas, petunias and geraniums in a sheltered spot, during freezing temperatures.