Potted Gardens
Jena Luthovski
Potted gardens may be more temporary than in-ground plantings,
but they usually reward creative design and a liberal
willingness to change. With potted gardens, you can experiment
freely with combinations and new plants, especially considering
that you can simply redesign these planters next season. It’s
not advisable to use garden soil if it’s infertile or drains
badly. You can overcome locations of shade and add pizzazz by
brightening dark corners with colorful flowers in pots.
You can even extend the growing season by bringing the potted
gardens indoors for the winter. You are even able to grow
plants that otherwise would not see the light of day in your
garden. Limited space can be used more efficiently or even
broken up in large areas of landscape with the use of pots.
Finally, it’s significant to keep invasive plants under control
because they tend to overrun a garden.
It is vital to keep plants neat and clean through regular
sprucing. This not only enhances the look of plants, but
reduces the avoidance of insects and disease dilemmas. Remove
all spent flowers, dead branches and dying leaves. Leaves
should be dust-free by washing the plants with temperate water
and gentle true soap - avoid detergent because it can create
damage to buds and leaves. Cover the pot to stop soap from
entering the soil. If tips of leaves become dry and brown, trim
them off tidily with sharp clippers.
Humidity can be increased by laying plants on trays which are
lined with a variety of pebbles and filled with warm water to
about one half inch of the pot base. Keep a pot of water on the
stove, if you heat with wood.
Training contains many minor care activities that differentiate
the beginner from the experienced indoor plant gardener. For
example, pinching is the removal of one inch or less of the
stem tip and leaf growth to incite new growth just below the
tip and promote lateral branching. Pinching can be a continuous
or one-time activity, depending on the desires of the plant
owner. Frequent pinching will sustain a plant compressed, but
suitably filled-out.
Potted gardens allow you to garden in what would otherwise be
impossible locations and add life to any type of setting with
colorful plantings. You can set the potted gardens in a window
box and attach the pot to a deck railing or window sill. A
planter that’s set down on each tread of the entry stairway is
another possibility. Suspended gardens in baskets from overhead
beams, pergolas and eaves can add an undeniable attraction to
your home. In other words, any bit of emptiness in space can be
a spot for a potted garden.
This type of gardening is quite enjoyable because it affords
the opportunity to rearrange or change pots and the plants in
them in a short space of time. You can combine different plants
with similar light and moisture requirements, pay careful
attention to the tenderness of the plants you choose and water
them regularly during the summer months, with that intense heat
and humidity.
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