Container Garden Design Plans

Container garden design is raising plants vegetables edible herbs or flowers above the ground or balcony floor in compact containers and pots.

Container garden design plans. With our ideas you ll be inspired to dirty your hands and spruce up your porch or patio with some pretty container gardens in no time. Repurposed garden fountain container idea. Use a pair of clipped boxwood or bay to flank a doorway or entrance. From fall container gardening to hanging container gardening and even indoor container gardening we ve got tons of container garden ideas for you.

Delineate a seating area with a living wall of laurel in troughs. Instead group large and small containers together this will create a visual appeal. Free one time registration allows unlimited access to planting guides for all garden plans. This planting grows best in full sun.

Thriller filler spiller. Here an old rusty wheelbarrow makes a charming container garden. If you don t want your vegetable garden to look boring play with the height. Plant a low growing plant on its base to create a more alluring effect or leave it alone for dramatic appeal.

Perilla magilla 3. Make a container water garden with a large ceramic bowl. Use a variety of water plants from greens to water lilies. Don t use planters of similar size and height.

Use a portable filtration system to keep your plants in ideal shape. Container garden planting design secrets. Cardoon cynara cardunculus 1. Group plants according to their height to create a garden like surrounding effect.

When designing a container garden plant a beautiful shrub or tree in a large unusual or artistic container and place it in a prominent spot in the container garden as a focal point. The thriller is usually a big focal point plant in the center. 18 by 10 feet. Container garden designs are wonderful alternatives to traditional gardening encouraging to add art interesting shapes and bright colors to backyard landscaping or create inexpensive and very beautiful garden decorations for stunning balcony designs.

Think of large container plants as design features that can reinforce the permanent structure of your garden. Place pots of lavender on wide steps where you can catch the scent as you walk past. Planting in a great pot can make all the difference in a container for gardening. Diascia diamonte lavender pink 3.

Our free planting guide for this garden includes a larger version of the illustration a detailed layout diagram a list of plants for the garden as shown and complete instructions for installing the garden. Add pebbles to the bottom of the bowl. Be careful to keep your garden from growing stagnant or the plants will die.