Your Garden With Containers

 Six Ways to Improve Your Garden With Containers

If there was a gardening equivalent to the culinary proverb “salt makes everything better” it would be “pots make everything pop”. Many of us spend precious time and energy planting containers every growing season, and we trust these designs to decorate our sites and welcome visitors to our entrances. But if our pots in those traditional places have a magical effect, why not deliver the same magic on our beds and borders? Andy and Raw McIntyre decided to pursue that question in their lush English garden, using pots to enhance the overall design of their space. From smoothing the edges to creating focal points, the Mac into Garden proves that there are countless ways to make containers work harder in our landscapes.

1. Upgrade the installed bed

Have you ever stared at a part of your garden and thought "something is missing"? A visual aperture or green sea that does not appear to be full will require a color boost. In mature garden beds, it is impossible to find a place to insert a new plant to "fix" the problem. If you do not want to tear up existing plants or interfere with the root systems of your major artists, consider placing a pot on the bed with the plant of choice. Containers can be easily tied between large plants without much effort. This is a good trick to attach to soft plants such as New Zealand phlox (Formium detox CV, Zones 9–11). It improves the garden bed several months before it can be carried in an unheated garage and spent the winter.

2. Turn something useful into a decoration

Every place should be seen as an opportunity to find a pot. The wide staircase leading up from the seating area in this garden has enough space to place several pots. This collection varies from year to year with seasonal suitable plants. In late spring, the English daisies (Bellis perennis CV., Zones 4–8) combine wonderfully with the scattering leaves of a chartreuse heuchera (Heuchera cv., Zones 4–8)) and colorful geranium.

3. Define the edges

Using plants to smooth the edges of a path is not a new or new idea. Garden designers have been doing it for hundreds of years. But the plants on a sidewalk can easily become unruly, or too boring, obscuring the path and causing chaos. If you still want to smooth the edges and have some definition, the sequence of containers will do the trick. For a crisp look, line up those pots. If you are looking for something a little more natural in appearance, make them stumble. In any orientation, it is best to fill the pots with plants that grow very upright. A character filled with spillers will quickly change the confusing look you are trying to avoid.

4. Create a focal point that will have the most impact

There is no quicker way to get an immediate impact on a garden than to add an interesting shape, a unique texture, or a brightly colored plant. These plants will become the focal points needed for every good garden. But a container can also be an impressive focal point, and it will not be permanent. Here, a neutral terra-cotta pot is filled with a fiery orange Nemesia (Nemesia cv., Annual), electric blue lobelia (Lobelia erinus, annual), and a peach-colored heuchera. Unlike the color scheme found elsewhere in the garden, it immediately catches the eye. If the complementary color scheme seems too overwhelming, the theme can be softened at will or changed over the next year or so.

5. Green the area where planting is not possible

Everyone has an ugly spot in their garden where nothing grows. May be due to a lack of deep, fertile soil. Or maybe it's a bad spot against a foundation or where a driveway drain is located. Whatever the location, make it an event by placing a unique pot there. Here, a clay container engraved with a dragon has its own spectacle, but when planted with a mix of forest treasures, it truly deserves the picture.

6. Blurred areas of change

Heartscape is an essential element of any well-planned garden. However, switching from a stone or brick area to a lush garden is often tough. The road is full of plants Containers help to reduce the organic gap from the mineral. Here, a patio brick retaining wall does not seem too cluttered, and it blends well with plenty of garden beyond thanks to a container collection in the intermediate zone.