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Purple and White Container Garden

Garden Experiments — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 16:14:51 +0000

The colors for the Easter season are purple and white, so this Easter-themed container garden is just perfect. It sits in front of a church with another paired on the other side of the door. The plants in this container garden include: White Nancy lamium (Lamium maculatum) Pansies (Viola spp) Wallflower (Erysimum linofolium ‘Bowles Mauve’) […]

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Low-Maintenance Container Gardens

Garden Experiments — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 12:41:31 +0000

With the hot sun and the high humidity of our Mississippi summers, having a lot of container gardens sprinkled around my yard usually means I’m going to have to do a lot of watering each week. Watering my garden is a tedious chore. The hose gets tangled on everything, my shoes usually end up getting […]

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Add Structure, Style, & Color to Your Garden with a Trellis & Flowering Vine

Garden Experiments — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 23:24:50 +0000

When I decided that the raised bed in my front yard needed a little height to add structure and color, my first thought was some sort of permanent structure, whether it be garden art or something a plant could grow on. Metal, Freestanding Trellis I looked for a way to include a flowering vine on […]

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Tropical Plants Container Garden for Summer Color

Garden Experiments — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 14:24:59 +0000

I decided to go for something a little more unique for a couple of my container gardens this spring. It took me a while to find the right container, but I finally found these lovely, lightweight ashen colored large containers to use. I decided I wanted bright, colorful plants to greet me at the sides […]

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My 2016 Fall Planter

Garden Experiments — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 15:33:19 +0000

I’m not cheap, I’m frugal. When it comes to my garden, that means I often repurpose plants from one planting or flower bed into another one. There’s nothing wrong with that, right? In this case, I repurposed a croton from a container garden that had long outgrown its original pot and mixed it in with […]

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Use Fairy Lights in a Container Garden

Garden Experiments — Sun, 23 Oct 2016 17:47:24 +0000

This year I planted Mandevilla in the spring/summer container gardens I planted for my mom. I just replaced those summer plants with fall mums, pansies, decorative cabbage, and snapdragons for the fall. Since the Mandevilla vine isn’t dead yet, I left it and the small trellises in the pots. After all, the fall weather sometimes […]

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What’s Eating My Jalapeños?

Garden Experiments — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 21:24:47 +0000

You’ll never believe what I found eating my jalapeños. It’s a hot pepper so you would think that it would be protected from hungry critters. But, that is not always the case. I planted my jalapeño peppers in containers this year. They were grown in part shade just along the edge of my driveway. I have […]

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The Secret to Watering Container Gardens

Garden Experiments — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 23:46:09 +0000

I hate to water, but I like to grow things in containers. These two things don’t mix. It’s the same in my kitchen though. I hate to cook but I really like to eat good, healthy, delicious food. *Sigh* What’s a girl to do? I’m always looking for ways to simplify or even automate some […]

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Container Gardens from Frederick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park

Garden Experiments — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 15:28:48 +0000

I had the pleasure of touring the Frederick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan. These wonderful container gardens are from their 2015 plantings. The color combination of the tropical plants and the height of these planters really capture the eye. These very large planters on posts were in the Tropical […]

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