Selecting Plants For Container Gardening
Planting and growing tips on what is needed for healthy potted plants. With recommendations of plants, vegetables and herbs grown in containers.Choosing the right container is just as important as selecting the best plant for potting. From hanging baskets and windowboxes to tubs and pots. New or recycled. The choice of options is endless. Plants have specific needs and that is most important to ensuring your container planting project is rewarded with healthy, spectacular results.
Growing wild ginger is easy. The details here provide information on where to plant and how to grow and care for Asarum in your garden.
The Campanula or bellflower are low-growing perennials. Here are recommendations and tips on where to plant, and how to grow and care for them.
Ilex crenata or evergreen Japanese holly is a good alternative to boxwood shrub. Here are tips how to grow, care and prune Japanese Holly.
Asplenium scolopendrium (Hart's Tongue Fern) is a hardy evergreen fern. Learn how to grow and care for this ornamental fern in your garden.
Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens' or black mondo grass is easy care and low maintenance. It is suitable for edging, groundcover and container gardening.
Osmanthus heterophyllus or false holly is an evergreen plant similar to Christmas holly. Learn how to grow and prune false holly shrub.
Everyone recognizes Ilex or holly bush. Here are care tips for where to plant, how to grow, prune and more about holly shrubs and trees.
Aucuba japonica, or spotted laurel, is a low maintenance, attractive evergreen shrub. Here are tips on how to grow and prune aucuba shrubs.
Choisya ternate, also known as Mexican orange blossom or Mexican mock orange, is a fragrant flowering, evergreen shrub. Tips how to grow and prune.
Aromatic Russian sage is a summer and autumn flowering perennial. Here are tips for where to plant and how to grow Perovskia atriplicifolia.
Tips for planting and growing dusty miller plant (silver ragwort) in the garden. How to grow and care as a perennial or annual depending on your region.
Guide on how to grow Daboecia cantabrica (Irish heath) showing how easy it is to plant, care and prune this low-growing, evergreen shrub.