Container Gardening Complete

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chapter 6

More Container

Concepts

The possibilities are nearly limitless when it

comes to growing in containers, and there’s

no doubt that your own creativity is the best

muse, but a little extra inspiration never hurts.

Sometimes, the best container designs are an

extension of a bright idea someone else had first,

and there’s nothing wrong with borrowing a little

inspiration from another gardener who shares

your style or whose style you can easily modify to

fit your own. In fact, garden tours, public gardens,

magazines, websites, and books like this one

are the perfect places to get your creative juices

flowing; they can help you craft some pretty

wonderful stuff.

In this chapter, I’ll introduce ten additional

container gardening concepts easily tailored

to many different gardening styles. All of these

concepts are scalable and readily adapted to

whatever plants you’d like to grow, provided

they’re the right physical size for the container.

TABLETOP PLANTERS

Greening up your outdoor living space can be

as effortless as having a living centerpiece. Use

pint-sized tabletop planters to adorn side tables,

beverage carts, bistro tables, outdoor bars, and

other small surfaces on your patio, deck, or

balcony. Or group three or four petite tabletop

planters together on a larger dining table or

outdoor sofa table. A single large container filled

with edible or flowering plants also makes a great

centerpiece for a bigger outdoor dining table. For

good design, select a round container for a round

table and an oblong container for an oval or

rectangular table.

Public container plantings, such as this pot on a

sidewalk in Quebec City, Canada, that uses cherry

tomatoes as a “spiller,” are great places to find

inspiring ideas.

Though these pots of basil will have to be moved

when diners arrive, the ability to toss a few fresh basil

leaves into their salads makes the eort well worth it.

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