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How to Repot Container Plants
Fine Gardening — Trimming the roots and refreshing the soil give potbound plants a new lease on life Most healthy container garden plants eventually outgrow their pots. A good way to reinvigorate a rootbound plant is to repot it. In my former job as a greenhouse ...More…
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Container Plantings in the Shade Yield a Spectacular Garden
Fine Gardening — You don't need a lot of sun or even access to the soil to have a lovely garden Just when I get a gardening routine down pat, new challenges arise to test my knowledge or shatter my perceptions. Such was the case when I moved from my previous ...More…
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Staging a Container Plant Display
Fine Gardening — Using five pots or fifty, create a tiered arrangement with behind-the-scenes props I have a passion for plants in pots. I grow them by the score in a sprawling garden of containers arranged like a border on my patio. By early summer, my garden of ...More…
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Make Your Own Hypertufa Container
Fine Gardening — Hypertufa looks like stone but weighs less and takes whatever shape you want Containers made from hypertufa are wonderful for displaying rock-garden plants or succulents. Over time, the hypertufa ages gracefully, collecting a patina of mosses and ...More…
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Enter the 2008 Container Design Challenge
Fine Gardening — This year's contest asks you to embrace the versatility of container gardening: A pot-or anything that holds water-is an easy way to create an instant water feature. Explore the variety of plants that can grow in these conditions while creating ...More…
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Container TLC
Fine Gardening — The right care and feeding are the secrets to keeping your pots lush and healthy all season long Growing plants in containers is one of my favorite ways to garden. Come August, however, I've had it with deadheading and lugging watering cans. Last ...More…
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25 Litre Plastic Water Container
Amazon UK — Features: All materials used in the manufacture of the container and closures conform to national and international foodstuff legislation. These jerry cans are suitable for all types of liquids, including water, oil, petrol, and many types of chemicals. ...More…
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Containers that Keep Kicking into Fall
Fine Gardening — Pick plants that stand up to frost The transition from the exuberance of summer, when my containers are looking their fullest and most luxuriant, to the first frost, when the more tender plants collapse, used to be an upsetting time for me. But ...More…
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Using Perennials in Pots
Fine Gardening — Save money by choosing plants that you can transfer to the garden at the end of the year Before this, I hadn't tried planting perennials in containers. At first, visions of flopping plants and pathetic foliage flashed through my head. What was I ...More…
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Planting Ideas for Autumn
Fine Gardening — These four recipes hold up even as temperatures go down Once the weather starts to cool and trees begin their glorious transformation from green to orange, red, purple, and yellow, it's all too easy to lament the passing of the gardening season ...More…
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Designing Great Containers
Fine Gardening — A little experimenting at the nursery yields better combinations at home It doesn't take long for a fun adventure at the local garden center or greenhouse to become an overwhelming, hair-pulling experience. With the bazillion plant and pot ...More…
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Stylish Shady Containers
Fine Gardening — Low light doesn't have to cramp your creativity or limit your plant choices Born in England, I grew up with a sincere love of gardening. When we moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1996, I came across an unfamiliar phrase that filled me with ...More…