Container Gardening Archives

Success in the Garden starts with a breeder! Thank a breeder - National Garden Bureau

Is Your Garden Thriving? Thank a Plant Breeder!

Container Gardening, Garden Planning & Design, Perennials, Planning and Design

Today you don’t need to be a horticultural expert to grow tasty tomatoes, mouthwatering watermelon, or fragrant lilacs. Advances in breeding over the past decade have resulted in plants that are easier for home gardeners to grow. They are more disease-resistant, weather tolerant, and prolific than ever before. “These researchers are dedicated to developing varieties...

Fall In Love With Container Gardening: 5 Great Reasons

Container Gardening

Container gardening, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Here are five great reasons to give container gardening a try: Beginning gardeners Plant Anywhere Architectural Interest Simplify maintenance Accessibility Additional points 1. Container gardening provides a baby step for the beginning gardener. The idea of gardening appeals to many people but sometimes...

Pretty Portable pollinator gardens - National Garden Bureau

Pretty, portable pollinator gardens: Top 10 plants for pollinator-friendly containers

Container Gardening, Pollinator Gardening

Bees, birds, butterflies, and other pollinators play an important role in our global ecosystem. In fact, they are essential. By transporting pollen from one plant to another, they make growing the food we eat and the beautiful garden spaces we enjoy possible. One of the easiest ways to support a healthy growing environment is to...

Mix-and-Match Edibles and Flowers for Gorgeous Combinations and a Productive Garden

Easy Ways To Create Edibles and Flowers Combinations

Container Gardening, Foodscaping, Vegetables

Peanut butter and jelly... Mac and cheese... Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds Perfect combinations make life a little happier. Just like favorite flavors and power couples, your garden can benefit from great combinations, too. Who says veggies need to be relegated to the backyard? Beautifully blending veggies, fruit, herbs, and flowers means you can show...

Quick and Easy Summer Edible Containers, 1-2-3!

Container Gardening, Vegetables

If you're craving homegrown goodies but lack garden space, you'll find fabulous new vegetable introductions that work wonderfully in your edible containers. While many tomatoes can grow in pots, you'll need a large, 5-gallon container to grow traditional varieties. However, with advances in breeding, new, compact varieties make the perfect addition to container gardens, even...

Summer Shade Containers are as easy as 1 plant-2 plants-3 plants

Quick and Easy Summer Shade Containers 1-2-3

Container Gardening, Flower Gardening

If your porch, patio, or balcony is more shady than sunny, don’t worry: we have container combinations for you! We've talked about Quick and Easy Summer Sun Containers, now let's talk about summer container gardening in the shade using the 1 plant, 2 plants, 3 plants method as well... One for Shade When you’re gardening...

Create your own summer sun containers, it's as easy as 1,2,3 - National Garden Bureau

Quick and Easy Summer Sun Containers, 1-2-3!

Container Gardening, Flower Gardening

Create beautiful sun container gardens quickly and easily with just one, two, or three plants. There’s a reason container gardening is so popular. It’s easy for new gardeners to grow plants without a big time or money commitment. Experienced gardeners use container gardens to add focal points, design elements, and curb appeal to their homes....

Foodscaping in Containers is a great way to maximize beauty and bounty throughout the growing season. - National Garden Bureau

How to Foodscape in Containers

Container Gardening, Foodscaping

Foodscaping is a great way to maximize beauty and bounty throughout the growing season. The Foodscape concept is simple: combine ornamental and edible plants together. It is all about making the most of the square footage you have access to, and containers are an ideal place to start! Before you get started planting foodscape combinations,...

Victory Garden 2.0 - 10 tips for container gardens - National Garden Bureau

Plant a Container Victory Garden 2.0

Container Gardening, Planting Tips

Ten tips for planting a container Victory Garden 2.0 Grow a Container Victory Garden? Yes, You Can! James H. Burdett did not address container growing in The Victory Garden Manual, but times were different in 1943. Today, growing edibles in containers is probably one of the fastest emerging trends we are seeing. Plus, with vegetable...

Seeds for a new Garden Season - Let's Grow Compact Vegetables - National Garden Bureau

Tasty Compact Vegetable Seeds to Grow

Container Gardening, Planting, Seeds and Seed Starting

Looking for compact vegetable seeds that are easy to grow? Here are some new and old favorites to grow this season. ‘Tis the season of seed catalogs! I love finding them in my mailbox. It’s a wonderful time of year to curl up and read about all the new and old vegetable varieties. A great...