Add Summer Beauty with Annual Flowers
With the return of warm weather, our thoughts turn to spending time in our gardens. For many of us, that means adding colorful annual flowers. Annual flowers are an easy way to add beauty to your outdoor space through the summer. Whether you plant them in the ground,...
Chapter Three: Using the Origami Planter for Summer Flower Container Gardening
The third chapter in the Origami planter container gardening story took a turn for the worse. Weather and pestilence were not my friends. I planted and staked a lovely, sturdy, eight-inch-tall Sun Gold tomato in the center of the container garden and surrounded it...
Greens for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
After a very long, cold, and fussy Spring, we finally have delicious mixed, cut-and-come-again greens whenever we want them. Quite some time has passed since I planned out my edibles container. So long, in fact, that the first large harvest tasted like, well, a...
Container Gardening with Herbs
Fresh herbs add delicious flavor to your favorite dishes that dried herbs just don’t compare to. However, the limp herbs on your grocery store shelf are expensive and aren’t always the best option. The good news is that you don’t have to settle for herbs from the...
Design a Tropical, Low-Maintenance Summer Container Garden
Our gardens can have many different looks, themes, and characteristics to give us that unique feel we all crave as gardeners, and one look many of us seek year after year is a bold, tropical look. The ability to create an outdoor oasis that feels like an instant...
Inspiring Container Gardening Stories – How a Parent With Plants Grew a Plant Parent
I wish I could say I grew up with a green thumb, or that I knew the right plants for each season by the time I could do my times tables, but, honestly, mulching was just a chore, transplanting was a job, and watering felt like torture in the sweltering Nashville...
