Container gardening
Container gardening is a dream come true for a gardener who has no land. These are portable flower beds and a variety of flower beds – a harmonious unity with nature where it would seem that this is not expected. How pleasant it is to admire the amazing compositions of those plants that would not be so easy to get along on one piece of land. Plant containers can be placed literally anywhere-building facades, areas in front of cafes and restaurants, street poles, fences and restraints.
Types of container gardening
Popular planters, flowerpots and unusual tubs allow you not only to add interesting decorative elements to the garden, but also to preserve the overall style regardless of the location. So, for example, very often beautiful containers with flowers adorn the front entrance, so that your walk through the garden begins right from the doorstep.
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Clay and ceramic pots-usually they have a traditional rounded shape and restrained colors. They are used to complement landscape and Mediterranean landscape styles.
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Wooden tubs - there are several design options in different styles, from accentuated rustic to loft.
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Metal planters are relatively light structures. They are used together with plastic inserts to protect the soil from overheating, require anti-corrosion protection and tinting.
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Concrete containers are massive, usually stationary structures. Strong, frost-resistant, but such flower containers do not provide oxygen access to the roots of plants, they can not be moved, they have a limited design.
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Flower pots and containers for plants made of plastic are light, strong enough, and last a long time even with year-round use.
Types and sizes of plant containers
Container gardening and its advantages
Container gardening has many advantages:
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Mobility-moving containers for flowers is much easier than transplanting plants or carrying out landscaping work on the site every year.
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A decorative vegetable garden can be arranged even if there is no free open ground, or it has a poor composition.
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Capricious plants that are demanding on the composition of the soil, and require special care, are easier to grow.
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If the weather becomes unfavorable, container flower beds can be removed indoors.
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Plants in flower containers are easy to replace, renew the landscape, and are easier to care for.
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With container gardening, plants are much less likely to be damaged, less affected by diseases, than in the open ground.
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In containers, you can grow plants that are not suitable for planting on the site. In the warm season, they will delight the eye in the garden, and with a cold snap, they can be brought back to the house.
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Zoning-it is convenient to form mobile walls from flat and high containers. In hot weather, they will provide shading, and in windy weather, they will protect you from the wind.
Selection of plants for containers
In an ornamental garden, you can grow almost any plants, but it is better to select species with compact root systems. Keep in mind that the dimensions of the container and the adult plant must match each other. Plants have a spectacular appearance:
Plants such as petunia, verbena, lobelia, morning glory are perfect for vertical gardening of a gazebo, terrace or functional canopy. You can plant not only flowers, but also conifers, trees or shrubs, as well as cereals. It is necessary to select the assortment taking into account the conditions in which the composition will be located – sun, shade, windy or windless side, as well as the stylistic solution of the entire garden as a whole.
You can create decorative compositions in container flower beds. Combinations of tall crops, such as bonsai grown in fairly large pots, perennials with dense and voluminous foliage, and ampel plants, have the best appearance. Aromatic herbs and groundcover plants have a spectacular appearance.
Container gardening in a modern landscape
Depending on the design of the selected container and the types of plants, container gardening is suitable for any style: landscape, regular, Japanese, rustic and others. Florentes landscape design studio will create for you a magnificent container gardening or a unique decorative vegetable garden in Lviv, Uzhgorod, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi. We recommend using container gardening if::
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The area of the plot is too small-in the patio, in the courtyards of townhouses, in commercial areas, containers with plants allow you to decorate the entrance groups and add green ones, even if there is very little free space.
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The territory is paved or paved, and there is no open ground for planting plants.
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It is necessary to design small architectural forms or separate areas – terraces, gazebos, stairs with wide steps, verandas, recreation areas.
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There is a desire to use unusual crops that are demanding on the composition of the soil or temperature regime to decorate the site. In containers, you can grow exotic, as well as Southern crops.
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You need to make a mobile or replaceable flower garden-you can rearrange the flower containers, change their location, for example, before the arrival of guests. Or, depending on the season, replace already blooming plants with those that finish blooming.
Care of plants in containers
In a closed container, the amount of moisture and nutrients is limited. To create comfortable conditions for plants, you need to use fertile soil and regularly apply fertilizers. As for indoor species, it is necessary to make drainage at the bottom of the container – a filling of small stones and sand. It is important to ensure that the soil inside the containers is always well moistened. If you move plants from place to place, you need to make sure that the light level and other conditions remain suitable for them.
When it seems that everything in the garden is already landscaped and landscaped, but something is missing, it's time to add accents in the form of small architectural forms or original flower containers. After all, there is no limit to perfection, as well as the imagination of a passionate person.
