Container Gardening
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How To Choose Plants For Your (Container) Garden?
Choosing plants for your garden or container garden, or for a bright corner in your home can be quite simple if you follow this one piece of advice: look around your neighborhood and in the gardens of those who live in exactly the same climate that you do, and take note of what plants both…
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In My Winter Window Garden…..Stunning Cyclamen!
Not to deceive you with the title of this post…..the miracle isn’t that my cyclamen are blooming but rather that I finally realized the importance of splurging a little on some cheerful blooms during the winter months! And potted cyclamen now for sale everywhere certainly fit the bill! On my visits to The Netherlands, I…
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Container Gardening: Yucca In Bloom!
I recently read that the Yucca plant has the potential to bloom, which I found quite interesting and mysterious. And then lo and behold I was walking down the street and there in front of my very eyes was a Yucca plant in a container in bloom! I really was quite amazed and thanks to…
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Container Gardening: Purple Heart and Lantana
Purple Heart, which is a variety of Wandering Jew, looks fabulous when paired with colorful Lantana, don’t you think? I pass this lovely little planter ( built in to the top of an old stone wall) located on a historic cobblestone lane that I walk down each week on my way to do the grocery…
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Container Gardening: Verbena Love
I’m in love with Verbena, and this year I’ve finally had a small success with a few little seedlings by virtue of the fact that I planted them in a big empty patch of dirt at the base of my lemon tree! Flowers that consist of clusters of tiny blooms always seem to be amongst…
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Container Gardening: Experimenting With Ixora
Trying something new in my container garden is always a pleasure, though of course a bit of an experiment, especially regarding our climate here on a mountaintop in Northern Israel, where we can grow some tropical and sub-tropical plants, but one can’t always be sure which plants will survive the summer heat and the frosts…
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Container Gardening: Palms With Cascading Petunias
On a recent trip to Haifa I spotted this gorgeous palm petunia combination in containers in the parking lot of a tile store we were visiting. I had to share these photos with you, since this is such a simple container gardening idea, and yet so very successful — if you can get your flowers…
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In My Other Neighbor’s Garden
In the morning when I walk out the front door to see if my boys can still make it in time to catch the van to school, just up the hill, this is what I see— a beautiful view with a beautiful tropical garden in the foreground. The very garden that I helped my friend…
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Decoupage With Fabric— Pots For Your Garden!
We needed a quick teacher appreciation gift for my daughter’s teacher last week, and I finally got around to trying out fabric decoupage on terra cotta pots! I’m totally in love with the results and can’t believe it took me so long to give this one a try. Oh well, everything in it’s time! And…
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In My Neighbor’s Container Garden
I’m happy to say that I have been blessed with a wonderful neighbor who loves container gardening as much as I do, and is a great inspiration to me as far as trying new things to her garden and surrounding herself with blooming flowers! The white trailing flowers above are called Verbena, the common name…
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Container Gardening: The Joy Of Simple Flowers
Summer is here and one of my favorite little things to do to welcome the season is to go out and buy a few little pots of colorful flowers to add some cheer to my container garden and outdoor seating area. Spend just a bit more and instead of buying little plants in flats, buy…
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My Tropical Container Garden Mid May……
While I can’t honestly say that I’ve been tending to my container garden with great effort, the roses in my built-in planter are in full bloom in a very big way. Which is a good thing, since after the huge infestation of aphids and white fungus, which was making me quite sad, the blooms seemed…