Incorporate bold foliage to your mixed container plantings. Foliage provides a great foundation for showing off your flowers. Trailing plants like ivy for example can soften the edges of containers.

Container Gardening Tips

Container Gardening Tips by Laurie

There are several ways to use colour in your containers to add interest and appeal. Two of the ways are colour echoing and using different colour harmonies. Colour echoing is when you take a colour from another plant such as white variegated foliage and add a white flower. You can also look at the eye of a flower and find a colour and get a foliage plant with that same colour. It is just repetition of a colour from one cultivar to another…For more colour advice view the .pdf below.

Colour Wheel for Container Gardening

Colour Wheel for Container Gardening

Here are some more helpful Gardening Tips:

LAWN CARE FOR THE YEAR                    

Deer Resistant Plant List                     

Poinsettia Care 

Shade Plant List                                                 

Bulb Planting In Containers

Dividing Perennials In The Fall                        

Drought Tolerant Plants

Pruning Fruit Trees 1                                         

Pruning Fruit Trees 2

Plants Attractive to Hummingbirds

Making Your Own Moss Hanging Baskets                

Planting Tips For Bulbs