Container Flower Gardening

Apartment style constructions have replaced the sprawling yards that most older constructions flaunted. This is just one of the many prices we are paying for modernization and industrialization. Nevertheless, the green thumb has always used ingenuity to pursue the hobby that adds quality to the environment and reduces pollutant exposure. Container gardening, as the name amply suggests, refers to the growing of plants in discarded or special containers.



Container Flower Gardening

Container flower gardening refers exclusively to the growing of flowering plants in containers. You could used chipped china, glass or metal bottles and even cheese or canned-food tins for the indulgence. You can grow alyssums, marigolds, begonias, coleus, browallias, geraniums, impatiens and latanas in containers. Container flower gardening gives you the liberty to spruce up the living room and other guest-centric areas of the home, such as the lobby and guest-room, when and as required.

There are a number of online and offline resources dedicated to the art of container flower gardening that supply you with containers of various sizes and special garden tools. The containers, either bought or generated from the kitchen, could be sorted to suit a preplanned theme. You could pick from a color scheme or a size theme and accordingly assimilate the containers into a stand or tray.
Among the many varieties of flowering plants popularly chosen for container flower gardening are:

• Periwinkles
• Pansies
• Nasturtiums
• Petunias
• Snapdragons
• Thunbergias
• Salvias
• Zinnias
• Sanvitalias

The art of container flower gardening involves the identification of:

• A suitable area in the home that can accommodate one or many of the containers set aside for the garden.
• Plastic, metallic or ceramic pots or containers.
• Planting mediums that drain rapidly, but only after retaining sufficient root moisture.
• Soil-less mixes that keep the flowering plant free from soil- borne diseases and most essentially, weeds.
• A stand or tray to ensure daily relocation of the plants for their vital supply of direct sunlight.