Winter is a great season for container gardening. With seemingly endless possibilities you can be creative with your plant selections. This is a fun way to add interest to patios and porches or spice up a boring spot in your landscape. This gardening practice is for EVERYONE, especially with stylish Crescent Gardens pots! Container gardening…
There are many benefits to growing in containers. You may not have the outdoor space for a garden, or maybe you prefer to keep your flower or vegetable beds for yourself. Weeding, watering, and harvesting is easier. And kids love having their own containers to plant and tend. At KidsGardening, we are asked all the…
You have spent your hard-earned money on soil, plants and fertilizer, and cared for them for months. Don’t give up on them now just because they look tired. Depending on the part of the country you live in, you may have a couple more months before it’s time to empty your pots and store them…
Summer is the season of abundant harvests! From loads of tasty tomatoes and peppers to delicious fresh herbs, growing your favorite food crops in a container garden has never been easier thanks to the innovate designs of Crescent Garden containers. For more than a decade, I have been creating foodscape combinations in various Crescent Garden…
Container gardening is an easy way for families to dig into gardening fun! They require minimal care and maintenance. They are flexible in cost, size, and scope. Plus they provide opportunities for gardeners of all ages to express their creativity and engage in some experimentation. Here are five steps to help you begin your family’s…
Summer flowering containers add interest, color, texture, depth and a unique sense of personality to your outdoor spaces. With so many options available during the summer months, filling up your containers with all the beautiful, colorful plants and flowers you want is an easy task. In order to keep your plants and flowers looking beautiful…
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, in gardening containers, hanging planters, or even…
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 with golden French marigolds for a color echo, as well as…
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 supermarket – they are easy to grow on…
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 vacation every time you walk outside is…
Container gardening opens up an entire world of possibilities in the garden. Whether you have a large garden, balcony, or none at all, containers increase the amount of space you can grow plants. Another benefit of plants in containers is that they are portable, allowing you to move them as needed between seasons or even…
Who ever said small garden containers had to be boring or lack personality? Your 10-inch, 12-inch, or even smaller planters can make a bold statement even though they may not have the same growing space when compared to their larger cousins. This spring season you can create a bright, cheery flower display full of color,…
Problem Solving With Pots It’s a problem shared from young to old, from beginner gardener to experienced horticulturist, from city dweller to the homesteader: How do you grow what you want to grow in a particular space you are given? Here are four container gardening ideas different people found that worked! There is hope for…
When Joni Mitchell came out with the song ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ in the late 1970s, she sang that “They paved paradise, put up a parking lot”. People all over the world were nodding their heads at the dire concern that trees would be removed, placed in museums, and the world would be covered with concrete.…