Blogs on container garden ideas

To cheer me up on a miserable day!

By Spritzhenry, 6 Dec, 2007, 17 comments

It's wet and windy down here in Somerset, so I decided to look at bright and cheerful photos of my tubs. I thought you might enjoy looking at...

Tubs!

By Karenking, 14 Feb, 2008, 3 comments

I just love container planting, especially since my neighbours let me loose on theirs. Armed with a good sum of money, permission from my neighbours...

Tubs (2)!

By Karenking, 15 Feb, 2008, 2 comments

Here is the other trough, a mirror image of the other 1 as much as nature permits! I chose the original photo because it was a better picture...

My (container) garden.

By Raquel, 8 Mar, 2008, 16 comments

I have to admit I feel like a bit of an impostor because I don't have a real garden with streams and lots of land...all I have is a balcony which...

Help has arrived

By Muddy_boots, 2 Apr, 2008, 18 comments

Arrrrggggghhhh! On Sunday, I was checking out my pots of fushias, just to see what has survived, and noticed that I have been invaded by Vine...

EASY SATURDAY

By Muddy_boots, 12 Apr, 2008, 2 comments

Well, it HAD to be an easy Saturday. Rain stopped play and it wasn't much better yesterday. I was off into town and just got around the corner...

Antique fairs and nurseries.

By Blodyn, 2 Aug, 2008, 23 comments

This afternoon I went to an antiques fair in a nearby town.
Beryl likes antiques and my mum knows one of the stall holders. There's also a place...

Winter Interest in the Garden - part 6 - Containers

By Spritzhenry, 10 Feb, 2009, 21 comments

Well, here goes on another blog! This time, I've collected photos of some of my containers round the garden.
Colour in the garden in the winter...

Had To Replant My Wheel Barrow Display !!

By Jacque, 30 Mar, 2009, 21 comments

Do u remember the Photo back in Feb ? It had some Daffs Showin along with My Own Grown Primeroses :)

I was Waiting & Waiting For The Lovely...

Iron Containers All Planted Up 4 Summer 2009

By Jacque, 30 Apr, 2009, 33 comments

Got these 2 Containers last year 4 just over a Pound Each from a Plant Sale @ My Local Community Center ! The Polyanthuses & Primeroses have...

Planting Up The Wishing Well

By Jacque, 12 May, 2009, 22 comments

Today i got 2gether 1 Very Long Ivy ,1 Perfume Leafed Pink Geranium & 3 Blue Trailing Lobelias,
I started with Planting the Ivy 2 the Right...

MY KIND OF SHOPPING.

By Hollyeves, 18 May, 2009, 7 comments

I wanted to buy some pink or red plants for my long planters on the patio....Some of these i used in the planters and some for the garden.

I...

A few photos of my garden

By Donnah, 25 May, 2009, 12 comments

Really pleased this year all the hard work is paying of. The garden is starting to show colour.

pots and containers.

By Irish, 23 Jun, 2009, 69 comments

After my daughter counted the pots and containers in our garden last summer ( the wash out summer ) it got me thinking about GOY members and...

Looking after pots, baskets and containers in the heat wave...

By Crazydi, 2 Jul, 2009, 17 comments

Here in Cheshire, the intense heat is now starting to take it's toll on plants in containers in my garden, Compared to some areas of the country,...

My Swan Planter has a New Home ?

By Jacque, 13 Jul, 2009, 29 comments

Iv had my Swan Planter a good year now & the Border which she lived in had started to cover her making only her Head & Chest Visable...

Cow trough goes missing from local farmyard...

By Fluff, 13 Jul, 2009, 14 comments

Actually I didn't steal it...it came from the candle manufacturer who I work for believe it or not!
We make 'pillar' candles amongst other things......

replanting baskets, pots

By Sanbaz, 23 Sep, 2009, 80 comments

today as im having a relatively pain free day i decided to get something done in the garden, the sun is shinning here in blackpool and my baskets...

Well here goes, with a lot of help from my GoY freinds

By Franktf4, 13 Oct, 2009, 18 comments

most of you know of my bad luck with my last blog. (just tapped the save draft key and had to work out how to get my blog back, but I mannaged...

Recycling..

By Usernut, 15 Oct, 2009, 27 comments

Out in the garden today getting rid of stuff I don,t need when I remembered I had these old car tyres.

I thought i,d try to make some planters...

Making use of !!!

By Stroller, 20 Oct, 2009, 8 comments

Hubby cleared out the shed and found my moms old singer machine which I was loathe to throw away, so off came the sewing part a shallow box was...

A home made 3 tier plant stand

By Franktf4, 20 Oct, 2009, 9 comments

Hello everyone, If you have managed to take alook at some of my photo's, you will see the one in front of the G/H. withall of the potted plants...

Mums Pots........

By Hollyeves, 21 Oct, 2009, 12 comments

I was at my mothers at the weekend......she is 84 and needs a bit of help now at home........ i was taking something out to her old garage....which...

Buckets As Plant Containers!!

By Jacque, 29 Oct, 2009, 24 comments

I starteded 2 repot My Large Container Fuchsias yesterday
as u can see they need it as the Roots had filled out 2 the Pots Limit

I ran out...

a bit of this and a bit of that

By Grindle, 11 Nov, 2009, 27 comments

While clearing the garden, I found I had a number of empty pots of varying shapes and sizes, the largest being a big blue one sitting in the...

Window boxes, pots and baskets for winter...

By Crazydi, 11 Nov, 2009, 22 comments

I love planting up containers for every season :) The basic principles of "garden design" also applies to containers....so here's how I include...

New for old - MAGIC!

By Spritzhenry, 18 Nov, 2009, 34 comments

After Crazydi 'nicked' the idea I had for my next blog, (LOL-great minds think alike, Di!) I came up with a 'cunning plan'-and here we go!
I...