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Container GardeningNikita Sorokin2025-06-23T18:19:39-05:00

Gardening Ideas

Container Gardening

Perennials for Container Gardening

If you’re looking to be a bit more budget-conscious as a gardener, using perennials and shrubs in containers can help you get more bang for your buck! Check out our perennial plant recommendations, overwintering tips, and more.

ALL CONTAINER GARDENING PROJECTS

CONTAINER TRELLISING

Check out five ways to support your climbing plants with a trellis that complements the style of your home and garden!

SCREEN YOUR VIEW IN STYLE

Learn how to add a lush living screen to an outdoor space that’s in need of a bit more privacy or just some vertical green space!

A MOVEABLE FEAST

Learn the secrets to creating a flexible patio space that can be quickly rearranged to suit any upcoming event! Follow our step-by-step DIY to learn how to build mobile crate planters.

MULTI-SEASON CONTAINER GARDENING

A new season doesn’t have to mean new containers! Find planting suggestions and learn how you can reinvent the same container to suit all four seasons.

CONTAINER DESIGN TWO WAYS

Learn how you can use the versatile 2025 Recipe of the Year ‘Ireland’ in both upright containers and window boxes.

PROVEN ACCENTS^®

These resilient foliage plants will add depth, texture, and floods of color to any container, patio, or landscape.

2024 NATIONAL RECIPES

Explore 2024’s award-winning plant combinations.

GROWING SOLO

Plant up individual varieties, and arrange them later!

CONTAINED ABUNDANCE

Use these planting diagrams to create next level combination plantings. Their size and vibrance will truly impress!

COMBINATIONS FOR SUN & SHADE

Check out these versatile plantings for sunny and shady areas.

TERRA-COTTA PLANTER WALL

Vertical gardening is made easy in this in-depth DIY using terra-cotta pots and a wooden fence.

DIY: BUILD YOUR OWN CRATE PLANTER

Set your patio decor apart with this boho-chic planter made of upcycled wooden crates. We’ll show you the whole process.

FOUR SEASONS CONTAINER

Another take on the all-season container, featuring North Pole Thuja

WINDOW BOX WALL

See how Casey Lynn Lawrence created a show-stopping window box wall with a lush assortment of coleus, sweet potato vines, salvias, and petunias.

PLANT CARE & MAINTENANCE

Learn how to keep your annual container plantings healthy and looking fresh through the gardening season with some light pruning and deadheading.

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