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Its simple to start a successful container garden from scratch by just following a few guidelines. For the gardeners that already have them, one of their reasons is the flexibility you have with containers. Not only are they interesting, but they can also be very beautiful and for urban environments, your only option may be to place all your plants in garden pots.

Choosing Your Containers

You should try to have a variety in the size of your pots. A few larger pots (say three or four) followed by a few more medium pots and then several smaller pots. If you pick out a bright colored large pot, this will definitely draw your attention to that area – which is fine if that is what you are trying to achieve.

Placement Of Your Pots

Depending on the size of your space, start with larger pots that are about two or three feet tall. This will become a focal point to draw your eye in. Use existing focal point to place these large pots such as, a corner, next to a permanent pole, or near an important piece of furniture. You can also achieve the opposite effect to draw the eye AWAY from sore spots, like air conditioners, electric boxes, etc.

Once you have placed all the large pots where you like them (they aren’t permanent so you can move them at any time), take your medium sized pots and place a few around the larger ones. Since they will be pretty close to each other, try and imagine how it will look when there are trailing plants coming down from the larger pots. In most cases, two to three medium sized pots will be enough.

Now you can fill in the remaining areas with small pots. Since there are no set rules to this, place them randomly where they look good to you!

Prepare The Pots

Seal the insides of any terracotta pots with a good water sealant. Make sure all of your pots have a hole in the bottom for water drainage. If not, you will have to drill them with half inch holes (especially wood containers). To keep all the dirt from falling out the bottom, you’ll need to cover the inside of the hole with a couple layers of newspaper, a small piece of screen or, shards from a broken pot. Place a bowl under each pot if they are sitting on a wood deck or patio.

Selecting Plants

Use a variety of three different types of plants in your larger pots. Start with an upright plant that stands out taller than the rest, then a cover plant to fill in the middle and a trailing plant that falls down the sides of the pot and covers up the top rim. Select plants that require the same amount of watering but don’t be shy to experiment. Use your imagination and have a blast!

Chuck Wherty has been working in gardens since his early childhood and has always been interested in educating others on garden pot and landscaping techniques. If you’d like to know more about garden pots, visit AllGardenPots.com

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