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1.
Select pots large enough to accommodate your
landscape plants for several years—no need to start
over every spring.
2.
Use a slightly heavier potting soil than used for
annual flowers or vegetables—try to locate the kind
of potting soil used by nurseries for growing trees
and shrubs in containers
3.
Select plants with summer-long visual interest. For
example, use shrub roses which bloom all summer
rather than lilacs which bloom only in the spring.
4.
Select plants for the planned location of your
landscape container garden—if it’s going to be in
the shade, use plants like hosta, shrubs like
hydrangea, and trees like Japanese maple.
5.
Have a place in mind to move your container
landscape for winter—perhaps a garden shed with a
little insulation wrapped around the containers, for
example.
6.
Use a good slow release fertilizer for container
grown nursery plants and you will only have to
fertilize once each spring.
7.
If you are placing your container landscape on
second or third story apartment house deck, use
common sense about the weight of your container
landscape.
8.
The frequency of required watering will vary from
every day to every third day depending upon the
plants, the container, and the soil you use.
And if you are renting a home or
apartment, the best thing about your container
garden or landscape is that, when you move, you can
take it with you.
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