Garden Gal

Container gardening is very easy, but there are secrets to ensure big, bold, overflowing pots to decorate your spring landscape. With more than 50 large container gardens in my personal gardens, I’ve learned a lot from MY mistakes!  However, here’s a head start to successful containers and the  most common mis-steps for you to avoid that local gardeners, myself included, have made.

During my childhood years, evergreen trees were the living room centerpieces of holiday memories.  Although a decorated tree still is part of our Christmas décor, I also like to use living evergreens at the front door.  Because trees are not actively growing through the holidays, classic evergreens can stay in their growers’ pots for months before being planted.   That’s why they can provide a living presence when all other plants look dead or have died back to the ground.  Especially inviting is that the number of evergreen varieties offer many decorating possibilities.