Pots, planters, windowboxes, and hanging baskets: If it can hold potting soil, we’ll stick a plant in it. Some of us have gotten the knack for creating and maintaining amazing container plantings and use those skills to the utmost. Others of us aren’t quite as successful, but we can admire what our more successful counterparts have [...]
Since there were several queries and comments on my post about the containers at Chanticleer, I mentioned that I would try to contact Dan Benarcik, the horticulturist who is the designer of several of these containers to get his input on the ‘hows’, ‘whats’, etc. I was lucky enough to run into Dan on Saturday [...]
In my previous post, I shared some relatively low-growing foliage plants that are easy to raise from seed. The group I like even better, though, is the taller-growing annuals: the shrub substitutes, if you will. When you have lots of space to fill and a limited budget, these quick growers are invaluable for providing height [...]
I have always been a huge fan of Chanticleer, what was once a private estate garden in the suburbs of Philadelphia that was turned into a public garden in the early 1990s by its owner, Adolph Rosengarten and led by the extremely talented Chris Woods, and in recent years by the very capable hands of Bill Thomas, [...]
I’m so enamored with using containers in the garden that I sometimes don’t even bother to plant them. And empty pot can work wonders in the garden. Of course it has to be a good-looking pot, but given that, a container can become an instant ornament in almost any garden scene. All you have to [...]