When you garden in a small area like a city garden, a hi-rise building terrace or a narrow alley, one of the ways you can gain or increase planting space is the use of containers. We have even developed a phrase for this avocation: Container Gardening. Yes, you can grow potatoes in a laundry basket.
If you go to your standard garden store and price containers, you may find them costly. I mean, it is triage. What do you want more? Exotic new plants or fancy containers?So many choices in life. How stylish do you want to be? Some people like funk. Some people like glitz or techno. Or whimsy.
So I thought I would present you, cher Readers, with some creative, varied and unusual containers I have gathered from a glorious google tour of the net container gardening universe.
Look at junk with a creative eye. Anything you have that will hold soil is a possible container. Use industrial horse troughs. Use those capacious old aluminum pots from the thrift shop.Do not forget that you must punch holes in the bottom of any container you plant in. Do not drown the Petunias.
The Kitchen Fairy Garden below is one woman's answer to the Fairy Garden craze.
Now this is what I call Ghetto Garden Fabulous. Your ghetto garden may be created from necesssity or otherwise. Maybe we are witnessing the rise of a new, whimsical and environmentally sound genre in gardening. Whatever is happening, I like it.
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