{"id":99,"date":"2010-10-23T20:12:02","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T20:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/theme-container-gardens-for-the-deck-and-patio\/"},"modified":"2010-10-23T20:12:02","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T20:12:02","slug":"theme-container-gardens-for-the-deck-and-patio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/theme-container-gardens-for-the-deck-and-patio\/","title":{"rendered":"Theme Container Gardens for the Deck and Patio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Theme Container Gardens for the Deck and Patio<\/strong><\/p>\n

Creating your own container garden can be so much fun, especially if you think of using themes.\u00a0 Consider showing off your style with a small kitchen garden, or create an outdoor pot designed to attract hummingbirds or to welcome butterflies.\u00a0 Our beings are drawn to beautiful scents, what about a container giving off wonderful fragrances.<\/p>\n

Culinary containers or kitchen gardens are especially handy as a source of herbs, leafy lettuce or parsley, or even edible flowers.\u00a0 You may wish to combine many edibles to create your own miniature garden at the door.\u00a0 Combining edibles with your flowering or ornamental plants can be so attractive \u2013 imagine Beefsteak Tomatoes surrounded by basil or oregano.\u00a0 For foliage color, use green and purple leaved basils, leaf lettuce and Swiss chard.\u00a0 Parsley is especially great, goes anywhere, and adds attractive texture and rich green color to any container combination. Nasturtiums are grown for their showy, spurred flowers and trailing ones are sensational in your planters \u2013 they are edible and give a finished look to the container.<\/p>\n

Herbs that work wonderfully well in culinary containers are chives, lemon balm, rosemary, different sages and oregano.\u00a0 Lemongrass is wonderful in soups and adds a nice vertical accent to any planter or outdoor pot.<\/p>\n

And then of course there are those peppers, both colorful and hot.\u00a0 Cherry tomatoes should not be forgotten, they look pretty in your arrangements and the spectacular patio tomatoes are there for the picking.\u00a0 Don\u2019t forget arugula and of course golden thyme for another theme.<\/p>\n

The best place to use your fragrant plants is in garden pots on your deck or patio.\u00a0 This is where we can enjoy their lovely scents when relaxing in the evening.\u00a0 Mix scented plants with foliage or flowers and see what you can come up with.\u00a0 Some plants, such as heliotrope, can be enjoyed once they begin to bloom and for the rest of the summer.\u00a0 Lilies that have been forced in your pots can be moved to the garden after they bloom.\u00a0 Others such as tuberoses may have to be moved indoors before frost and then brought out again next year.\u00a0 Dahlias and of course geraniums make a great show and a delightful addition to your container gardens.<\/p>\n

Hummingbirds will arrive right on your deck or patio if you give them the proper encouragement.\u00a0 Along with your hummingbird feeder, some of the best container plants to attract them are annual sages.\u00a0 They come in so many colors from bright red to shades of mauve and purpose to creamy white and pink.\u00a0 Try out one or more of them in your garden pots. You may also use Nicotiana plant, petunias and dwarf dahlias too.<\/p>\n

To keep all of our container plants going all summer, deadhead regularly and of course water and feed on a timely basis.\u00a0 When plants become scrawny or leggy, just cut them back hard in mid-summer and then they will produce more new flowers and foliage within a few weeks.\u00a0 Your containers will be beautiful right into the cool Fall weather.<\/p>\n

In summary, create theme container combinations.\u00a0 They can be ones either for the kitchen, to give off wonderful fragrances and of course to attract hummingbirds and butterflies.<\/p>\n

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Theme Container Gardens for the Deck and Patio Creating your own container garden can be so much fun, especially if you think of using themes.\u00a0 Consider showing off your style with a small kitchen garden, or create an outdoor pot designed to attract hummingbirds or to welcome butterflies.\u00a0 Our beings are drawn to beautiful scents, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[32,56,164,50,54,163],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-container-garden-design","tag-container","tag-container-gardens","tag-deck","tag-gardens","tag-patio","tag-theme"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}