Pot Luck

[dropcap style=”square”]D[/dropcap]ecorative pots and urns can act as focal points or statements in the home or garden and can reflect your personality, tastes and favourite colours!

The benefits of container gardening:

Grow colour, incredible edibles and fragrant plants in containers. If you’re not convinced about growing in pots and containers, here’s a list of reasons why you should get started right now no matter where you live:

• Versatile: Container gardens allow you to grow on a balcony, patio, courtyard, indoors on windowsills or rooms with adequate light, the deck of a boat, rooftop or high-rise building.
• More variety: You can grow plants that may not be suitable to grow in your garden soil and grow plants next to each other even though they may have different soil needs.
• Accessibility: Growing plants in containers makes gardening accessible to almost anyone including children, those with limited mobility and the elderly.
• No weeding: Due to the small surface area, it’s unlikely weed seeds will find their way into pots. No heavy garden tools and equipment: Saves your back and money with less maintenance.
• Mobility: Plants in pots can easily be moved to suit your needs or to a more suitable sunny or shady location during the day.
• Change your look: Easily vary your colour scheme. As each plant finishes flowering or fruiting, it can be replaced with another.
• Portable meals on wheels: Suitable for renters, edible gardens in pots can move house with you.

Read more in the August issue…