Nasturtiums, Strawberries, Petunias, Licorice, edible flowers and even some vegetables. So much can be grown in pots and containers! Gardening with containers is a brilliant alternative for those who love gardening but do not have the space to create one. You could plant small flower plants.Also, vegetables like sweet potatoes, tomatoes and more. The best part about them, unlike the in-ground ones, is that being comparatively smaller, they are easy to carry around... an option that suits those of us who live in apartment complexes and have to change from one apartment to the other. There are many plants which you could plant year-round. You could even design your own beautiful, small kitchen garden. You could use simple home-made mulch and loam for your plants. Try using boxes and colourful hanging pots with attractive looking strings. Try and pick the right kind of plants. The very same plants planted in a way without innovation and artistic taste look so dull. The charm is gone from your garden. So, make your garden look aesthetic, smart and fabulous by designing it with panache. That will enhance the look of your patio or porch. You could try some elegant looking raised beds with covers or you could use the versatile Hypertufa to tastefully design your garden.

Your garden could look bright or dull. The trick is in your choice! Gardening with containers is so much more fun. Choose your containers and their shapes according to the types of plants you wish to plant. Most of the domestic plants fall under three categories, depending on the shape in which they grow. They grow vertically or horizontally or they cascade. Combining all the three gives a rich, complete and wholesome look. If you are a person with a taste for the bold antique, you can try planting just one thick clump of bamboo in a container. Plant some beautiful Bonsai (and prune it well) or false cypress on either sides of the bamboo. You can also experiment flanking it with feather reed grass.

If you are planning a soft look for your flower garden, you may experiment a combination of Salvia, Verbena and Wishbone flower. You may want to flank them with small shrubs or large perennials. Plants like the golden sword combine with almost anything. Try a combination of golden sword with bergenia or with redtwig dogwoods. You may also like the idea of dividing your garden into smaller sections. You could plant varieties of cactus in one, boxwoods in the other, in the third, a combination of ornamental year-round plants with flowers and vegetables in the fourth.

If you live in dry areas, you may try combinations like the sempervivum or the agave shawii or the hibiscus in different pots surrounding the upright equisetum fluviatile in a medium-sized pot in the center. There are no thumb rules in this. You can master the art of gardening with containers through practice and experimenting. Have fun and enjoy growing with your garden.