Garden Variety: Fall container garden ideas - Mid-Atlantic gardening: Tips and pictures on flowers, vegetables, public gardens, composting and farmers’ markets

The Baltimore Sun > Life > Home & Garden > Garden Variety

« Water feature made simple | Main | The garden of philosophical thought »

September 29, 2010

Fall container garden ideas

Photo credit: Baltimore Sun/Lloyd Fox

Fall.

Another season, another opportunity to plant containers - badly.

If you are like me, your containers are so poorly "composed" that you resort to one plant/one container and tell people that you like to emphasize "simplicity" in your designs. Mums and pansies. That's all there is, right?

To the rescue is my friend Kerry Michaels, who blogs on container gardening for About.com, but has also written a guest post for The Soil Sisters on fall container combinations. As always, her ideas are different and striking.

Take a read. The pictures are terrific!

Posted by Susan Reimer at 7:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)
Categories: Container gardening

Comments

Yes, great pics and also a great website. I'm inspired. Thanks!

I am too, Ruth. But, I swear, composition is my biggest weakness. As a gardener, and in general! -- Susan

Posted by: ruth | September 29, 2010 8:08 AM

Hi, Susan! Thank you so much for the link love to The Soil Sisters! Isn't Kerry talented? We feel very fortunate that she shared her talents with us!

Posted by: Kylee | September 29, 2010 10:57 AM

Great Photo and website! I am growing my fist Tickle Me Plant in a container garden.
The kids are having so much fun now that the leaves close up like a fan when Tickled.

Posted by: Tami | September 29, 2010 11:27 AM

Lovely Mums. Thanks for the link. I'm a big garden fan.

Posted by: mysisterdalesgarden | September 29, 2010 12:51 PM

Post a comment

Name:

Email Address:

URL:

Remember personal info?

Comments: (you may use HTML tags for style)

Verification (needed to reduce spam):

About Susan Reimer

Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.

Follow @susanreimer on Twitter