Planter Benches

Top 5 Reasons Your Landscape Needs Planter Benches

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When a bench and a planter come together as one, a really awesome landscape feature comes to life. A planter bench can be purchased, built from scratch, or put together using potted plants and a store-bought bench. When it comes to planter benches your options are practically endless, just like the benefits that come with. Your planter bench will offer …

Choosing The Right Planter Soil

Choosing The Right Planter Soil

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Without soil your plants won’t survive. Just like sun and water, your plants also need a nice meaty soil to sink their roots into. When planting potted plants you are solely responsible for creating just the right environment. After all, the roots of a plant can’t reach outside of the planter, meaning they have to find everything they need right …

Planter Soil

Choosing The Right Planter Soil

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Without soil your plants won’t survive. Just like sun and water, your plants also need a nice meaty soil to sink their roots into. When planting potted plants you are solely responsible for creating just the right environment. After all, the roots of a plant can’t reach outside of the planter, meaning they have to find everything they need right …

How To Create Contemporary Landscapes That Work

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How To Create Contemporary Landscapes That Work As contemporary design becomes more and more popular, it is showing up in a lot of landscapes. For the last 10 years contemporary landscaping has been on the rise in the UK, and has now made its way to the US. Clean lines outlined by ‘hard’ materials, like stone or wood, define contemporary …

Potted Plants

8 Tips How To Balance & Properly Arrange Your Potted Plants

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8 Tips How To Balance & Properly Arrange Your Potted Plants There are no rules set in stone when it comes to designing good-looking landscaping with potted plants. The most amazing outdoors spaces are created using imagination, not just following a set of rules. It’s what’s different that captures attention, not what looks the same as everything else. That doesn’t …

How To Pick High Quality Planters For Successful Container Gardening

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How To Pick High Quality Planters For Successful Container Gardening When you imagine the perfect landscaping space, you likely don’t imagine cheap looking planters that are dented in and heavily weathered. But buyer beware, many of the container planters on the market will break down within only one year. For instance, the fluctuation from cold to hot might be too …

Perfect Potted Plants For The Patio

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Create The Perfect Potted Plants For The Patio Looking to spruce up your outdoor patio? Patio planters might be the winning answer. The first things you might think about adding to redecorate your patio are chairs, tables, and perhaps a swing of some sort. Furniture is always nice, but the greatest way to add beauty and design to your patio …

Common Planting Mistakes

7 Common Planting Mistakes That You Don’t Have To Make

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Potted plants are awesome and offer so many benefits to your landscaping, inside and out. The one thing to thing to remember, the rules for container planters are different than the rules regarding plants that live in the ground. You must respect and adhere to these differences in order to create a successful container garden. Every gardener makes common planting …

Transplanting Potted Plants

5 Tips On Transplanting Potted Plants Successfully

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Transplanting potted plants simply means to move a plant from one container to another location. There are a number of reasons why you might need to transplant your potted plants. Perhaps your plant has grown and it needs a larger space to continue developing properly. If you purchase plants at a nursery, you will have to transplant them out of …

Self-watering Planters

Self-Watering Planters: Save Time, Money and Hassle

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How would you like it if you could only have water when someone offered it to you? Just like people, plants need water to thrive. Self-watering planters allow potted plants to have constant access to water without the risk of root rot. Self-watering planters are made with a built-in liner, which collects water and grants a 24/7 oasis for your …