Container Gardens: Creative Ways to Bring Color to Your Home

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Hyacinths in a Container

Which is the best thing to beat the summer heat? Obviously, WATER! Creating a water garden is a cool way to keep the heat away. Use water plants like hyacinths for this purpose because they do not need soil to sustain and grow up. All they need for their nutrients are water and sunlight. The great thing is you do not need a lily pond for this unique garden. You just need containers, especially glass containers will look nice, and a space that gets sunlight. So, create your mini water garden right now and enjoy the blooms of the aquatic plants.

Hanging Ferns

Staghorn ferns are a popular choice for wall garden. However, growing them on the walls, especially inside a house, will be difficult and challenging. An easy solution is to use hanging alternatives. Use a terra-cotta pot with a wire basket fittingly pushed down inside it.

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Now, place a layer of potting moss on the wire basket and put the Staghorn ferns with the plastic pot they come on that layer. Conceal the plastic pot and cover the soil by adding more potting moss. Now, hang it from a window or any space where the ceiling is low.

Mood-Changing Small Potted Plants

A small pot filled with lush flower plants can easily fit into your bedside table, working desk, or even a corner of your small reading nook. Blue, red, and orange tropical flowers framed by green plants in a nice pot can instantly change the mood of a room. You can also create a rich and versatile palette in any small corner of your home by mixing different types of plants. The combination of three plants including moneywort, coleus, and fuchsia will be enough to create a tiny oasis in your home office or reading nook.

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Double the Freshness with Double Potted Plants

Two potted containers on a small bench can easily grace the décor of your kitchen or living room. Two small old buckets or enamel milk pails filled with flower plants or ferns and placed on an old-fashioned or industrial bench will bring a rustic charm along with freshness to your interior. Pothos vine, moon valley pilea, or sword ferns will be excellent choice for this container gardening. Put the plants on a plastic pot and then, place it inside the bucket or pail. Take the plastic pot out to water.

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These unique container gardens will make your home a colorful spring garden.

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Now that spring is here, there are still several areas of the world that have snow!! No worries, spring will be coming to your part of the world in no time, but that doesn’t mean you can’t use spring to inspire your interiors. Whether you add color to your walls, install new blinds and window treatments, or make an indoor garden, spring can be here instantly! Here are a few tips to bring spring to your interiors, even though the outside may still feel cold.

How to Bring Spring Inside your Home this Season

Bring color and warmth into your interiors:

Add colorful yellows, blues, greens, and spring colors to your interiors for a warmth that can be seen and felt. Try painting an accent wall or transform your bedroom, kitchen or living room walls. Bathrooms are ideal for quick color changes with bath linen, towels, area rugs and more. Consider changing window treatments to suit the weather too. Often times heavy winter curtains were perfect for colder weather but now blinds, sheers, or even lighter weight fabrics are ideal. Window treatment brands, such as ashanging.com have a great ideas for mounting artwork, drapery, and more, as do your local home improvement store. Ask an associate for the right window treatments for your geographic location to help!

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Create your own indoor garden:

Replicating Mother Nature’s magic indoors is harder than most people think. However, the end results are usually worth the effort. Many homeowners grow indoor plants for spring décor. Others do so to save space and protect susceptible plants. Whether you’re growing an indoor garden for fun or out of necessity, follow these tips for success.

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Choose the Gardening Style

Indoor gardening is divided into two styles: hydroponic gardening and container gardening. A hydroponic garden uses fertilized water and a non-soil starter. It is suitable for those looking to grow many plants in a small area or those growing plants that are highly susceptible to pests and diseases. Container gardening on the other hand refers to growing plants in containers using traditional gardening soil. It is a great option for those who want to eventually transplant their gardens outdoors.

Select the Right Space

It is important to choose the right space for your indoor garden. Pick an area with a window and sunlight, possibly an east or west-facing window. Avoid areas near vents or fans as these can dry out the plants or damage them. Also avoid rooms with cold temperatures like garages or attics as they can kill or decrease the growth of your plants.

Control the Environment

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You can control the environment of an indoor garden for lovely spring decor. While this can be tasking, it significantly increases your garden’s success when done properly. There are 3 vital things you must control for a beautiful indoor garden:

• Soil condition
• Air temperature
• Water frequency

These are usually determined by the system of gardening you use and the specific plants you grow. However, there are some helpful tools you can use to easily control the environment.

Heat Soil Mats

These are electric mats that heat pots from the bottom and regulate the temperature of the soil. They create the right environment for plants to thrive (75-85ᵒ Fahrenheit).

A Drip System

It can be easy to forget watering your plants. Instead of setting daily reminders, get a drip system. The device has a timer and small tubes that supply water to each plant.

Lighting

Windows let in a little light which may not be sufficient for your indoor plants. Fluorescent lights are a good option for artificial lighting. They are inexpensive and produce great results. You can also buy a heat-lamp for your indoor garden.

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