by Ilona | Autumn, Containers
Fall for Creative Containers Bring beautiful container creations to the end of the season, don’t give up after summer! Autumn blooming flowers are sturdy enough to take some cold temperatures, and they can last longer in the season than you might expect.... 
by Ilona Erwin | Containers, Featured Articles, Garden Design Ideas, Summer
Sometimes Less Really IS More While a container recipe with a range of plant material can be amazingly beautiful, there are times we simply want the flower statement to be powerful and simple. This can give a stunning effect. Especially true when planters are viewed... 
by Ilona Erwin | Containers, Flowering bulbs, Garden Design Ideas
View the video for: Pretty effects for earliest container plantings: spring bulbs. One thing I would add to the information is that in Ohio it would be important to store the container in a frost free area. Somewhere the bulbs would get chilled, but not frozen... 
by Ilona | Containers, Landscape Design Know-How
A Moveable Feast Of Summer Color Flowering containers are like a feast of color, a concentrated burst of plants. They draw the eye and give an appetizing presentation of foliage and blooms to delight the viewer. Unless the flowering containers are so large and... 
by Ilona Erwin | Containers, Garden annuals, Summer
Using My Favorite Flowers For Container Gardening [Part One] [Part Two] Continuing to feature some of the beautiful ways that annuals can brighten up a garden. By joining the container recipes and annual plant highlights in the post, this gives ideas you can use in... 
by Ilona Erwin | Containers, Featured Articles, Garden annuals, Summer
I love annuals! So much so, that it is a daunting task to try to profile all my favorites. As I was planting up my containers, it occurred to me that the ones I was combining in my pots and baskets would be an ideal way to share some of these ideas for containers with...
