Flower Arrangements With Container Gardening

When a flower arrangement is completed by a florist,there is always the creative placement of taller blooms in your arrangement in one area while shorter blooms are placed elsewhere. This gives your bouquet that pleasing eye look and comfortable feeling. I concluded you could perform the same creative work with your container gardening flowers.

Why use just one size pot? Why not entertain the idea of using variable size pots in your flower containers. This will give your guests or friends a tremendous visual impact. The use of props hanging around your garage or garden will increase the visual concept of your container. I took the following steps in my garden by placing a tall container on a stump with a smaller container by its side and with the use of an old hand water pump placed behind the two giving a depth to the arrangements. I also placed a container or pot in front of the stump mixed with other flowers already planted in this garden. This resulted in a real visual and beautiful arrangement.

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The use of old upturned empty pots,stacks of tiles or bricks or even a low table or old chair with other pots grouped around it makes quite an impression. While traveling around my area or other parts of the country,I found the placement of pots of flowers on the front stairway to be a good arrangement.

Flower Arrangements With Container Gardening

The use of intensely colorful flowers on each edge of the stairway to the door was quite a site indeed. A ladder or ladders can also be used to form a multi level plant stand.

A strawberry pot with small holes evenly distributed over the pot can make a dramatic container gardening flower visual.. The best looking selection in this situation is the use of ornamental grasses to make your point. I would start with a fountain grass in the top and follow it up with other grasses such as Blaze Little Bluestem Grass and Sweet Alyssum in the other openings of the strawberry or pocket pot. You could even plant berries for contrast.

I would make an effort to find a cup shape pocket pot rather than those with slits. It is much easier to deal with the cup shaped pocket as far as soil placement and moisture content than the slits. Its best to start the soil fill from the bottom and work up to the first tier pocket holes and then add the plants. It is easy to work with and provides an interesting view over regular container gardening. There is much more information on container gardening and other garden information at my web site http://www.gardenersgardening.com

Flower Arrangements With Container Gardening

This gardener has been gardening for over twenty years and has decided to use his empirical data as well as researched information to assist beginners as well as old timers in their garden pursuits. My web site can be found at http://www.gardenersgardening.com

Daffodil Flower Information and Facts

The daffodil is also known as Jonquil, Narcissus, Paperwhite and the 'Poet's Hower'. The name of the species is Narcissus, every daffodil is a narcissus but not all narcissi (plural of narcissus) are daffodils. Narcissus is the botanical name for the genus. The name 'daffodil' is generally used for single, trumpet-shaped flowers.

The name 'Narcissus' comes from the Greek mythology. A nymph, fell in love with the Greek youth Narcissus who loved only himself and therefore rejected her. She died of a broken heart. Narcissus liked to see his reflection in a pool of water, stood there and admiring his beauty. The gods were then angry with him and changed Narcissus into a flower and named after him - the Narcissus flower.

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The flower has six petals arranged in a star shape with a central trumpet facing out. Stems of single flowers are 30 - 50 cm (12 - 20 inches) long, multi-flowered stems are normally shorter. They vary in size and color depending on the variety. There are over 25,000 varieties of narcissus in shades of yellow, white, peachy pink, orange, and bicolor. Many daffodil flowers are fragrant.

Daffodil Flower Information and Facts

Daffodil was cultivated in Roman times, they brought daffodil bulbs to Britain. Daffodils are native to south western Europe and have been used medicinally for centuries. In Europe narcissi are grown commercially in the Channel Islands, Great Britain, Isles of Scilly and Holland.

It is important to note that the bulb of daffodil is toxic and can be very dangerous especially when eaten. Many florists get daffodil itch: dryness, scaliness and fissures on the hands and thickness under the nails due to its calcium oxalate in the sap. In may 2009, it was reported that during a cooking class at school, a number of students in England fell ill after mistaking a bulb of daffodil for an onion and adding it to soup. The kids were then taken to hospital as a precautionary measure, and were soon allowed to return home.

Daffodil Flower Information and Facts

Daffodil or narcissus is regarded as the March birth flower and aquamarine is the March birthstone for those born in the month of March.