Container Gardening Know How – How to Add Value and Sizzle to Your Home in 5 Easy Steps
Container gardening is a great hobby to sink your teeth into. Not only can you express your green thumb and your love of nature, it is also a great way to relax and create a stimulating mood in the home.
But did you know that container gardening can also be a tool with which you can add $ $ to the value of your home, create a brand new interior style and theme, and a way to re-fresh your home.
My top 5 tips to using container plants, flowers, shrubs and herbs to do all the above with minimum skills, stress and money:
1. Introduce a Colors through a variety of containers and container plants and flowers
Did you know that introducing color is one of the fastest ways to change your mood?
Colors have an amazing influence on the way we feel. Test this out for your self by wearing clothes of different colors – from bright to dark, and see how you feel. To inject some energy and passion into your life and home use reds and oranges, to stimulate emotional and intellectual creativity and happiness use yellows, to create a feeling of calm and peace use greens and blues, to encourage spiritual development use purples.
Use specific containers or container plants or flowers reflecting the color which you want to add to your home and life. Grow some vibrant red container roses, some yellow jasmine, green leafy container ferns or palms.
2. If you have a problem area or awkward spot or stain which you would like to hide, use container plants and flowers, ferns, palms to distract the eye.
Use a medium to large stylish container with tall plants such as palms, to draw the eye away and up.
If you have an dull and lifeless piece of furniture such as an old table, why not use a few container plants to breathe some interest and life into it. If you have a cold and overbearing bit of furniture such as wardrobe use color container flowers such as .. to soften the look.
3. Large multi-purpose rooms, such as a living room, can become a big mess comprising: kids play area, TV room, and office all in one.
Use large and tall container plants such as broad leafy ferns and tall elegant plans (..) to act as screens and partitions. This has the effect of diving the room into function areas, and making the space feel more organized.
4. Create contrast and texture with your container gardening plants and flowers. Contrast gives a burst of creativity and introduces a new perspective into the room.
Use containers made of different materials such as terracotta, ceramic, wood to create the desired feel. I recommend using the same or similar materials, to prevent a mismatched feel, but vary the plants used, their heights, and the positioning of the containers.
Try and use odd numbers in your collection as they are visually more interesting.
5. Increase or Decrease the Size of a Room with Container Gardening Scale
Scale down the size of your containers and container plants when in a small room / space to create the illusion of more space, and on the flip side use larger plants and containers in large rooms / space to fill the space more fully.
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