View full sizeA simple planting of red geraniums can perk up a place.
BOX IT UP: When you have no ground at all, look to window boxes for colorful plantings.
“If you have room for a window box, you have room for a garden,” writes Dean Fosdick of the Associated Press. “Window boxes are ideal for small, shallow-rooted plants like radishes, lettuce, marigolds, impatiens, pansies, begonias, parsley, basil, sage and thyme.”
NOT JUST CACTI: The tendency is to think of low-water landscapes as gravely beds of cacti and other prickly plants. Not so.
According to Mother Nature Network: “Xeriscape gardens are not just for desert or high-country landscapes. Every climate and gardening zone has its native plants, which can be planted using the seven principles of xeriscape gardening.”
TINY BOOK ON TINY GARDENING: Miniature gardens just get more and more popular. A new book got Amy Azzanito excited.
On DesignSponge.com: “The tininess of this book appealed to my shaky gardening confidence. That, and the fact that everything is in vintage containers. I might be able to grow anything, but I can hunt down a vintage container like nobody’s business. Stylist and design Emma Hardy created a book, ‘Teeny Tiny Gardening,’ perfect for the novice gardener.”
— Kym Pokorny
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