Gardening:
Outdoor: Potted Herbs
Learn how to grow selected
herbs in outdoor pots.
There
are several reasons to consider growing
selected herbs in outdoor pots even
when you have a garden ground available.
Pots or enclosed raised beds are especially
suitable. To contain herbs that spread,
such as mint and sorrel. Container
planting also dramatizes singularly
attractive specimen plants, like Spanish
lavender with its twisting foliage
and spiked purple flower, or lemon
verbena, noteworthy for its graceful
arching branches as well as its seductive
sent.
Herbs
with similar growing requirements
can be planted together in the same
pot or planted in several pots and
kept in the same location to create
planting themes also obviously; herbs
that can’t survive the winter
in the ground can be planed in pots
that can be moved in and out of the
weather.
Plants
of unusual basil varieties grouped
together make a subtle study in variations
of leaf shape, color, size and scent,
yet all are recognizable as basil.
In a slightly more complex planting
the herbs that grow wild in the Mediterranean
basin are grown together in the same
container—rosemary, thyme, oregano,
and sage. Here the growth habits,
leaf shapes and sizes, scents and
colors of the different herbs vary
tremendously, but all combined to
make a harmonious whole reminiscent
of herbs native habits.
For
the specimen and theme plantings,
beautiful and intriguing containers
are called for. To our thinking, few
containers complete with the large
classic terra-cotta garden jars.
Having
potted herbs outside in addition to
your garden plantings enriches the
landscape and offers you the opportunity
to grow herbs that are too invasive
for the garden or too delicate to
survive outside during the winter.
See
our Indoor
Herb Gardening Tips
More
Potted Herbs information coming soon...
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