first and most important secret of container garden design is understood that the final resting place in a garden container itself will decide what kind of plants you can use. You can not just flip through the catalog flower, deciding what flowers to use, based solely on what they think will look nice. Having decided where the garden of the container will be located, you must choose your plants based on their preferences soil, light, moisture, and of course, the size of the container.

Having researched the needs of plants, and knew what kind would be suitable for the space, the next time it may decide to "palette" of colors. It's not only about how their colors to match the surrounding us. You can use the color of plants of other more subtle effects. For example, a container full of blue and mauve plants will look like withdraw from the viewer, giving the feeling away. Place this container on the far edge of the garden and the garden will seem to be higher. Again, if you put a container garden full of blue flowers on the end wall of a small city garden, it will make a garden more to do.

Bright red and orange flowers will have the opposite effect and seems to shorten the distance between the viewer and container gardening. If you place the flowers behind the red and blue flowers in the same container, they will make the contrast of red flowers stand out clearly. If you put a red flower behind the blue flowers that appear to clash horribly. Remember though, that there is no hard and fast rule in art and garden design, but you can not break the rules unless they do not know. Experiment for yourself, after all the rules to be broken!

So, to use those secrets for the container garden practically, you can fill the space, like a garden, with a garden full of red container plants for front garden and containers full of blue, mauve and lilac back. Seen from the front, they say framed windows, the area will occur over a large and bigger than it really is.

for general planting design classic container garden, you should make sure that the highest growth of plants placed toward the back. Further, it is necessary to choose a pair of identical or similar looking plants. One of these should be planted at either end of the line high, a little ahead of him. In front of a high order and the middle of the tank, you need to plant a special feature plant. This is the central feature of the container, one that gives a wow! factor.

both sides of this, you should place a couple of complementary plants as fillers. You must ensure that they do not detract from your face plant. Remember, if you have more than one feature plant, you are blessed, but also place them all together in one container, make more containers. In the end, ahead of all container plants in the garden, plant some little flowers that hang over a bit and flow over the edges of the vessel to be softened to the edges.

If you're not sure what color blooms and foliage to use, and then take a leaf from the book artist and learn about the "color wheel". Basically, you need to think long and in a way that colors are set. colors that are next to each other are called "free" paint. color on both sides of the debt is called "contrasting"colors. Use complimentary colors to your eyes gently flow through the container. Use contrasting colors to distract the eye and stop and stare.

There is no hard and fast rules in the design of the container. Try looking at what many of them as you can in books or flower shows. Decide which ones you think you are doing and those who do not. Take a camera with him to visit the gardens and make notes. Do not be afraid to talk to gardeners, if you can. Most only willing to share with you their secrets of container gardening and tell you about the flowers are used. Do not slavishly follow the second though. Use this information only as a starting point to learn how to express themselves, their ideas, their sense of beauty. In the end, you will develop your own style and vision.