Containers by Design 🌿 Big Living in My Small Garden

Containers are good multi-taskers in my small garden. They function as design objects, as the permanent home for plants that can't go in the ground, and as a practical solution for plants that I love but don't trust to plant in the ground — due to their naughty behavior. This video is about containers that stay. They are placed with intention, chosen for their shape and color as much as for what grows in them, and treated as part of the garden's composition rather than an afterthought. For more on containers as part of my small garden design strategy, also watch Auditioning Plants in Containers →    • Big Living in My Small Garden 🌿 Auditionin...   In this video: 🪴 The blue container thread in the back garden — color connections, pivot points, and the hierarchy of size and shape 🪴 Containers as permanent homes: protecting Japanese maples and Flamethrower cercis from Verticillium wilt, and the container as the permanent element — the plant is what changes 🪴 Containment — Alstroemeria and culinary mint 🪴 One plant, one pot — and why fewer, larger containers make for easier maintenance and happier plants 🪴 Black plastic nursery pots (often called Anderson pots) — the swappable mechanism inside the ceramic 🪴 Winter vulnerability, hardiness zones, and what I actually do to protect my containers 🪴 Urns as sculptural elements — all-season presence, no plant required ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 MORE VIDEOS IN THIS SERIES 🌿 Turning Shrubs Into Trees →    • Big Living in My Small Garden 🌿 Turning Sh...   🌿 Auditioning Plants in Containers →    • Big Living in My Small Garden 🌿 Auditionin...   🌿 Tall and Narrow →    • Big Living in My Small Garden 🌿 Tall and N...   ▶️ Watch the full series →    • Big Living in My Small Garden 🌿   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📖 IDEAS I REFER TO REGULARLY These overarching ideas that I refer to regularly live on my website: 🔗 Forever vs. For Now → https://www.egardengo.com/post/garden... 🔗 Assess Adjust Repeat → https://www.egardengo.com/post/assess... 🔗 Container design → https://www.egardengo.com/post/how-to... 🔗 Winter containers → https://www.egardengo.com/post/the-be... 🔗 Color connections in the garden →    • Planting Design Tips — Making Color Connec...   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌱 Find plants and combination ideas at eGardenGo → https://www.egardengo.com/explore-pla... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Arctostaphylos #Manzanita #Phormium #NewZealandFlax #Cordyline #RedBanana #ContainerGardening #SmallGardenDesign #eGardenGo #BigLivingInMySmallGarden ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TABLE OF CONTENTS 0:00 A forever plant in a forever pot 0:53 The blue container thread 1:33 Burgundy Jewel — the central pivot 2:21 The tall narrow container 3:03 The table bowl — rowdy chorus 4:30 Japanese maple and the spiller 5:17 Canopy corner and drama queen 6:23 Containers as color stories 6:45 Urns as sculptural elements 7:17 Containers as investment 7:51 One plant, one pot 8:34 Groups of containers as scenes 9:16 Why plants live in containers permanently 9:51 Flamethrower cercis 10:10 Containment — Alstroemeria and mint 11:06 Black plastic pots — the mechanism 11:33 Winter vulnerability 11:55 Winter protection — what I actually do 12:42 Phormiums and Cordyline 13:47 Back where we started 14:48 One garden, one composition