CONTAINER GARDENS
FOR YOUR BUILDING, BUSINESS, OR HOME

Let the skilled designers at The Gentle Gardener create an inviting entryway for your business that welcomes your customers. Container gardens are the perfect accessory for outside and inside your shop, restaurant, office or showroom. As accessories, they need to be changed and freshened up regularly to stay interesting and to prosper. Our experts will pick the right plants for changing light and weather patterns, seasonal color, and ease of maintenance.

Explains The Gentle Gardener’s Virginia Rockwell, who studied at the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew in London and learned what makes English window boxes, hayrack gardens, and other container plantings so special: "Like a scarf or jewelry, container plantings must be chosen carefully and changed frequently. Great container gardens are carefully composed for the location, to consider reflective and radiant heat off the building and pavement, steps or terrace, the sun vs. shade exposure, and available rainfall. Care must be taken to design for maximum bloom and performance at each time of year.”

Using tender perennials and annuals chosen for their foliage, color, and shape as well as long-blooming habits, we create unique compositions suited to your site. Containers that will endure in your conditions are carefully chosen. Plants are changed and freshened 4 to 6 times a year. The design can be tailored to your business calendar to accommodate special events.

We take into consideration your particular needs including hours of direct sunlight per day, reflective and radiant heat from buildings and pavements, awnings that don’t allow rainfall, building managements that don’t allow water on the ground, anchoring to prevent theft, etc.

The Gentle Gardener decorates businesses and homes for holidays and events. We have prepared container gardens for houses and gardens on the Historic Garden Week tour, including Ionia Farm and Keswick Estate. Let us take care of your smart and stylish Christmas, Historic Garden Week, party, or other displays.

We also offer Container Garden Clinics (see left) for do-it-yourselfers. Call the store for a current calendar or to enroll.

"The Melting Pot" - our garden containers from around the world will help you compose beautifully.

Call now or email us to schedule an appointment with a Container Garden Designer

 

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