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.
- We do: select containers
you will own and plants that will thrive in your conditions four
to six times a year.
- We don't: water for you. Clients who do this minimal upkeep are richly rewarded with compliments from the public.
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.
Call now or email us to schedule an appointment with a Container Garden Designer
The Gentle Gardener: Green Design.
