This video is all about thinking how to create a beautiful container garden on porches, patios and decks with potted plants that are easy to care for and don’t require babysitting with a water hose!
Before getting into the bulk of things, we show you what our deck and container garden used to look like prior to the transformation. Our old growing scheme was beautiful, but required way too much work and time consuming effort to keep everything looking good.
In this video I talk about strategies for picking the right plants, how to protect your deck, and thoughts about how to choose the best number of plants that won’t be overly time consuming for you. I’ve selected some very drought tolerant plants such as Agapanthus, Amaryllis, Plumeria, Adenium, Epiphyllum and Lantana. I’ve also employed repetition to create a more harmonized look and ensured there is plenty of negative space to keep things looking well spaced. #pottedplants #containergardening #gardening
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0:10 Our Deck Before
2:20 Container Garden Tips
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19 Comments
i’m 72 years old and I’ve been watching you and your family on QVC for years, it’s so good to see you with your wife. I wish you’d make more videos of the two of you together. Keep with your great videos they’re so informative.
Such a relaxing place to take in all the natural beauty around you.
Blessings Always
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Great video and beautiful looking containers, they are the bees knees. We have a small front garden with four flowerbeds, fifty two pots of perennials and six pots of annuals on the front windowsills. My wife has no interest in gardening and tells me the garden looks like a mini garden centre. It takes nine watering cans to water the pots and seventeen watering cans to water the beds. Its been a rainy summer in Ireland and last Saturday was the first time I watered the flowerbeds this year, I have been watering the pots twice a week since the start of May. I have a lot of drought tolerant plants in the flowerbeds and the pots.
I’m surprised that you didn’t bring out a monstera out on the deck. That would be impactful. 😊
I’d go for more but plants. I like the jungly look.
Love the wire railing. What is the decking material, wood or poly? I have “tried” to reduce the amount of plants I have on the deck this year. It didn’t work.😂
I am so glad that we finally got to see your wife. It is so wonderful to see the both of you together. Hopefully we get to see more of your wife with you. I love your new deck and all your beautiful plants. Happy Gardening.
It looks beautiful!! You two did a wonderful job, plus the plants are perfect!
You have some powerful yoga poses!!
All around great video ❤
Could you please do a yoga video?
Love it good choice!!!
Your right lots of little pots scattered about really do clutter things up but as you know anyone who gardens it's hard to not clutter, it's just one more plant right? Good to see your better half on the videos.
Your new deck is very nice, and the view is beautiful. It was also nice that you introduced us to your wife, Samantha.
Hi Devin and Samantha 🌺 . You arranged your balcony beautifully with these beautiful plants also I have 2 stephanotis and 2 jasmine sambac also one jasmine azoricum also gardenia also clematis also geraniums along the edge of the balcony and other plants . Have agreat day .🌿🌻
Beautiful deck and I love the railing well cords love how that looks and how you can see out to the yard
Stephanotis? Could you show what it is? Some of us only know plants by common names, thanks. Video ideas– dwarf container trees, zone 6-7 fruit trees/shrubs, review of hoses/watering systems for outdoor container plants. Love your channel. I know lots about veg gardening but little about decorative plants, need to learn more!
You two are such a cute couple.
the cabling looks great!
I can live with a three trips to the spigot rule … (a 20 gallon jug can't be that hard to find!)
your purple clematis is my favorite – looks perfect there even if it works against the see-through goal slightly – it's worth it
Your wife is the absolute cutest! Love her