Container Plans & Ideas
See our container garden plans and ways to use them in your landscape.
Secrets to Fantastic Containers
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Vertical Gardening
Grow up! Vertical gardening adds another dimension to your indoor or outdoor growing spaces.
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Fall Container-Garden Recipes
Add beauty to your fall garden or landscape with these container-garden creations.
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6 Strawberry Jar Gardens
Create a variety of themed container gardens using a single strawberry jar and a group of plants.
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Container Garden Plans
Even if you don't have a yard, you can plant a container garden. Or use these layouts to add beauty to a deck, balcony, or patio.
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Easy Tabletop Container Gardens
Liven up your outdoor living space with colorful container gardens. These creative ideas show you how.
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Pots of Edible Plants
Don't let lack of space cramp your landscaping style. Arrange a kitchen garden on your front porch.
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Bread Box Container Gardens
Create a charming container garden by planting in an antique bread box.
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Chair Planters
Make fun and interesting container gardens by turning an old chair into a planter.
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Clever Container Gardening Ideas
With a little imagination, you can fashion container gardens from unexpected sources.
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Container Garden Recipes for Shade
Enjoy a beautiful container garden -- even in shade. Check out this collection of recipes perfect for spots that don't see full sun.
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Containers from Repurposed Materials
Think outside the terra-cotta planter with these stylish alternatives.
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Cool-Season Containers
Fill your landscape with spring color with these fresh and easy container gardens.
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Create Bold, Dramatic Container Gardens
Use our plant-by-numbers guide to create bold, beautiful, and eye-catching container gardens.
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Clever Containers for Small Spaces
Try these fun and easy ideas for container gardens you'll love all season long.
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Create Stunning Hanging Baskets
Use these easy plant-by-numbers recipes to put together the most beautiful hanging baskets in your neighborhood.
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Decorate Your Containers
Transform inexpensive pots and statues into elegant garden accents. Outdoor crafts paints and our step-by-step instructions make it eas...
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Easy, All-Foliage Container Garden Recipes
Rely on plants with great-looking foliage to keep your container gardens looking great all season long. Get started with these easy rec...
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Fresh Ideas for Growing Vegetables in Containers
Enjoy tasty, homegrown vegetables on your doorstep, deck, patio, balcony, or garden with these herb and vegetable garden ideas for cont...
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Gorgeous Spring Container Gardens
Colorful container plantings celebrate the start of the gardening season.
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Great Container Gardens
If you want to create beautiful container gardens but don't know here to start, check out our slide show of 25 recipes you can follow f...
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Heat-Loving Container-Garden Plants
The dog days of summer can turn your gorgeous container gardens into a crispy mess. Try these plants that take the heat for color all s...
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Landscaping with Container Gardens
Container gardens add splashes of color and life to your yard or porch.
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Make a Succulent Wreath
Create your own living wreath of low-water succulents to decorate your outdoor spaces.
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Plant Up a Wheelbarrow Fairy Garden
Create a charming little landscape in a vintage wheelbarrow that you can move about to suit your mood or lifestyle.
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Recipes for Beautiful Container Gardens
Use this collection of recipes to create lush, beautiful container gardens to accent your landscape all season long.
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Simple Salad-Garden Containers
It's easy to grow your own salad. Check out our ideas for a container garden of salad greens.
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Succulent Container Garden Plans
Grow succulents in containers for easy-care color in any sunny, dry site.
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Tips for Using Planters in Your Yard
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Top Butterfly Container Garden Ideas
Bring butterflies to your garden -- even if you have just a deck or patio -- with these easy container recipes.
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Chippendale Window Box
Elegantly traditional.
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Easy, Beautiful Window Boxes for Sun
Create window boxes that add beauty to your home, garage, or shed with these easy plant-by-number ideas.
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Easy Recipes for Window Boxes in Shade
Don't let shade get you down. Create window boxes that beautify your landscape with our easy plant-by-number ideas.
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Herbal Window Box
Dress up your windows, indoors or outdoors, with a window box full of fragrant and flavorful herbs.
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One Window Box, Three Ways
One simple box, three great finishes.
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Three Winning Window Boxes
Variations on a pretty and practical design.
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Window Box and Planter
Two basic projects for budding carpenters.
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Window Box Planter
Decorative brackets hold these in place.
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Awning-Striped Painted Flowerpots
Add a cheerful face to plain terra-cotta flowerpots by dressing them in bold stripes.
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Build a Stone-Look Trough
Step-by-step instructions for making a hypertufa container.
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Classic Finish Painted Pot
Use this simple technique to give new plant containers the look of a fine, aged metal urn.
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Deck Rail Planter
Make your deck more colorful with this planter-topped railing.
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Four-Foot Planter
This large planter is perfect for a patio or deck.
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Garden Art Painted Pot
Leaves make striking designs for these painted pots.
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Make a Miniature Garden
The secret to making a beautiful and satisfying garden in minutes is simple: Think small.
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Hypertufa Trough
A pot molded from a plastic dishpan.
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Mosaic-Look Flowerpots
Create one-of-a-kind garden accents by covering flowerpots with a mosaic of broken ceramic pieces.
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Pretty Basil Pots
Give these stunning pots with plants as gifts.
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Turn Your Birdhouse into a Planter
Add instant charm to the garden with this creative container garden for the birds.
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Two-Pot Topiary
There's as much flower arranging as down-in-the-dirt gardening in this unusual system.
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Vine Trellis in a Pot
Coat hangers anchor a tomato cage.
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