Euro Mode Container Gardening
In Switzerland, the province is trending toward to a greater extent than high ascent living in addition to equally a final result to a greater extent than patio/balcony gardening. So says Erwin Meier-Honegger inwards the plant nursery manufacture magazine "Green Profit".
Meier-Honegger said that large containers for balconies are designed non entirely to concur enough of flowers, herbs or vegetables but to works life privacy barriers for residents. He too cited their lower maintenance when compared alongside having several smaller containers merely about - expert point!
He says terra cotta pots are dead in addition to colorful planters are in, though nigh of his customers at his garden center, Ernst Meier Garden Center, tend to purchase containers inwards pigeon in addition to anthracite colors.
For indoors, Meier-Honegger's customers are to a greater extent than interested inwards the color in addition to blueprint of the planter than the plants within. Customers desire style, something particular inwards the planter inwards which whatever quondam works life volition do.
And, beloved to my heart, his savvy shoppers are buying insect hotels for beneficial insects, and, paying $2,000 for the luxury models. Concern for beneficial insects is a worldwide number amid thinking gardeners.
In the US, Frank Boendermaker reports that high-end, lightweight Capi Lux work of containers is selling good both hither in addition to inwards Europe. I saw them inwards an OKC plant nursery a yoke of weeks ago.
The shapes in addition to colors are sophisticated - black, grey, dove, white. They are all made of lightweight fiberglass, magnesium or a combination.
Again, terra cotta is over.
Pastel colors are in.
Look for Capi planters inwards Costco this spring.
Scheurich's Keith Turbett too says that muted colors are in. His choice includes beige, copper in addition to silvery colors alongside textured, matte in addition to glossy surfaces volition live popular.
Plastic containers choke along to live the favorites because the designs in addition to colors are improving from the days of dark entirely or merely greenish in addition to dark options. Plus, gardeners prefer their lightness - ease of carry dwelling identify in addition to displace merely about the patio.
So, the floor from Europe is out alongside terra cotta in addition to inwards alongside plastic, fiberglass in addition to magnesium.
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| Dove color planter from Pure Modern |
He says terra cotta pots are dead in addition to colorful planters are in, though nigh of his customers at his garden center, Ernst Meier Garden Center, tend to purchase containers inwards pigeon in addition to anthracite colors.
For indoors, Meier-Honegger's customers are to a greater extent than interested inwards the color in addition to blueprint of the planter than the plants within. Customers desire style, something particular inwards the planter inwards which whatever quondam works life volition do.
And, beloved to my heart, his savvy shoppers are buying insect hotels for beneficial insects, and, paying $2,000 for the luxury models. Concern for beneficial insects is a worldwide number amid thinking gardeners.
In the US, Frank Boendermaker reports that high-end, lightweight Capi Lux work of containers is selling good both hither in addition to inwards Europe. I saw them inwards an OKC plant nursery a yoke of weeks ago.
The shapes in addition to colors are sophisticated - black, grey, dove, white. They are all made of lightweight fiberglass, magnesium or a combination.
Again, terra cotta is over.
Pastel colors are in.
Look for Capi planters inwards Costco this spring.
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| Scheurich Wave Globe line |
Scheurich's Keith Turbett too says that muted colors are in. His choice includes beige, copper in addition to silvery colors alongside textured, matte in addition to glossy surfaces volition live popular.
Plastic containers choke along to live the favorites because the designs in addition to colors are improving from the days of dark entirely or merely greenish in addition to dark options. Plus, gardeners prefer their lightness - ease of carry dwelling identify in addition to displace merely about the patio.
So, the floor from Europe is out alongside terra cotta in addition to inwards alongside plastic, fiberglass in addition to magnesium.