The Best Plants To Pot!

Whether you live in an apartment with only a small deck or you want to add color to the patio of a larger home, growing and maintaining plants in pots offers a way to brighten your immediate outdoor surroundings. And growing flowers, vegetables, herbs or other plants in containers is so simple that even the most novice of gardeners may do it. For experts, the possibilities are endless when it comes to design and the types of plants you may grow in pots.

"This is something everyone can do," said Felix Cutrone, sales manager at Hicks Nurseries of Long Island, New York's oldest garden nursery. "You see pictures in "Better Homes and Gardens" and other magazines, and you can emulate this in real life."

Container gardening offers many advantages. By focusing on basic design principles along with growing and watering, you raise flowers and vegetables anywhere you like.

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