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Potted Gardens: Create a Spring Container-scape
A potted garden with a ‘Gold Heart’ bleeding heart as the focal point of this spring container planting. Potted gardens add character and definition to porch and patio spaces. Spring compositions are...
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Wide Mouth Pots: Bigger Pots – Bigger Rewards
If you’re gardening on patio, porch, deck, roof or terrace, you need the right pots. Choose wide mouth pots large enough to support long lived woody plants that offer big rewards of beauty and food....
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Sticks On Fire
Even though it is not winter hardy in most of our Pacific NW climate, for a novelty container plant, it is hard to top the color of Euphorbia tirucalli. This often goes by the common name of Red...
View ArticleStart Seed Indoors 4 of 6: Sowing Your Seed Properly
The first step of any seed sowing project is to read the entire label of the seed packet. That tells you how deep to plant each kind of seed. Those that are usually started indoors range from 1/8 to...
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Start Seed Indoors 5 of 6: Proper Watering of Indoor Seedlings
Mist: Adjustable nozzles offer a mist setting for seedlings, then as they grow older the convenient soaker setting quickly fills pots. Every gardener has done it at least once. Watering newly sown...
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Start Seed Indoors 6 of 6: Transplant Seedlings Into Pots
Seedlings: All these seedlings are ready to be transplanted into individual pots. When your seedlings begin to ramp up growth, they might not find much nutrition in the sprouting media. That’s why...
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Starting Seeds Indoors
Early spring is the time to begin thinking about a vegetable garden and with the seed catalogs that have been arriving at my house; it is a telling signal that the arrival of spring is not far away. I...
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Take Baby Steps for Success When Choosing A Pot Size
When choosing a pot size for your young transplant, it can be tempting to take a small plant and put it into a very large pot in order to encourage it to grow. However, because the potting medium...
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Easy Does It: Gently Loosening Potted Plants
The image on the left above is NOT a good horticultural practice! To remove a plant from its container, gently tip your plant while supporting it at the soil line with your free hand. Be kind to your...
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Potting Soil Makes Hanging Baskets Resilient
Moss baskets make it next to impossible to overwater plants, and that’s why they’re different from any other hanging pot. Each basket is composed of a suspended wire framework lined with fibrous...
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Amaranthus ‘Joseph’s Coat’
It is not too late to plant some summer flowers and foliage plants from seed. I am always surprised that more people don’t plant Amaranthus ‘Joseph’s Coat’ as it is very easy to grow from seed, likes...
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Superior Organic Fertilizer from Humble Earthworms
Earthworms are tiny, but they make a tremendous impact on your garden. Earthworms are the ultimate recyclers of the natural world. They take the debris and litter of the garden and digest it, creating...
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Keep Petunias And Calibrachoa Shining All Season
Petunias look good planted almost anywhere or in anything. For glowing garden color nothing beats that old standby, the Petunia. Why? Petunias, and the closely related Calibrachoa, are tough, pretty...
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Golden Spirit Smoke Trees: Prune To Fit Your Container Garden
Sometimes a plant that we think of as growing to 15 feet in height or more, can actually be kept quite small by severe pruning. I have a Cotinus coggygria ‘Golden Spirit’ (Smoke Tree) growing in a pot...
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Pistachio Hydrangea is the Winner
At the recent Farwest Show (national nursery trade show held in Portland, Oregon), there was a section call “New Varieties Showcase”. New and recently introduced plants were exhibited and participants...
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Iochroma ‘Royal Queen Purple’
We have many pots on our deck and I always like to try some new plants each year. This year I planted Iochroma ‘Royal Queen Purple’ using Black Gold Natural & Organic Potting Soil and the results...
View ArticleHow to Make a Pumpkin Planter: Donna Wright on Garden Time TV
Black Gold’s always helpful, always creative Donna Wright appears on Garden Time TV and demonstrates how to make a pumpkin planter.
View ArticleMaking Black Gold Bulb Containers: Donna Wright on Garden Time TV
Black Gold’s always helpful, always creative Donna Wright appears on Garden Time TV and demonstrates how to make Black Gold bulb containers.
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Easy To Grow Indoor Succulents
If you love Anthropologie stores and the endless displays of ordinary things made extraordinary by grouping them with fresh ideas, then consider ditching your demanding houseplants for easy to grow...
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Celebrating with Spiral Topiaries
Nothing gives an entry more pizzaz than a pair of spiral topiaries flanking the front door. Plant them in a beautiful large pot and you’ve got the start of a truly elegant winter display. Spirals are...
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