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rainymountain's Container garden

Garden Type: Container | Sun: Partial Sun | Soil: Combination | Established: 2008 | Organic

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The Container garden consists of a number of containers some of which are ‘permanent’ plantings and some are annual, including this summer tomatoes, eggplants, courgettes, potatoes and runner beans. The permanent plantings include tender perennials such as pelagoniums, agapanthus, crinum and canna. The three latter overwinter in the basement (warmish) where they die back. I water them occasionally to prevent them drying out completely and bring them upstairs into the light in March so that they are growing well by the time they go outside. The pelagoniums join the winter garden upstairs and go into bigger pots in the summer joined by annuals. Other containers which contain a mix of annuals and perennials are murielie and begonias, whose bulbs/corms I save overwinter in paper bags in the basement. These also get started in early Spring.

A camellia in a pot with a Silver Variegated English Holly and Clematis cartmanaii ‘Joe’ also comes indoors over winter.

Remaining outside over winter are planters of tulips or other spring bulbs, a clematis and two evergreens. They are put in bags of leaves for insulation and other leaf bags are put around or on top except for the Juniper ‘Moonglow’ which has a Needlepoint Ivy in its pot and sits on the porch beside the door with its pot wrapt in bubble wrap. The sides of the porch give it additional shelter.

An outdoor organic garden located in Revelstoke BC, Canada, rainymountain's Container garden currently contains 27 plants.

This is a Container garden that is known to be in USDA Hardiness Zone 5b. It has mainly Combination soil and receives Partial Sun light.

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Plantings

  • Everlasting Sweet Pea

    Everlasting Sweet Pea Day 262

    Lathyrus latifolius

    Planting Out on 05 Sep 12 Lathyrus latifolius Perennial, large clusters ...

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  • Watercress

    Watercress Day 303

    Nasturtium officinale

    Sown on 26 Jul 12 West Coast Seeds - Watercress: perennial cress ...

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  • Poppy California

    Poppy California

    Eschscholzia californica

    Sown on 12 Apr 12 Mr Fothergill's, in orange round

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  • Wheat Utrecht Blue

    Wheat Utrecht Blue

    Tritum aestivium

    Sown on 11 Apr 12 This is a fabulous ornamental wheat with blue-g...

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  • Sempervivum tectorum Silverine

    Sempervivum tectorum Silverine

    Planting Out on 07 Jul 11 Two chicks to the pedestal container

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  • French Tarragon

    French Tarragon

    Artemisia dracunculus

    Transplanted on 29 May 11 In container with borage and onion Bought at D...

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  • Welsh Multiplyer Onion

    Welsh Multiplyer Onion

    Allium fistulosum

    Transplanted on 29 May 11 In pressed card container with Borage and Tarra...

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  • Begonia Champagne

    Begonia Champagne

    Begonia x tuberhybrida

    Sown on 17 May 11 Tuberous, novelty begonia; flowers champagne co...

  • Blue Podded Peas

    Blue Podded Peas

    Pisum sativum

    Sown on 15 May 11 In a vertical soil sack, soaked first, in front...

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  • curly parsley

    curly parsley

    Petroselinum crispum

    Transplanted on 14 May 11 one pot from Terra at Farmers' Market. separat...

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  • Flat leaf parsley

    Flat leaf parsley

    Petroselinum crispum var. neapolitanum

    Purchased on 14 May 11 I bought one pot with a lot of seedlings and sp...

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  • Rosemary

    Rosemary

    Rosmarinus officinalis

    Established on 31 Dec 10 3 rooted stems - one 2", one 3.5, one 6" with s...

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  • Oregano

    Oregano

    Origanum vulgare

    Transplanted on 10 May 10 In planter with garlic chives, onion chives and...

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  • Garlic Chives

    Garlic Chives

    Allium tuberosum

    Transplanted on 10 May 10 In planter with onion chives, silver thyme and ...

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  • Silver Thyme

    Silver Thyme

    Transplanted on 10 May 10 Label: Silver Thyme Thymus citriodorus In pl...

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  • Onion Chives

    Onion Chives

    Allium schoenoprasum

    Transplanted on 10 May 10 In planter with silver thyme, garlic chives and...

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  • Blue Hair Grass

    Blue Hair Grass

    Koeleria glauca

    Transplanted on 07 May 10 edges Pedestal bowl bought at Coopers Koe...

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  • Juniper squamata

    Juniper squamata

    Juniperus squamata

    Established on 10 Oct 09 I think that this was bought in 2005 or 06 from...

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  • Crinum x powelli

    Crinum x powelli

    Crinum x powellii

    Established on 09 May 09 Permanent container: Bought this 4-5 years ago...

  • Begonia Apricot Non-Stop

    Begonia Apricot Non-Stop

    Begonia x tuberhybrida

    Purchased on 17 Apr 09 This is only just beginning to flower in mid-Se...

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  • Begonia Picotee on Top

    Begonia Picotee on Top

    Begonia x tuberhybrida

    Purchased on 04 Apr 09 Planted May in a planter along with Apricot Non...

  • Shrubby Beard-Tongue

    Shrubby Beard-Tongue

    Penstemon fructicosus

    Established in May 2007 Permanent container aka ugly container: I seem...

  • Begonia Red Non-Stop

    Begonia Red Non-Stop

    Begonia x tuberhybrida

    Purchased on 14 Apr 07 This was bought at the same time as the Yellow ...

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  • Begonia Yellow

    Begonia Yellow

    Begonia x tuberhybrida

    Purchased on 04 Apr 07 Bought 2007. What is rather odd is that accordi...

  • Silver Variegated English Holly

    Silver Variegated English Holly

    Ilex

    Purchased in Nov 2006 Bought at the local supermarket, one of those C...

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  • Rosa Flower Carpet Coral var Noala

    Rosa Flower Carpet Coral var Noala

    Rosa

    Purchased in Sep 2006 This was moved from East 2 Fall 09 where it was...

  • Camillia 'April Remembered'

    Camillia 'April Remembered'

    Camellia japonica

    Purchased in Feb 2006 I bought this in Vancouver when I was visiting ...

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