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.Plantings
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Everlasting Sweet Pea Day 262
Lathyrus latifolius
Planting Out on 05 Sep 12 Lathyrus latifolius Perennial, large clusters ...
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Watercress Day 303
Nasturtium officinale
Sown on 26 Jul 12 West Coast Seeds - Watercress: perennial cress ...
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Eschscholzia californica
Sown on 12 Apr 12 Mr Fothergill's, in orange round
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Tritum aestivium
Sown on 11 Apr 12 This is a fabulous ornamental wheat with blue-g...
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Sempervivum tectorum Silverine
Planting Out on 07 Jul 11 Two chicks to the pedestal container
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Artemisia dracunculus
Transplanted on 29 May 11 In container with borage and onion Bought at D...
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Allium fistulosum
Transplanted on 29 May 11 In pressed card container with Borage and Tarra...
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Begonia x tuberhybrida
Sown on 17 May 11 Tuberous, novelty begonia; flowers champagne co...
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Pisum sativum
Sown on 15 May 11 In a vertical soil sack, soaked first, in front...
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Petroselinum crispum
Transplanted on 14 May 11 one pot from Terra at Farmers' Market. separat...
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Petroselinum crispum var. neapolitanum
Purchased on 14 May 11 I bought one pot with a lot of seedlings and sp...
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Rosmarinus officinalis
Established on 31 Dec 10 3 rooted stems - one 2", one 3.5, one 6" with s...
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Origanum vulgare
Transplanted on 10 May 10 In planter with garlic chives, onion chives and...
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Allium tuberosum
Transplanted on 10 May 10 In planter with onion chives, silver thyme and ...
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Transplanted on 10 May 10 Label: Silver Thyme Thymus citriodorus In pl...
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Allium schoenoprasum
Transplanted on 10 May 10 In planter with silver thyme, garlic chives and...
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Koeleria glauca
Transplanted on 07 May 10 edges Pedestal bowl bought at Coopers Koe...
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Juniperus squamata
Established on 10 Oct 09 I think that this was bought in 2005 or 06 from...
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Crinum x powellii
Established on 09 May 09 Permanent container: Bought this 4-5 years ago...
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Begonia x tuberhybrida
Purchased on 17 Apr 09 This is only just beginning to flower in mid-Se...
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Begonia x tuberhybrida
Purchased on 04 Apr 09 Planted May in a planter along with Apricot Non...
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Penstemon fructicosus
Established in May 2007 Permanent container aka ugly container: I seem...
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Begonia x tuberhybrida
Purchased on 14 Apr 07 This was bought at the same time as the Yellow ...
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Begonia x tuberhybrida
Purchased on 04 Apr 07 Bought 2007. What is rather odd is that accordi...
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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
Purchased in Sep 2006 This was moved from East 2 Fall 09 where it was...
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Camellia japonica
Purchased in Feb 2006 I bought this in Vancouver when I was visiting ...
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