Man's Draperies For Indoor Plants
In a pure sense, “container gardening” connotes a completely new concept created for, or evolving out of, contemporary architecture and its bold use of clean lines and unadorned space. These settings both benefit by and set off a display of plants, bringing many principles of modern interior decoration into play outdoors. Containers are an important part of the picture. They may be included in the architect’s or landscape architect’s plan, or added by the homeowner in the same way draperies and other decorations are added indoors.
Actually, plants have always been grown in outdoor “containers.” The window or balcony box is not new; neither is the stone or ceramic urn, or the recessed or raised garden bed on a patio or terrace. The newness is in the concept itself – a new kind of gardening that brings the landscape into the outdoor living area or up to the house, caters to today’s desire for constant change and flexibility, and provides opportunity for expression of creative individuality.
For every type of outdoor container there is a wide choice of suitable vines, hanging plants and landscape plant. And so they provide soft grace and refreshment for a Maine window box or a Texas patio, a metropolitan rooftop garden or a palatial California terrace, a small suburban outdoor living room or an Old World balcony. Large or small, bold or demure, alone or in combination with other plants, vines are indispensable to everyone who has reason to garden in containers – and nearly everyone has. » Read more: Man’s Draperies For Indoor Plants
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