Container Planting Service

Custom Container

Get a jump on the season and take advantage of our time saving container planting service!

Here's How it Works

Bring us your containers in April or May or choose from our selection of empty containers here. Katie will personally custom design each container, depending on your flower and colour preferences and final location of containers. We will then plant, grow and care for your containers until you pick them up.

By late May your containers will be full and beautiful - ready to enjoy!

Growing Fee

The fee for most containers is $20.00 each. This includes, professional design, planting, potting soil, slow release fertilizer, growing space in greenhouse and care until pick up. Plant cost will be additional.

Katie's Deck Planters 2009
An easy and unusual combo!

November 2009

Thought I'd share with you my plant choices this year for my home deck as I think they worked really well. I used Swiss Chard as an ornamental (did not eat these plants!) and combined it with annual ornamental grasses, Carex Prairie Fire (left and right planters) and Carex Amazon Mist centre planter). The result was a simple, clean look, with no deadheading (I did fertilize though!), and only a small amount of maintenance to remove old Swiss Chard leaves. The Swiss Chard did wilt a little in the heat, but with a good drink it perked back up again as you watched. The Carex grasses offered some fabulous texture and Prairie Fire developed a gorgeous red tinge as the summer and fall went on.

All plants are frost hardy, we gained an extra 6 weeks of enjoyment from them after the first frost. The photo below was taken in October and I cleaned out the planters on November 8th, before they froze in - they still looked beautiful and I enjoyed watching the wind play with the grasses as I sat at my desk. Something to consider for next year...

Deck Planters

Our Plants Brighten up
Downtown Creemore

July 2009

If you are out and about over the summer, drop by the village of Creemore and check out the planter boxes on the street. This year the BIA commissioned us to design, plant and grow the containers. We used a combination of Talinum Limon, Begonia Dragon Wing Red, Verbena Superbena Burgundy, Licorice plant, Sweet Potato Vine Lime and Blackie to create a classy, eye catching, hardy show that can tolerate the rigours of street life! Let us know what you think!

Creemore Planters

Customer Comments

May 27, 2007
Katie - just picked up my containers, they look great! Thanks for the instant garden, I've been so busy this year I would never have had time to plant these myself. Last year I enjoyed my containers well into October by pulling them into the garage on a few cold nights.
Valerie in Mansfield