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Container Planting Service
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
Please contact us to discuss the growing fee for your containers. The growing fee includes, professional design, planting, potting soil, slow release fertilizer, growing space in greenhouse and care until pick up. Plant cost will be additional.
Newsletter Articles
Katie's Barrels
2010 Summer and Winter Versions!
Thought I'd share with you the combinations that I grew in my barrels this season. I used a mix of three amazing plant varieties that really worked well together and gave us an interesting, easy display all season long, with no maintenance other than fertilizing. I used Dragon Wing Begonia Pink with Carex Prairie Fire and Sweet Potato Vine Bronze. The Dragon Wings are amazing plants that provide great colour all season long and will thrive in sun or shade.
The Carex grass is also one of my favourites as it adds such a neat texture and develops a gorgeous red tinge in the fall. The trailing bronze Sweet Potato Vine is a fairly new colour with the vigour of the lime variety. (Anyone who has grown the lime Sweet Potato Vine will know that it is extremely vigorous!) After the frost, I pulled out the Potato Vine and Dragon Wings and made a pumpkin display with the grasses. After Halloween I still left the grasses and decorated with branches of Dogwood and Yew and other seed heads which I will leave for the winter season.
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...
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!
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
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