Get to Know Container

Gardening and Its Advantages

Container gardening

Container gardening, a variant of miniature gardening involves

growing miniature plants and trees in containers. The containers

could vary in size from as small as a tea cup to as large as pots

or tubs. Container gardening is simple and easy to do. You could

choose a wide variety of species of miniature plants and trees

and can create a customized garden as you like.

In this article, we'll discuss a few advantages of container

gardening.

Advantages

A container garden is movable

You could place the container garden anywhere in your house

and can move it wherever you wish. You can shift the garden to

different places at different points of time depending on the way

you want to decorate your home, or the requirements

(cool/shade or sun) of the miniature plants/trees in the container.

Even when you shift to a new house, you could carry your

container garden along with you and place it as wherever you

would like.

Occupies much less space

You don’t need to bother about the space as a container garden

occupies much less space. You can place it on the floor, in your

backyard or the corridor. If in a hanging basket you can even

hang the garden from the ceiling or you can hang it on a wall

indoors or outdoors.

Hobby for those with jobs with little free time

People who are too busy could opt for container gardening as

their favorite pastime. If you feel constrained to find time

because you are busy with your job then go for container

gardening. Container gardening needs very little time for its

maintenance – you scarcely need weeding to clean up.

More need of sprucing up

Unfortunately, the smaller a miniature/container garden, the

more maintenance is required. In a bigger miniature garden

plants have more space to grow before requiring sprucing by

pruning the leaves, etc., whereas in a small container garden

plants become unsightly more quickly from excess clumsy

growth of the plants. Therefore, there is more need of sprucing

your container garden. You can take this as an advantage, too,

since this compels you to devote bit more time for your hobby

and thereby recreate from your daily occupation.

Could be an educational tool for kids

Miniature gardens could be effective educational tools for

different age groups of kids.

For early schoolers, container gardens could be introduced as

specimens of plants – what they are, how they look, their color,

habitat and so on.

Kids of these age groups get acquainted with tiny plants, which

helps in developing cognitive skills such as identifying colors,

the accessories used in container gardening, etc.

As for grown up schoolers, container gardens could be used as

specimens of plants to show the kids parts of a tree and their

importance, etc.

They could be a useful tool to develop the skill of being

sensitive to the needs of plants in relation to those of human's in

general and plants in particular.

It would help cultivate kids' interest in container gardening to

pursue it as a hobby.

Can be a stress reliever

Container gardens help you adorn and embellish your home.

They add natural colors and thus help create a relaxing

ambiance, the sight of which is likely to relieve your stress.

To conclude, container gardening could be great fun and could

help explore your creative potential in improvising things and

create a piece of miniature gardening anew without a feel of

time constraint.

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plants, garden tools & dollhouse furniture to create enchanting

miniature landscapes for containers or your yard. Miniature

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