Attracting Winged Creatures To Your Garden – Container Gardening Savvy

It’s not difficult to find all kinds of ready-made pots, planters and hanging baskets in various styles, colors materials and sizes.  You’ll have a choice of plastic, wood, metal, and glazed pottery or clay containers.  In addition, there are moss-lined wire baskets and heavy stone or lightweight faux planters made of polyethylene, polyurethane foam, fiberglass resin, or other materials.

The best container for your situation depends on yur climate and which plants you intend to put in it.

Lightweight Pots

Made of wicker, wire, plastic or wire mesh, lightweight pots have the advantage of being portable, allowing you to vary your landscape with the seasons.  And using ready-made, lightweight hanging baskets, generally made of plastic or wire-mesh lined with sphagnum moss or a preformed liner, is an easy way to add a vertical dimension to your wildlife habitat.  However, because most plastic pots eventually deteriorate in the sun, they aren’t the best choice for long-term use.  If what you have in mind are container plantings that will sstay in one plce indefinitely, then heavier ceraic, stone, or cast iron pots will work well for you.

But, keep in mind that without help from a strong friend or access to a sturdy hand dolly, they can be difficult to maneuver, especially when filled with moist soil.  Finally, there are clay pots.  In addition to their aesthetic appeal, clay and other porous containers offer practical advantages.  They tend to be more durable than plastic pots, and their greater breathability prevents the soil from becoming soggy or waterlogged.  On the other hand, they dry out faster and therefore need to be watered more often.  In fact, during summer’s heat, a moisture-loving plant in a small porous clay pot may need watering several times a day.

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