Some helpful hints for planting a porch container garden:

1. Use lots of the same plant rather than many different plants.
2. Choose only one color or two complementary colors.
3. Overplant your containers from.... MORE

Though there is no real formula for the ideal number of and size of plants for the perfect garden, there are some good rules of thumb... FIND OUT!
Did you know . . .that tulips continue to grow after they are cut? Or that during WWII the Dutch traded 4 million tulip bulbs for arms from the U.S.? Did you know that it takes seven years for a tulip grown from seed to flower? Have Tulipmania?FIND OUT MORE
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Dear Brownthumb, Let's talk about over-watering . . .

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