Looking for a way to spruce up your patio or front entryway in your Greater Chicago area home landscape?
Container gardens could be just the right additions to bring some pops of color and pizazz to your residence, bumping up your curb appeal and creating great texture and intrigue in your otherwise boring space. You can envision two urns overflowing with contrasting shades, adding depth to your front door, or an array of pots giving your patio a warm, welcoming feeling.
But you can’t have beautiful pots full of blooms without proper container garden maintenance.
While you may think outdoor potted plants are easy to create and keep tidy and pretty, it actually takes some planning and care to ensure they stay healthy and deliver the good looking landscape additions you're after.
Let’s examine some ways to keep your outdoor potted plants growing and glowing in your Chicagoland home landscape.
*While this article offers helpful landscaping tips for residential properties, we now specialize exclusively in commercial landscaping services. If you manage a commercial property or HOA, see how we can enhance your landscape here.
Top 5 Tips for Maintaining Container Gardens
Container garden maintenance isn’t rocket science, but there are quite a few mistakes you can make that can really mess up the look and feel you’re going for with your potted plants.
The goal is to learn what your containers need to thrive.
Here are some of our best tips for maintaining container gardens.
1. Proper Watering is Crucial
Correct watering is probably the one area where outdoor potted plant care can go most awry.
It can be easy to forget to water your container plants when you're super busy. But your plants don’t know you’re busy and need water for adequate health.
There are many options here to help water your containers regularly. Tying them into your drip irrigation system where possible is a great way to keep regular watering on schedule.
Another option is self-watering containers that only need weekly watering. These use water collected in a reservoir to be available to your plants when they need it.
2. Fertilization Is Also Important For Container Garden Maintenance
Weekly fertilization is a key part of maintaining container gardens.
When you hire a landscape company in the Greater Chicago area like KD Landscape to care for your potted plants, fertilization is included in your maintenance package, so your plants get the boost they need for peak performance.
3. Remember To Keep Wildlife Away
Deer can be a nuisance in your garden, and they aren’t great for your containers either.
They like to come by and nibble on all their favorite flowers, leaving your pots looking chewed up and empty.
A deer repellent can certainly help keep grazing deer away.
A container garden maintenance service can help ensure deer and other pests aren’t making your containers look bland.
4. Deadheading To Promote Blooms
Another important service as part of container garden maintenance is deadheading.
This is the process of cutting back dead parts of your plants to encourage more blooms. When this is done properly and regularly, you’ll see fuller blooms and even re-blooms of some flowers.
5. Cleaning Things Up
Keeping your plants neat and tidy is another task in maintaining container gardens.
You’ll find your plants drop petals or debris, making your patio or front entryway look messy. Cleaning up that debris is a part of keeping containers looking their best throughout the growing seasons.
Let Us Worry About Your Outdoor Potted Plant Care in Naperville, Elmhurst, and Hinsdale, IL
Container gardens are great additions to any Chicagoland home landscape. The bright colors and gorgeous vessels add architectural elements that liven up your outdoor spaces.
While you might be able to handle container garden maintenance on your own, it can be overwhelming and easy to forget some of these tips before it’s too late, and your containers take a hit.
Let KD Landscape take this worry off of your plate. We can bring our many years of expertise in container gardening in the Greater Chicago area to the table and give you containers that look lovely all year long.
Ready to see how KD Landscape can transform your Naperville, Elmhurst, or Hinsdale, IL landscape with container gardening services? We’d love to share our design and installation expertise with you. Get started today with a free consultation. Together, we can prepare containers that wow you.
