Are there any general rules of thumb when planting container gardens?
Answer The question I will try to answer is, “why don’t my containers look like the nursery container?” I will start by saying that Ipomoea is “morning glory vine”. It may only reach 6-8″ high like the stick says, but it will get 15 to 30 FEET long. That is enough for many whiskey barrels. It is a runner. Moving along the ground, and when it blooms it seeds itself every where. To keep this plant looking the way it does in the nursery, I would guess that they are pruning it constantly to keep it the size they want. (It would be nice if you could talk to the person planting, and caring for the containers you like, and find out just how they do it.) But I will try to figure it out. The smaller plants that aren’t doing well, sound like a case of too much dirt. I hear you saying, what does she mean, too much dirt? If you ever look at a nicely planted container, you will almost always see that it is jammed with plants. It may look too crowded to do well, but there is a reason for the jamming
