The container gardening should be the simplest form of embellishment. It takes the least amount of effort, mostly because you don’t have to be an expert gardener. Attractive planters can fit inside with virtually any decorating scheme. You can move them around for a variety of effects. If you connect or install some type of watering drip system, you can basically, “set it up and forget it.

Some basic rules to remember are:

• Take into account sufficient drainage, putting gravel at the bottom of the pot or some type of other filler to maintain moisture. 
• Use containers that are large enough to accommodate a plant couple (to preserve that transplanted). 
• Know your plants – if too much sun or wind will break or kill them, you need to know what to do. I’ve planted flowers outside in the wrong place only to have bad windy weather, break the stems. The flowers were beautiful, but not suited for the location.
• Try to be creative uniting various plants in various combinations of color, texture and even smell.

If you have children or your neighbor’s children that are in awe of your flowers, rather than give them they eye, make them your partner. I share my love of flowers with some of my neighbor kids and we made a deal. I told them that if they were the guardian over my flowers, I would give them some starter roots next year for them too plant. It worked this summer, and I will pay up.