Container Gardening Revolution
Today container gardening has become a huge business. Around 50 years ago nearly all of the bedding plants sold to gardeners each spring were planted out in beds or borders. Today more than half of the bedding plants we buy go into containers of all descriptions rather than go into the soil. There has, it could be said, been a container revolution in recent years, a dramatic rise in the use of pots, hanging baskets, etc around the home and in the garden. Flower bedecked tubs and troughs now stand at the fronts and backs of houses on every street, but it would be quite wrong to think that container gardening is something new. It could be said that container gardening is as old as gardening itself.