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duane's container exposition, certainly not a diatribe

There's a lot of good thinking in Duane's post. I find myself agreeing with a lot of it.
However, I also share many of Lynn's experiences with customers' wants and the need to get a paycheque.
 
We sell many of those 22 minute containers. In fact we'll sell several to the same customer throughout the gardening year.
We play close attention to HGTV and Martha and Canadian Gardening and, gosh darn it,our containers are very similar to what they suggest.
A while ago there was a thread on this list discussing "having" a garden and wanting to "garden."
The industry is split up into those two segments. Objectively, neither is better nor worse than the other, just different.
I think I have a bit of a compromise that I suggest to many of our customers.
In some corner of a "nursery" garden I grow "container" gardens in utility pots in the ground.
These pots are selected to fit inside urns and rectangular concrete formal containers.
As the season progresses and some bits fade whilst others come on, I switch pots. The removed pot gets trimmed up, fertilised, root pruned etc and popped into the hole made by the newest offering to the front entrance. Saves valuable space in the garden,
keeps the front looking good, spreads out a lot of the work and, on the off chance that a professional and wonderfully experienced horticulturist such as myself messes up the sequence somehow, there is always the 22 minute chock-a-block ( that is the phrase, isn't it?) container to fill the gap.
Dan
ps don't wait until morning, Duane. If you do we don't get the full benefit of your , um, passion- which is a good thing. dc
 
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