Whether you are planning a small urban garden, considering a vertical garden for a balcony or deck, or landscaping a parking strip, small-space gardening is a challenge. In fact, it's one of the most common garden challenges facing home gardeners and landscapers. To ease the challenge, here are some of our small-space garden favorites:

  • Drift® Groundcover Roses: The low-spreading habit of Drift® Roses is perfect for small gardens and combination planters. They brighten borders, fill empty spaces and spread around established plants.
  • Clematis Sapphire Indigo®: This Clematis is best used as a weed-smothering ground cover with no support and allowed to sprawl through your garden or in a container. It blooms from June through September.
  • Veronica Moody Blues: The Veronica Moody Blues series is compact and has a tidy habit, making it an excellent plant for any garden or mixed container, plus there are four great colors to choose from which bloom all season!
  • Penstemon Rock Candy®: Penstemon Rock Candy®, available in two compact varieties with bold colors, stays below 12" in height and fits in well along borders and walkways or in containers.
  • Achillea Moon Dust: This is a compact yarrow with soft yellow flowers and attractive silver foliage that blends well with other colors in your garden. Its compact habit makes it a great option for container plantings.
  • Sunblaze® Miniature Roses: For rose lovers with small gardens, Sunblaze® Miniature Roses is a superb selection. Hardy and easy to grow, these compact roses bloom from spring until fall. They perform well when used as a border and are spectacular in containers. There are twelve varieties in this series to choose from.

Support the River Cities' Reader

Get 12 Reader issues mailed monthly for $48/year.

Old School Subscription for Your Support

Get the printed Reader edition mailed to you (or anyone you want) first-class for 12 months for $48.
$24 goes to postage and handling, $24 goes to keeping the doors open!

Click this link to Old School Subscribe now.



Help Keep the Reader Alive and Free Since '93!

 

"We're the River Cities' Reader, and we've kept the Quad Cities' only independently owned newspaper alive and free since 1993.

So please help the Reader keep going with your one-time, monthly, or annual support. With your financial support the Reader can continue providing uncensored, non-scripted, and independent journalism alongside the Quad Cities' area's most comprehensive cultural coverage." - Todd McGreevy, Publisher