Choose your container and plants wisely

Provide regular maintenance

Prepare for winter

Transplant when needed

Caitilin Driscoll has been a horticulturist for twenty - five years . She ’s currently a landscape painting decorator and the perennial manager for Shakespeare ’s Garden , a nursery in Brookfield , Connecticut .

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