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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