Vegetables, herbs and fruit can be planted in containers when you need an alternative to a traditional garden. Here's how to make it work.

When choosing a container, consider how its color, design and material will match the style and décor of the house, garden or other outdoor space in which the container will be located.

Pick the right plants and pots, and you can grow a bounty of vegetables in containers—here’s how.

“They’re a fantastic way to add color and greenery for small outdoor spaces,” says Mark Soboil, the founder of Shellscapes on ...

For lush, abundant container arrangements, the traditional recipe includes a cute, rhyming threesome of plant types: thrillers, fillers and spillers. Thrillers are tall upright plants intended to ...

Thrillers are tall upright plants intended to draw the eye upward. Plant your thriller first, placing it in the center of the container.