Lavalette Nursery of Huntington, West Virginia

Featured Product: Glazed Pots

Container gardens date back to ancient Rome and Egypt, but are becoming more popular every year as people realize how easy it is to pretty up a patio with pots of petunias. And while the flowers in the pots are colorful, the containers are usually either terra cotta orange or concrete gray.

Let us pot you up

Container gardens are popular because they add instant beauty anywhere you need it -- on your porch or deck or as a focal point in your yard. These pots are relatively low maintenance -- give them enough water and fertilizer and they’ll reward you all summer with colorful blooms.

But while container gardens are easy to take care of, they’re not always easy to create. You have to choose plants that have similar sun and moisture requirements, plants of varying mature height, and a mixture of upright and trailing plants. If you put the wrong combination of plants in the same container, some may die and others may grow so large they crowd out everything else.

The experts at Lavalette Nursery will come to your rescue. They’ll provide advice and even do all the work for you. Choose some of Lavalette’s new imported glazed pots or the traditional terra cotta containers and let Mark and his helpers design and plant the containers for you. Or if you enjoy doing it yourself, let the Lavalette experts know the size (diameter) of your containers and whether they’ll be in the sun or shade. The experts will pick out suitable combinations of plants for them. All you have to remember is to put the tall ones in the middle and the trailing ones at the edges.

But the folks at Lavalette Nursery and Garden Center offer a way to brighten up your container garden with glazed clay pots.

These imported glazed pots come in many designer colors and textures, from bright blue to subtle peach.

You can use several sizes of containers of the same color grouped together for a dramatic statement or mix in one or two different colors of glazed pots with your existing terra cotta ones for contrast.

Glazed pots have several advantages over ordinary clay ones. For example, you can use your artistic talents to color coordinate plants and pots. And for contrast, imagine how striking a large blue container filled with bright pink petunias or yellow dahlias would be.

In addition to their beauty, glazed pots will save you time and effort. Because they are not porous, water loss is minimized.

And the glazed pots will not get that white residue often found on the outside of clay pots.

Glazed pots can be used indoors or out, but those used outdoors should not be left out all winter. They’re available in various sizes from 6 inches to about 20 inches and all have drainage holes.

So stop by Lavalette Nursery soon and check out the new glazed pots while there’s still a large selection.