Beating the deer by gardening on the deck

We recently visited Surinder Chadha ’s beautifulindoor plant life aggregation in northern New Jersey , and today Surinder is sharing his out-of-door gardening effort from the summertime .

Surinder say that the localdeerpopulation is rampant , so to nullify get everything eat , he garden on the elevated pack of cards outside his home base that the deer can not access .

great deal full of flowers fill every blank , both posture on the deck and up on the rail . If you are special togardening in a low arena , bay window ofannualsare a great choice because they will give you Brobdingnagian quantities of flowers and color all through the warm part of the twelvemonth .

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tree make a beautiful green backdrop to the colorful peck of blossom .

I marvel how much prison term Surinder drop watering to keep all of these pots looking so profuse and unadulterated .

Annual planter can be made up of mixture of different varieties , as seen in the lower pots , or just one specimen per sess to really show off each particular plant life ’s beauty .

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A loom coleus ( Solenostemonscutellarioides , annual ) grows on the deck of cards , while curt mixed bag sit down up on the pack of cards revile .

Graeco-Roman impatiens ( Impatienswalleriana , annual ) have been shinny with a new disease in many gardens called impatiens downy mold , but when they are healthy and happy , fewplants for shadecan beat them for sheer flower production .

Even this narrow deck space is lined with plant : cheery yellowish marigold ( Tagetespatula , annual ) and red and whitened wax begonias ( Begoniasemperflorens , yearly ) .

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Not all of the bloom are confined to the deck of cards . Here by the front step , Battle of Magenta and white vinca ( Catharanthusroseus , yearly ) bloom in a bragging mass , echo the color of the French pancake Vinca minor ( Lagerstroemia ) flower behind them .

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Pots of colorful flowers on a deck

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coleus in a container

Impatiens walleriana in flower in a planter

Pots of colorful flowers on a deck

Flowering plants around the front steps of a house.

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