Andrew Bunting is vice president of horticulture at Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS), where he promotes gardening for the greater good. PHS supports healthier neighborhoods through horticulture by cleaning and greening vacant lots, planting and maintaining street trees, partnering with community gardeners to share resources and conserve productive open space, and demonstrating ecologically sound gardening practices in public gardens throughout the greater Philadelphia area. Andrew’s extensive public gardening career includes time spent at Chicago Botanic Garden, Chanticleer, and 27 years at the Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College. His Fine Gardening articles have covered topics like autumn-flowering trees, shrubs for shade, and selecting trees for structure. In this episode, he discusses the evolution of his home garden, the lessons learned from the many gardens his hands have touched, and the potential for making our shared landscapes more sustainable and inclusive.
19 String Of Pearls Planting Styles and Ideas
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While it is no surprise that you would love the elegant cascading look of the String of Pearls, finding the right way to display it can be a real task. But worry not, for we have provided some of the best String of Pearls planting styles and ideas.
With these, you can spruce up your home aesthetic according to your liking, using the plant’s lush green bead-like leaves, which resemble pearls.
Draw all eyes to your prized String of Pearls plant by displaying it on the top shelf and letting it cascade down!
Got a free weekend? Why not take up this amazing DIY project and create a beautiful heart-shaped trellis like this for the vining String of Pearls?
While your String of Pearls may not exactly block sunlight coming to your room, they will definitely make for an eye-catching display in hanging planters cascading down near your window, providing you some privacy as well.
Yet another creative way you can display your String of Pearls while recycling things around your house is with interesting glass flasks like this.
If you have gotten a new baby String of Pearls, one of the best ways to make it a center of attraction in your home is to display it in a small planter on your center table.
For a boho-chic aesthetic anywhere in your home, deck, or balcony, pot up your String of Pearls in a macrame planter.
Succulents and vines like the String of Pearls deserve their own special display space. So pot them up in monochromatic planters and let them light up any shelf in their full glory!
Head to the storage room and pick out that vase you discarded as being useless. It can serve as a wonderful modern container for your String of Pearls.
Prefer the industrial aesthetic in your home? Well, you can display your String of Pearls in a hanging
Episode 166: Gardening for the Greater Good with Andrew Bunting
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