The English love affair with the backyard or cottage garden can be traced all the way back to Roman times. Since food was scarce, most homeowners kept fruit and vegetable gardens to help them through the winter. When farming techniques improved and food was plentiful, gardening became a simple hobby.
In time, gardeners began to focus more on decoration than they did on supplementary food sources. What we mean is that they started planting flowers instead of fruits and vegetables. In addition to the decorative benefits, flowers are much cheaper and easier to maintain than fruit and vegetable gardens.
Flowers can also be grown in pots, which can save time, space and money. One impressive new product we had the privilege to review is Stackable Plant Pot Containers. This innovative piece of gardening equipment lets flower lovers stack plants and flowers in sections in a free standing tower.
When the flowers in each section have bloomed, the tower becomes a beautiful flower tree. The advantages of this structure are fairly obvious. For one thing, it saves quite a bit of space. Instead of having random flower pots here and there, all of your plants can be kept in one place.
And because they are in one place and arranged vertically, watering is a cinch. A gardener need only douse the top plants and the water will filter down to each of the lower levels. If the stand is stacked to a height of three feet or higher, it should be secured to a wall or fence so that it won't fall over.
