Even small spaces need great design. Container and small space gardens - decks, alcoves and patios are all great spots to "green" up with planted pots. Add color, texture and warmth to your small spaces - or drama to a large space - with a well-designed container. Birdbaths, fountains, troughs and more make great containers. Irrigation can be run to your containers or Oyas (water vessels) can be planted in the containers to provide irrigation and to keep your plants healthy.

Photo of a mid-sized traditional partial sun front yard landscaping in Omaha.

A look inside container 2 of 2: the "Home Office/Studio/ Do what you want space" This unit features custom cedar mill work, fully insulated and solar powered. This room is ready to used for any number of uses.

Kieran Wagner (www.kieranwagner.com)
Inspiration for a contemporary kitchen remodel in Richmond

Largest pot: Furcraea foetida ‘Mediopicta’ Smaller pots: Sanseveria ‘Flame’ See a short video about this pottery at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvR_A19-mGw"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvR_A19-mGw. See over 1000 photos of Palm Beach landscapes and container gardens suitable for south Florida on her web site, pamela-crawford.com. Pamela designs and installs landscapes throughout Palm Beach County, FL, including Boca Raton, Delray Beach, the town of Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Jupiter, and Wellington. Learn how to design and plant container gardens from Pamela's book, 'Easy Container Gardens.' See a free, 24-page sample of the book at www.pamela-crawford.com in the 'Books' section. Photo by Joe McBroom.

Here is a Zen Meditation Deck Creekside at Art Collective Design Studio. Succulents provide a low-maintenance and low water option for your outdoor OR indoor space. Photo cred: Joshua Thayer

Inspiration for a small modern white one-story wood flat roof remodel in Other with a green roof

Hibiscus standards, with Ipomea vines and New Guinea Impatiens. Four identical containers at corners of formal sunken garden
Photo of a large traditional full sun formal garden in New York for summer.

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Inspiration for a small contemporary metal railing balcony container garden remodel in Providence with no cover

This 'Yellow Pair' tomato is underplanted with Melampodium. It is supported with an iron obelisk. Learn how to grow easy vegetables that look great on your patio from the book "Easy Container Combos: Vegetables & Flowers." See a free, 24 page sample of the book at www.pamela-crawford.com. in the 'Books' section. Pamela Crawford designed and photographed the planter. Pamela designs landscapes throughout Palm Beach County, FL, including Boca Raton, Delray Beach, the town of Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Jupiter, and Wellington.

Design ideas for a small traditional full sun front yard concrete paver formal garden in Providence for summer.

The "secret ingredient" in organic container gardens: worm castings with live worms. Red compost worms convert organic nutrients in potting soils into plant-available form, and the last chamber of the worm gut is loaded with beneficial bacteria and fungi that boost plant immunity, cycle nutrients, and increase the water-holding capacity of the potting soil. Photo by Steve Masley.

Example of an urban exterior home design in Santa Barbara

Custom made IPE 'Floating' Roof Deck and planters. Custom made Feeney Cable Rail
Patio container garden - mid-sized contemporary patio container garden idea in New York with no cover and decking

This shipping container office has installed louver vents to help circulate the air flow. Louver vents can be adjusted to open and close when necessary. This shipping container office has installed bamboo flooring on the outside porch. This custom built porch provides plenty of space for outside furniture to lounge on during lunch hours. We also offer the option to put your companies logo on the side!

Entire penthouse deck was redone. Four large, oblong existing planters were cleaned out and new screening plants, or a mixed planting, were designed and installed. Three large lightweight containers in black were substituted for existing ceramic containers. Two smaller matching lightweight containers were added to create a grouping around an existing sculpture.

Deck container garden - mid-sized modern backyard deck container garden idea in New York with no cover

Photography by Braden Gunem Project by Studio H:T principal in charge Brad Tomecek (now with Tomecek Studio Architecture). This project questions the need for excessive space and challenges occupants to be efficient. Two shipping containers saddlebag a taller common space that connects local rock outcroppings to the expansive mountain ridge views. The containers house sleeping and work functions while the center space provides entry, dining, living and a loft above. The loft deck invites easy camping as the platform bed rolls between interior and exterior. The project is planned to be off-the-grid using solar orientation, passive cooling, green roofs, pellet stove heating and photovoltaics to create electricity.

Classic porch container garden idea in Houston with a roof extension