Container Garden Recipes and Hardiness Zones

For those of you interested in creating container gardens for your outdoor spaces, this website is a great resource. It offers container garden "recipes" that are very pretty. They have taken all of the guess work out of creating a container garden for any area (full sun, shade, or sun and shade). They offer a  list of plants to buy, what kind of container to use, and where to plant each plant in the container for the best effect. 

Here it is: http://www.simplybeautifulgardens.com/containers.aspx

Also, gardeners must know which hardiness zone you live in so that you plant plants that are appropriate to that zone. For example, North Georgia is in hardiness zones 7a - 7b while and Middle Georgia are in hardiness zones 8a - 8b. If you look on the tag of the plant at the home improvement store, it should say which zone the plant is best suited for. Here is a website which contains a map of all the hardiness zones in the U.S. Plants grow best in their appropriate hardiness zone. Here is a website which details all of the hardiness zones in the U.S. - http://www.garden.org/zipzone/

Happy container gardening!