Take pride in your accomplishment. You’ve created a unique, seasonal container garden and you should be excited to tell people about it. Take pictures, post them on social media, and share them with others. It’s ok to toot your horn.

Look for opportunities to learn more. If you see something you like, ask what it is. People love sharing their gardening secrets and soon you will have lots of your own to share to novice container gardeners.

Sometimes we think we know what we want but when we get planting, we realize something is out of our control. We know we want a certain color, but maybe the full sun flower just isn’t the right choice for our part sun garden. It’s ok, there are always options. Just be open minded.

If something doesn’t look quite right, ask yourself why. Does it need more or less water? More or less sun? Or, possibly more or less plants? Chances are the answers to your questions are within reach. But if not, the designers at semi green thumb are here to help. Just send us a message.

Share the love and it will all come back ten fold. Flowers make people happy and what better way to make lots of people happy than to help others plant lots of flowers.

Encourage others to plant. You and your friends, families, and neighbors can make the community brighter, one container garden at a time.

Embrace taking care of your container garden. With a little TLC it will grow and flourish every day.

Get out and plant. It feels great to be outside, breathe fresh air and get a little sun kissed. But don’t forget the sunscreen.

Take note of the sun, shade, and influences of nature in the space around your container garden so you can provide your plants what they need, when they need it.

See something that caught your eye on vacation or in another climate? Take a picture or write it down so you can try it in your container garden when that season arrives in Chicago.