Pot Gardening is quite popular for many reasons. At the top of that list is the fact that in comparison to the population, only a few people have a big garden or yard where they can actually plant flowers and plants in the ground.
Does this mean that the rest of the people who have small gardens or live in high rise buildings shouldn't enjoy the beauty of flowers and the pleasure of gardening? It certainly doesn't.
If you don't have a garden or yard, there is no need to give up your gardening hobby! Pot Gardening, or container gardening, provides the solution. You can have plants and flowers in a patio, on a balcony, or even in your house. You can also grow vegetables in containers.
Container Patio Gardening
Just remember how beautiful balconies and windows look with flowers all around.
Patios can look barren without any plants, but putting a few lovely containers around with flowers in them will change the place completely and bring a bit of nature to your balcony.
You can position them so they are in the perfect spot, where they have enough sunlight or shade. And when you fancy a change, just move them around.
This way it's actually much easier to be a gardener: you can provide the perfect conditions for the flowers and plants, including choice of soil type, and pest control, which are much harder to take care of and control in a big garden.
Container Gardening Flowers
Naturally, Pot Gardening is useful for other reasons as well. Most of flower species don't survive in the winter if they are left outside: this is why it's a good idea to bring them into the house in containers until the cold winter days are gone.
Some gardeners prefer to plant young flowers in containers before spring comes to get some early growth in, and then plant them outside when they are a bit stronger.
If you have plants in containers, you can also just move them around in the house as you like it, and take them with you even when you move home – you can certainly not do that with a garden.
I have quite a few trees planted in containers that I fully intend to take with me when I sell my house. I have purple beech trees, maples, pines, and even some Dawn Redwood and Swamp Cypress, all in pots or containers.
Type of Container
For pot gardening, there are many types of containers that you can buy. They can be made of wood, terracotta, ceramic, metal, concrete and so on. Some of these materials are porous, while others are non-porous.
This means that while some of them let the roots of the plant breed and water to evaporate, others are very solid and don't let water in or out of the pot.
For example containers made of metal or ceramics are like this: make sure that they have holes on the bottom, because otherwise they might trap too much water and kill the flowers through waterlogging of roots and lack of air circulation.
You can get containers in all shapes and sizes. You can always be creative, you don't necessarily have to spend money on containers.
You can use many things in decorative ways, barrels, pottery, buckets or anything else you think that might fit. I even planted flowers in a pair of old workmens boots once. I also stacked some old books, made a hole in the middle, and planted vine in them. After a while of rain and sun the books revert back to being a lump of wood. It was an interesting effect!
Pot gardening is also very convenient because you can hang them on the wall, or put them on stand. Window boxes and hanging baskets are very popular, since they immediately catch the eye with their beauty, and they are never in the way.
If you have pets or small children and you are worried that they will knock over the containers, you can just use these baskets and keep the flowers safe at all times.
Pot Gardening for Perennials and Annuals
Perennials grow a little bit slower, so they don't require such a big pot. Size is quite important when you choose the containers.
You should always get one that will be big enough for the plant when it is fully grown. For instance, for a plant that will be 3 foot tall, you need a container with 24 inches in diameter.
If it will grow approximately one foot tall, the container has to be 8 inches in diameter.
However, if you make a mistake and the pot turns out to be too small, you can also just replant the flower into a another container later.
If you don't, than the plant can die, because the roots don't have enough space to grow, or it can brake the pot, if it is made of less strong materials such as wood or ceramics.
Keep in mind that the size of the roots doesn't always depend on the size of the plant.
Some plants like bonsai trees for example have smaller roots which don't grow so deep. Although you do need to trim the roots every couple of years otherwise they still get potbound and die.
Some other pants such as vines, trees or shrubs need really large and deep containers. If you don't want to keep a tree in a larger container you can maintain it at 4-6ft high by trimming the roots every two years and filling the space with new compost.
These plants don't have to be replanted every year like annuals. They don't require as much care as most of the annual flowers.
However, it is much harder to replant them, so make sure that the container is big enough because later it will be hard and messy to change the pot.
Some other information related to Pot Gardening
Container Gardening Plants Why not try trees and shrubs, vegetables and herbs, all can be successfully grown in containers.
Container Gardening in Shade Container gardening in shade will add interest and even a bit of whimsy to those areas you have all but given up on.
Perennials for Container Gardens Perennials for container gardens - Tips on growing perennials in containers and what perennials are good to plant in containers.
Just remember how beautiful balconies and windows look with flowers all around. 
Perennials grow a little bit slower, so they don't require such a big pot. Size is quite important when you choose the containers. 
Some other pants such as vines, 
