One of the finalists was a woman whose rooftop garden in downtown Chicago overlooked Lake Michigan. Most garden centers offer a variety of containers for gardening. Some of the traditional clay and concrete forms may be too heavy for your needs, but a wide range of styles in lighter weight plastics guarantee that you can find something suitable. Mounting hardware provides many options for attaching containers to walls, patio railings, lamps, and fence posts. Container gardens can easily transform an apartment balcony, townhouse patio, building rooftop, or even a hopelssly compacted spot of poor soil into a site for wildlife.
Container gardens are also easy and inexpensive to construct.
The traditional Mother's Day hanging basket of fuchsia or impatiens is a great starting point for your container wildlife garden, but you need not stop there. Cosmos and asters do well in pots and also produce seeds that attract finches and sparrows. There is no need to limit your offerings to the traditional nursery stocks of bedding plants. Scarlet runner beans grown in a pot and trellised on strings stretched up a sunny wall will attract hummingbirds. Morning glories also thrive in similar warm, sunny locations.