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That eggplant's a beauty! Wish I could get mine to get just a LITTLE bit bigger. Nice job on the deck!

sooo jealous!! it looks like the sweetest perch :)

It looks like the bamboo fencing is also working pretty well as a trellis for some creeping vine. Very nice. And I really like these colors for the furniture, so reminiscent of both growing green and open sky.

Yes I use the bamboo for my berries (blackberries, blueberries). And the green color is exactly "Herbal Garden" - I thought it was appropriate! Thanks for the nice comments!

I just got a deck and am super excited. how much of that green has to come in in the winter?

well I tried to buy stuff that I can keep outside, cause the apartment is not that big! So one advice, when you buy something just look at the lablel, most of the time it's indicated the coldest temperature that your plant can resist. The berries for example can stay outside, the lilac, the small schrubs. Then vegetables, fruits (especially lemon), lavender and palm tree, I will put everything inside before it's too cold.
I think it's better if you can plant everything long time before winter, cause your plants have enough time to root in the container. What I did last year, I put coffee grounds on the top of each container, don't know if that helps, but I thought so...