Trailing Perennial for Pillar Pot

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  July 2019 edited July 2019

  Diascia trails a bit too. Comes in great colours, seems very hardy and tough. You'd need to keep up with the watering, though.
  

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  July 2019 edited July 2019

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• cassie.a.stewart Posts: 279

  July 2019

  Fire said:

  Diascia trails a bit too. Comes in great colours, seems very hardy and tough. You'd need to keep up with the watering, though.
  

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Thank you! 

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• cassie.a.stewart Posts: 279

  July 2019

  Orchidia said:

  Seems a bit weird that it doesn't have drainage. Was it originally for planting or some other purpose?
  

  Not a clue, it was put in 30+ years ago, but I'll ask my dad as he put them in lol

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• josusa47 Posts: 3,530

  July 2019 edited July 2019

  Creeping Jenny, perennial and comes in green or yellow leaved varieties, both have flowers like buttercups.  Trailing fuchsias.  Vinca major or minor.  Variegated ivy such as "Yellow Ripple"  Lonicera japonica.  Perennial sweet pea.
  

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• cassie.a.stewart Posts: 279

  July 2019

  josusa47 said:

  Creeping Jenny, perennial and comes in green or yellow leaved varieties, both have flowers like buttercups.  Trailing fuchsias.  Vinca major or minor.  Variegated ivy such as "Yellow Ripple"  Lonicera japonica.  Perennial sweet pea.
  

  Thank you I'll take a look at them! 

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• hogweed Posts: 4,053

  July 2019

  I would go for some pretty leaved ivy for winter interest and pop in some summer trailers every year just to give you the flowers you wish.

  'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller

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• Buttercupdays Posts: 4,546

  July 2019

  You could try perennial candytuft, Iberis sempervirens. Mine grows on the edge of a drystone wall and trails down to the ground. Flowers in spring and summer but stays a cheerful bushy green all year. I have the white one but there is a mauvey one too.
  

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