You’ve got a great collection of pots. Setting aside physical features , most gardens structure comes from use of height and plants that give a good year round structure such as evergreens and/or trees and shrubs - even deciduous. Repeating types of plants or colours can also create a sense of design and rhythm.
So I think trying to get some larger pots would help add structure, a lot of your pots seem to be a similar height and size? When browsing for bargains in future, try and get some larger (width and/or height) containers - the bigger the better. Or maybe rather than using your bricks to build beds, maybe use some to create some ‘steps’ so that you can raise some pots up, this will help to create the differences in height you get in a border, even if your pots and plants are the same size.
I would also decide which colour or shape of pots are your favourites and try and choose new ones which match (colour and/or style) or complement these, that way you will gradually begin to get a cohesive group. It doesn’t need them all too match just enough so that you avoid a bitty effect.
I can’t see the detail of what’s in your pots, but adding some (or more) evergreens will help add structure. Box balls are expensive but rosemary is easy to grow from cuttings and can be clipped into a ball shape and some Hebes like rakaiensis and buxifolia naturally grow into neat domes
Finally, I would position some of your pots into groups rather than simply straight rows along the wall. Maybe have a larger group of pots in the corners to add some impact. I would also put similar posts together, using colour and shape. This way they will have more impact e.g all the blues will give a lovely splash of blue even if empty or not looking their best, the same with the yellows and so on.
A lot of the wonderful container gardens you see in books and on tv have somewhere they hide pots until their at their best and after the flowers fade. Not always feasible but using cheap plastic pots inside your best decorative ones, would mean you could swap out plants to have the best on show and just use a quiet corner ( maybe behind a bit of trellis) for those “resting” or tuck them to the back of your display where they are less on show.
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So I think trying to get some larger pots would help add structure, a lot of your pots seem to be a similar height and size? When browsing for bargains in future, try and get some larger (width and/or height) containers - the bigger the better. Or maybe rather than using your bricks to build beds, maybe use some to create some ‘steps’ so that you can raise some pots up, this will help to create the differences in height you get in a border, even if your pots and plants are the same size.
I can’t see the detail of what’s in your pots, but adding some (or more) evergreens will help add structure. Box balls are expensive but rosemary is easy to grow from cuttings and can be clipped into a ball shape and some Hebes like rakaiensis and buxifolia naturally grow into neat domes
Finally, I would position some of your pots into groups rather than simply straight rows along the wall. Maybe have a larger group of pots in the corners to add some impact. I would also put similar posts together, using colour and shape. This way they will have more impact e.g all the blues will give a lovely splash of blue even if empty or not looking their best, the same with the yellows and so on.
A lot of the wonderful container gardens you see in books and on tv have somewhere they hide pots until their at their best and after the flowers fade. Not always feasible but using cheap plastic pots inside your best decorative ones, would mean you could swap out plants to have the best on show and just use a quiet corner ( maybe behind a bit of trellis) for those “resting” or tuck them to the back of your display where they are less on show.
East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham