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What flowering plants in a pot for a grave?

IlikeplantsIlikeplants Posts: 894
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Any suggestions for plants that flower well in a medium sized pot for most of the year and not look so bad in winter? It would get tended to at least once a week if not twice. Pots do get dry easily so I was thinking of salvia hot lips which doesn’t mind dryness. And maybe osteospermum? Or mini hebe mixed with fuchsia? 
I would like blue flowers ideally but the main thing is flowering and easy maintenance. Thanks


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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Have you noticed whether there might be a slug or snail problem?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Nepeta, Walkers Low?
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    Dead nettle?  (Sorry, it's a terrible name and I am not making a joke.. but they do great in pots and withstand the dry and have a bluish purple flower, and flower for a long while.)
    Utah, USA.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    How big is the pot?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • IlikeplantsIlikeplants Posts: 894
    There are squirrel problems. They bit off all the dianthus buds. The pots will only be average sized 20cm diameter. I’m thinking those pot geraniums but they need regular deadheading to look good. I’ll have to experiment initially I guess but thanks for replying.
  • WibbleWibble Posts: 89
    Might be worth looking at some alpines - I have some sort of sedum (not sure what variety, but was sold as an alpine) planted in the top of an old pallet, so very sharp drainage, often dries out. It is a succulent type and produces a mass of flowers in summer. It looks the same in winter, just without the flowers. I never deadhead it, it just looks after itself really.
  • IlikeplantsIlikeplants Posts: 894
    Thanks @Wibble, will search for hardy alpines 
  • ladygardener2ladygardener2 Posts: 371
    Creeping Phlox does well in dryer conditions and only needs cut back once when the flowers go over to keep it in shape.
    As to blue flowers, Lithodora is evergreen with the most amazing colour of small blue flowers in sping/early summer and I've grown it in a pot in the past.
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