I agree, a collection of plants in pots that you can rearrange and change with the seasons would look good. Depends whether you have the time and inclination to do that though. I'm reminded of a few segments that Rachel de Thame did on Gardeners' World - one of them's here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07vpcm6/player
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I also agree a collection of seasonal pots would work well. It is time consuming and you need to always be thinking what comes next. Different heights, widths and an odd number maybe. One concern I would have with small pots is someone helping themselves?
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
It doesn't have to be time consuming if you include one or two evergreens or long performers into the mix and replace the others as they pass their best time, for example a Euonymus, fern, ornamental grass or Euphorbia as the evergreen, with bulbs and annuals for colour.
In a south facing spot you're going to be watering it all the time! It would be more viable in a semi-shaded position, especially for the Trachelospermum which don't particularly like hot dry sites. Could you lift an area of block paving and plant into the ground, or at least allowed it to root into the soil?
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@Loxley I had a Trachelospermum in a large pot on a south facing wall at my last house in Dordogne. It was fine in a hot site. I've seen them in Italy too. During a Covid lock down I was stuck in England and it was only watered occasionally by a friend. What they don't like is being very cold and wet in winter.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I stand corrected, but I have three and the one in the hottest driest spot looked unhappy compared to the ones in shadier positions. However it didn't get any supplemental watering, which one in a pot would get (if you are a diligent waterer!)
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