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Whole garden in pots - how?
M33R4
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I've seen viewers with spectacular gardens grown in pots. How do they manage that please? Plants in pots in my garden are not as big, not as healthy looking, don't reach their full potential. When I put those same plants in the ground, they flourish.
To achieve a proper garden in pots:
To achieve a proper garden in pots:
- What substrate to plant in?
- What regular care?
- Do you change the substrate each year?
- What to feed and how often?
- Do you bring those pots in over winter of cover them in fleece?
- What perennials do really well in pots?
- Do the base of the pots sit in saucers?
- What do you sit the pots on - e.g gravel, plastic saucer, slabs, etc?
- Anything other considerations?
I wish I could garden all year round!
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Those skilled in the art have troughs of water so they don't spend too much time filling up watering cans.
I have about 10 agapanthuses in ca 2ft diameter pots. Also perhaps another 10 hostas. I can't grow either in the borders. Agas: shade, Hostas: molluscs and je ne sais quoi. On paving, no poi feet.
All in JI No3 for ca 2years and no fertiliser. They go closer to the house in the winter, except fot a couple of evergreen agas that used to go in a cold g'house, but have died and been disposed. The cheap pots suffer from frost more than the plants.
Also overwintered are : a largish lemon, and one big and one 1 ft pot oleander (kept in a filled saucer in the summer). I used to have Brugmansias but they became hard work. And I am forgetting my many bay trees that are fleeced overwinter.
But terrace only, by no means the whole garden.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
What pots do you recommend please?
Pitoi-like Cretan pots are great, Yorkshire Pots and Whichford I have found fit the bill.
I forgot to mention my lollypop olive. It survived the winter well, but the bargain pot is disintegrating around the rim.
Oh! And think holiday watering,
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."