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Plants and design to re-use chimney pots?

myclayjungle · 2023-04-23 15:02:17

After renovating, we have over 10 chimney pots I'd like to re-purpose. I was thinking of burying them at various heights, leaving a few on their side with trailing plants out the ends. Ideally I'd like bee friendly perennials and some evergreens- but struggling to know what? Lobelia, creeping thyme? If you have any other…

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Songbird-2 Posts: 2,349

April 2023 edited April 2023

We used to have an old terracotta chimney pot in our old house. We used the trick @AnniD suggested ( with tray wedged in underneath pot) and had Tumbling Ted ( Saponaria ocymoides) growing in it. It was lovely trailing over the top.

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