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Pocket Planter

Southcoastgran34Southcoastgran34 Posts: 7
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Inherited this vertical planter when I moved here. I did have pansies growing but had to water sometimes twice a day and after being away for a few days the whole lot died. I have now decided to try sedums/ succulents but would really like a bit of trailing colour. Any ideas for what might survive without constant watering? It east facing. Also how do I turn my photo round? It was the right way up before!
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  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    It's a glitch. If you can trim a bit off one of the edges - just a pixel or two if you want - it generally comes out the right way up. 
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  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    I doubt much would thrive in those little pockets without constant attention/watering You could try Sempervivums ( House leeks) which will grow and flower in an East facing aspect but you would need a soil/grit based medium and it may prove to be a wee bit heavy for the individual pockets. Depends on how much you think it worth it fiddling about with or whether it may be better to ditch the pockets and consider a trellis and climber ?  
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    There are a few hardy sedums that would do well in there and trail well. Sedum reflexum (yellow flowering) in its various cultivars for example. Reflexum angelina or aureum have nice bright green/yellow leaves and mix well with the bluer-leaved cultivars. Sedum album (white flowering) in the red leaf cultivar would stand out well.
    I've got saxifages in the ligulatae group that are very dry tolerant and produce amazing sprays of flowers in spring https://www.kevockgarden.co.uk/plantlist/plant.asp?SKU=SCL&PlantName=Saxifraga_%27Canis-dalmatica%27&PlantorBulb=Plants
    I'd also try Erigeron karvinskianus (Mexican fleabane) as that seems to do well in small pockets of soil.



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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
     

    Don’t think there’s much that’ll grow there … some crocus bulbs might be ok there and give a splash of colour in the spring… but I don’t think that anything would survive there in the summer. Sorry 😢 

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  • BluejaywayBluejayway Posts: 392
    If Erigeron was happy there it would make a spectacular feature🥳👍
  • Southcoastgran34Southcoastgran34 Posts: 7
    Thank you all, you are brilliant. I love te sound of the erigeron and the other traiers. I have actually stuck a few house leeks in there but agree that they will become too heavy and no room for babies. 
    Fairies live at the bottom of my garden.
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