Heres my collection of chimney pots and rhubarb forcers - use them for summer annuals, and plant in plastic pots slotted in the top. They need watering every day - but so do the rest of my pots, so that's not too big a deal.
Bit difficult to see, but there are two chimney pots and two forcers in their somewhere - all picked up years ago at reclamation yards (so not Dove's !!)
Just googled best plants for chimney pots and guess what came up.....this thread
Love Dove's idea of various pots for inside , that's a great idea and love Chicky's pits.....any more ideas gratefully received (I've not even won the pot yet!!!)
I've got 6 of the plainest type, maybe just over a foot tall which I found in the garden when I moved in.
Last year I put snap dragons in but this year went more complicated with hyacinths planted last autumn and then swapped them with argyranthemums (sp?) which are in now. I wish I'd thought of the inside pot swapping thing as the hyacinths just wouldn't die but the args were all ready and flowering.
I decided to go crazy next year and put in perennials instead: nepeta and tequila sunrise geum, alternating but I will see if I can fit plastic pots inside and do the bulb thing too.
Ive filled mine up halfway with a carrier bag of rubble to stop the compost coming out. Skanky but it works
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They were direct on the ground - no saucers - with plastic pots lodged inside them.
Sometimes they'd have lots of little pots gathered around their bases with pretty little plants in - auriculas, pansies, daisies etc.
Didn't think you were the ex's new wife - she doesn't wear blue tee shirts - but she has my chimneypots
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Heres my collection of chimney pots and rhubarb forcers - use them for summer annuals, and plant in plastic pots slotted in the top. They need watering every day - but so do the rest of my pots, so that's not too big a deal.
Bit difficult to see, but there are two chimney pots and two forcers in their somewhere - all picked up years ago at reclamation yards (so not Dove's !!)
that looks so pretty chicky
Just googled best plants for chimney pots and guess what came up.....this thread
Love Dove's idea of various pots for inside , that's a great idea and love Chicky's pits.....any more ideas gratefully received (I've not even won the pot yet!!!)
I've got 6 of the plainest type, maybe just over a foot tall which I found in the garden when I moved in.
Last year I put snap dragons in but this year went more complicated with hyacinths planted last autumn and then swapped them with argyranthemums (sp?) which are in now. I wish I'd thought of the inside pot swapping thing as the hyacinths just wouldn't die but the args were all ready and flowering.
I decided to go crazy next year and put in perennials instead: nepeta and tequila sunrise geum, alternating but I will see if I can fit plastic pots inside and do the bulb thing too.
Ive filled mine up halfway with a carrier bag of rubble to stop the compost coming out. Skanky but it works
Ok....I just posted and it's not here????
Anyway, what I said was I hadn't thought of hyacinths and my mum bought me some so may put some of those in with alliums that came yesterday.
I also said I love Geums
Are they the GW alliums by any chance? I ordered some and wondered when they'd be dispatched.
Yes they are, they arrived yesterday