Out the font in the sun mostly singular plantings - lilies, acidanthera, agapanthus, mints. Three roses under-planted with pansies, one mixed herb pot with rosemary, sage, thyme and summer savoury. The window boxes this year each have 5 chilies in them. By the front door I have two pots of variegated euonymus, pieris and ivy to be brightened up this afternoon with shocking ping pelargoniums. Up until recently they had deep red cyclamen which are now in their own pots waiting to go into the border.
Out the back which is north facing but gets plenty of light and full sun from 3pm, about 20 single hostas big and small, pots and troughs of fuchsias, a Japanese maple, a pineapple sage, parsley, white chives and ginger mint and some plants waiting to grow big enough to go in the borders - a young spiraea, a choisya, 4 clems, 3 roses, a golden rain tree and a gunnera.
If I do hanging baskets they tend to be trailing pelargoniums which are forgiving of neglect and easy to deadhead and keep flowering. Don't like the stickiness of petunias or fussy mixed plantings. If I had a sheltered garden I'd do frothy flowers but not mixed.
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I have a lot of blueberries in the back 2 hanging baskets in front with fuchsias trailing Geraniums and laurentia,3 tubs with snaps fuchsias and trailing geraniums
All the borders around my lawns, are stone, so I have to use pots and containers. Also, I dont have an outside tap, so water with a watering-can. I am retired, so have the time, and I love it.
A hosepipe at the front. Another at the back. Two water butts and a watering can for the acid lovers. It's therapeutic going round watering and talking to your plants and lets you check what needs feeding/dead heading etc.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
So interesting to hear what you are all growing - such a variety! Chicky, I love your group of pots - my favourite colours too! Has anyone else got photos of last summer's containers. The things I have permanently in pots are lilies, agapanthus, roses, hydrangea and clematis. I like to ring the changes with different plants and colours most summers. Last year my two pots of tuberous begonias were fantastic so I have bought more of those this year. Am also trying pelargoniums for the first time.
Lilies in pots. Daturas in pots. A large mandevilla (red). Some calla lilies.Cannas, A large banana. Some white flowered argyranthemums. I only have one thing in a pot,when it is done I swap them around. Also a few succulents such as aeoniums and echeverias.
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Out the font in the sun mostly singular plantings - lilies, acidanthera, agapanthus, mints. Three roses under-planted with pansies, one mixed herb pot with rosemary, sage, thyme and summer savoury. The window boxes this year each have 5 chilies in them. By the front door I have two pots of variegated euonymus, pieris and ivy to be brightened up this afternoon with shocking ping pelargoniums. Up until recently they had deep red cyclamen which are now in their own pots waiting to go into the border.
Out the back which is north facing but gets plenty of light and full sun from 3pm, about 20 single hostas big and small, pots and troughs of fuchsias, a Japanese maple, a pineapple sage, parsley, white chives and ginger mint and some plants waiting to grow big enough to go in the borders - a young spiraea, a choisya, 4 clems, 3 roses, a golden rain tree and a gunnera.
If I do hanging baskets they tend to be trailing pelargoniums which are forgiving of neglect and easy to deadhead and keep flowering. Don't like the stickiness of petunias or fussy mixed plantings. If I had a sheltered garden I'd do frothy flowers but not mixed.
looks lovely,Chicky
Chicky, thats so pretty and cheerful!
Where do you all find the time to water all these pots, never mind the inclination and the tyranny of having to do it every day?
All the borders around my lawns, are stone, so I have to use pots and containers. Also, I dont have an outside tap, so water with a watering-can. I am retired, so have the time, and I love it.
A hosepipe at the front. Another at the back. Two water butts and a watering can for the acid lovers. It's therapeutic going round watering and talking to your plants and lets you check what needs feeding/dead heading etc.
So interesting to hear what you are all growing - such a variety! Chicky, I love your group of pots - my favourite colours too! Has anyone else got photos of last summer's containers. The things I have permanently in pots are lilies, agapanthus, roses, hydrangea and clematis. I like to ring the changes with different plants and colours most summers. Last year my two pots of tuberous begonias were fantastic so I have bought more of those this year. Am also trying pelargoniums for the first time.
Lilies in pots. Daturas in pots. A large mandevilla (red). Some calla lilies.Cannas, A large banana. Some white flowered argyranthemums. I only have one thing in a pot,when it is done I swap them around. Also a few succulents such as aeoniums and echeverias.