I'm having to put a lot in pots or odd containers this year due to neighbours trees having grown so much that a larger part of this small garden is now in more shade this year than in past years. The beds are crammed with perennials so I managed to also get some old wooden wine crate type boxes to plant sunflowers, geums and wildflowers in. They're slatted boxes so I've lined them with empty plastic compost bags. I'm going simple with the tiny pots this year and probably a big sickly putting single bright plants into small blue glazed pots.
I'm having a love affair for small traditional plants, just for the colour.
These are Diascia 'Apple Blossom (Imp) on the left. Middle is Nemesia 'Berry White'. The begonia is 'Peardrops' - I have a couple in hanging baskets as well as I'm told they trail well.
I have a tiny little gravelly herb patch but I put herbs in a couple of small tin baths. This one has two of the citrus scented geraniums, rosemary in the middle, pineapple mint middle front and I've stuck in a couple of trailing lobelia just to fill and give a change of colour.
I've had to put my scabious in pots this year - perhaps stupidly I've put them in a couple of tall pots - but it's so that I can stick them in the borders amongst perennials which will go back by mid summer - so they are gap fillers to give a tiny bit of height in amongst what's there already.
I just bought this so haven't decided where to put it yet - I loved the colour on the label so I'm still thinking about making up a pot with this in. Maybe with a grass of some kind.
I have to put a lot in pots. I have about 30 of them this year because of the shade problem so I need to be able to move them around the garden as summer prolongs (or when it starts here in Scotland). I have a lot of Dianthus and Pinks in the pots. I've gone mad for Diascia as a filler this year so have a red dianthus with Diascia 'Strawberry'. They're such lovely delicate little things which will fill out well. I also have the Alan Titchmarsh pinks - hadn't realised they grew so very tall - in pots just with trailing lobelia in with them. And I have Arctic white on their own in pots. I like to have all the scented little pots near my bench at the back door which is in dappled shade.
Not very imaginative or arty my pots, but I'm getting all gooey over little delicate flowers and scent this year. I'm determined this year to have some success with Scarlet Flax - I always end up with them drowned in rain and falling over. So I have a little tin bath full of wildflower mix and scarlet flax, and terracotta pots with Scarlet Flax, cornflowers, Emilia Irish Poet, poppies. It's been such a dull year so far weather-ways that I think I'm trying to overcompensate with colour! Dark glasses will likely be needed by August! But I will be very happy.
My really big pots have different grasses, pelargoniums I put in pots on their own maybe with a few petunia trailers, trailing verbena. All pretty standard things I think. It's about as creative as I get.
I plant up a couple of tall (18 inch) black pots with colourful begonias, fuchsias etc and stand them in flowerbeds amidst the shrubs, just to add a spot of seasonal colour with height. The black pots "disappear" in the shrubs unlike terracotta would. It's the height that I like as most annuals tend to be low. I know you can get Cosmos, Lupins, foxgloves etc but they tend to have shorter flowering periods than the full blouse-y annuals.
Wow yarrow2, what a great contribution to this thread! Lovely to have all the pics with such detailed information about the plants I shall have to look out for some old tin baths!
Ericsmum, I've just put 3 black plastic pots of lilium regale into spaces in my border. I bury them about 2 inches into the soil so they don't get blown over.
I've got baskets with Primulas in the center surrounded by patunia's (different colours) around the outside. Trough of sweet peas at the back with mixed nasturions in the front (bet I never spelled that right?)
I don't really consider myself a container gardener but now I think about it I do have a lot of containers. It's because I like to have plants everywhere and containers are a good use of space. They are a lot of faff but with my garden being quite young I don't have much height and as my garden narrows away from the house I seem to have a lot of fence to look at
I've got 12 flower pouches on the fence with lobelia and I'm growing sanvitalia for the top but they aren't looking amazing so I might put something else in...have 6 flower pouches on top of my hen house with lobelia and petunia (trying to make it look like a little chalet). I'm trying sunflower vanilla ice in some larger pots and marigolds in some others as they always get eaten in the ground.
I've baskets along my fence too with nasturtium which I'm trying for the first time, an orange one that I believe is trailing and a dwarf red one, mixed them up with nemesia that I grew from seed for the first time, red petunia and some tall snaps. Also got drainpipe pots and chimney pots with the same also a couple of pelargoniums.
My hanging baskets were a disgrace last year, I think rubbish compost, not much feeding & watering This year I've grown trailing s/peas for them and mixed with some bought petunias. Also grew pink salvia for the top but they're a bit sad and weather damaged...
Perennial wise, I'm testing nepeta in pots too as previous plants got destroyed in the ground, mixed them with orange snapdragons.
I love container gardening, big, bright and blousy.
These are not this years obviously, I havent even started planting up this, bit late, couldnt get on earlier sowing the seeds and cuttings, but getting there now
I hadnt bought any of these plants, all seeds and cuttings.
,
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I am all container gardening as we have dogs and foster dogs so everything in the garden has to be a certain height away from cocking legs. We grow veg, fruit, all in pots and also a couple of raised beds.
Hostas (free ones from the mag) they are looking Ok at the moment not grown them before.
Copper tape seems to have kept the slugs at bay so far.
Thes planters have foxglove pink illumination, trailing fuchsia Bella Rosella, trailing verbena and nepeta.
The log has a variety of alpines that I can't remember at the moment and the posts in front have trailing geraniums in them.
I have two of these planters either side of the conservatory doors. The box came from tiny seedlings that I allowed to grow in the garden. I shaped them this year and transfered them to the containers, they still need to thicken up. Added Diascia Juliet, Verbena, Nemesia Berry White, Helichrysum Gold and Osteospermums (really wanted the purple eyed ones but ordered the wrong ones).
My old kitchen sink contains a variety of alpines and the green pots contain a mixture of the plants listed above plus pelargoniums Burgundy Red. The tall urn contains clematis Parisienne
The hanging baskets contain a mixture of the above plants (still need to fill out quite a bit).I think there are some petunia Daddy F1 in them also (not sure about these as I find them a bit sticky - think someone mentioned it before.
This odd planter was the base of a fountain (I think) that I picked up at a GC for £20 its bigger than it looks in the photo and contains clematis macropetala Snowbird.
I also have three other clematis in planters.
Two cone boxes either side of the front door, and
These planters in the front garden (last years picture) have been planted up the same except I have used Rubra ornamental grass instead of Coleus.
Oh also have two half barrels of sweet peas (the chelsea collection from Eagle Sweet Peas)
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I'm having to put a lot in pots or odd containers this year due to neighbours trees having grown so much that a larger part of this small garden is now in more shade this year than in past years. The beds are crammed with perennials so I managed to also get some old wooden wine crate type boxes to plant sunflowers, geums and wildflowers in. They're slatted boxes so I've lined them with empty plastic compost bags. I'm going simple with the tiny pots this year and probably a big sickly putting single bright plants into small blue glazed pots.
I'm having a love affair for small traditional plants, just for the colour.
These are Diascia 'Apple Blossom (Imp) on the left. Middle is Nemesia 'Berry White'. The begonia is 'Peardrops' - I have a couple in hanging baskets as well as I'm told they trail well.
I have a tiny little gravelly herb patch but I put herbs in a couple of small tin baths. This one has two of the citrus scented geraniums, rosemary in the middle, pineapple mint middle front and I've stuck in a couple of trailing lobelia just to fill and give a change of colour.
I've had to put my scabious in pots this year - perhaps stupidly I've put them in a couple of tall pots - but it's so that I can stick them in the borders amongst perennials which will go back by mid summer - so they are gap fillers to give a tiny bit of height in amongst what's there already.
I just bought this so haven't decided where to put it yet - I loved the colour on the label so I'm still thinking about making up a pot with this in. Maybe with a grass of some kind.
I have to put a lot in pots. I have about 30 of them this year because of the shade problem so I need to be able to move them around the garden as summer prolongs (or when it starts here in Scotland). I have a lot of Dianthus and Pinks in the pots. I've gone mad for Diascia as a filler this year so have a red dianthus with Diascia 'Strawberry'. They're such lovely delicate little things which will fill out well. I also have the Alan Titchmarsh pinks - hadn't realised they grew so very tall - in pots just with trailing lobelia in with them. And I have Arctic white on their own in pots. I like to have all the scented little pots near my bench at the back door which is in dappled shade.
Not very imaginative or arty my pots, but I'm getting all gooey over little delicate flowers and scent this year. I'm determined this year to have some success with Scarlet Flax - I always end up with them drowned in rain and falling over. So I have a little tin bath full of wildflower mix and scarlet flax, and terracotta pots with Scarlet Flax, cornflowers, Emilia Irish Poet, poppies. It's been such a dull year so far weather-ways that I think I'm trying to overcompensate with colour! Dark glasses will likely be needed by August! But I will be very happy.
My really big pots have different grasses, pelargoniums I put in pots on their own maybe with a few petunia trailers, trailing verbena. All pretty standard things I think. It's about as creative as I get.
I plant up a couple of tall (18 inch) black pots with colourful begonias, fuchsias etc and stand them in flowerbeds amidst the shrubs, just to add a spot of seasonal colour with height. The black pots "disappear" in the shrubs unlike terracotta would. It's the height that I like as most annuals tend to be low. I know you can get Cosmos, Lupins, foxgloves etc but they tend to have shorter flowering periods than the full blouse-y annuals.
Wow yarrow2, what a great contribution to this thread! Lovely to have all the pics with such detailed information about the plants
I shall have to look out for some old tin baths!
Ericsmum, I've just put 3 black plastic pots of lilium regale into spaces in my border. I bury them about 2 inches into the soil so they don't get blown over.
I've got baskets with Primulas in the center surrounded by patunia's (different colours) around the outside. Trough of sweet peas at the back with mixed nasturions in the front (bet I never spelled that right?)
Not to worry Landlubber, we all know what you mean
I don't really consider myself a container gardener but now I think about it I do have a lot of containers.
It's because I like to have plants everywhere and containers are a good use of space. They are a lot of faff but with my garden being quite young I don't have much height and as my garden narrows away from the house I seem to have a lot of fence to look at
I've got 12 flower pouches on the fence with lobelia and I'm growing sanvitalia for the top but they aren't looking amazing so I might put something else in...have 6 flower pouches on top of my hen house with lobelia and petunia (trying to make it look like a little chalet
). I'm trying sunflower vanilla ice in some larger pots and marigolds in some others as they always get eaten in the ground.
I've baskets along my fence too with nasturtium which I'm trying for the first time, an orange one that I believe is trailing and a dwarf red one, mixed them up with nemesia that I grew from seed for the first time, red petunia and some tall snaps. Also got drainpipe pots and chimney pots with the same also a couple of pelargoniums.
My hanging baskets were a disgrace last year, I think rubbish compost, not much feeding & watering
This year I've grown trailing s/peas for them and mixed with some bought petunias. Also grew pink salvia for the top but they're a bit sad and weather damaged...
Perennial wise, I'm testing nepeta in pots too as previous plants got destroyed in the ground, mixed them with orange snapdragons.
Long post, sorry
I love container gardening, big, bright and blousy.
These are not this years obviously, I havent even started planting up this, bit late, couldnt get on earlier sowing the seeds and cuttings, but getting there now
I hadnt bought any of these plants, all seeds and cuttings.
,
I am all container gardening as we have dogs and foster dogs so everything in the garden has to be a certain height away from cocking legs. We grow veg, fruit, all in pots and also a couple of raised beds.
Lyn, fantastic display! Beginnergardner, lovely hostas!
Mixed bag this year in my containers
Hostas (free ones from the mag) they are looking Ok at the moment not grown them before.
Copper tape seems to have kept the slugs at bay so far.
Thes planters have foxglove pink illumination, trailing fuchsia Bella Rosella, trailing verbena and nepeta.
The log has a variety of alpines that I can't remember at the moment and the posts in front have trailing geraniums in them.
I have two of these planters either side of the conservatory doors. The box came from tiny seedlings that I allowed to grow in the garden. I shaped them this year and transfered them to the containers, they still need to thicken up. Added Diascia Juliet, Verbena, Nemesia Berry White, Helichrysum Gold and Osteospermums (really wanted the purple eyed ones but ordered the wrong ones).
My old kitchen sink contains a variety of alpines and the green pots contain a mixture of the plants listed above plus pelargoniums Burgundy Red. The tall urn contains clematis Parisienne
The hanging baskets contain a mixture of the above plants (still need to fill out quite a bit).I think there are some petunia Daddy F1 in them also (not sure about these as I find them a bit sticky - think someone mentioned it before.
This odd planter was the base of a fountain (I think) that I picked up at a GC for £20 its bigger than it looks in the photo and contains clematis macropetala Snowbird.
I also have three other clematis in planters.
Two cone boxes either side of the front door, and
These planters in the front garden (last years picture) have been planted up the same except I have used Rubra ornamental grass instead of Coleus.
Oh also have two half barrels of sweet peas (the chelsea collection from Eagle Sweet Peas)
Sorry about the long post.