Thanks Bev and Lizzie. I try to do something different each year, but usually have some fuchsia as they are such good doers and they like either sun or shade. It's nearly time to start all over again can't wait.
Thankyou to Busy-Lizzie and Loveto garden the pictures are stunning. I have just been given a lovely stone pot and it is now ready for planting I wondered about a half standard tree with underplanting, has anyone tried this. The planting has to withstand very cold weather as I live in the north. Ideas would be welcome. My wish is for the pot to look attractive all year. Thank you inadvance for your help
A few years back I went on a one evening course at Petersham Nursery in Richmond to learn how to plant a winter pot. The two I planted when I got home are still going strong; the pots are 50cm; they each have a little conifer for height, about 45cm tall, there are layers of bulbs, some planted deep and some shallow, I think the principle was; large = deep and small= shallow. That first winter I had lovely white cyclamen but they all rotted, it was v. cold. The tulips in the pots are just coming through now, there is also variegated ivy trailing over the sides. After the tulips die back, I plant pale salmon pelagoniums and white bacopa; the small flowered one, I find the large flowered one does not do so well.
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Thanks Bev and Lizzie. I try to do something different each year, but usually have some fuchsia as they are such good doers and they like either sun or shade. It's nearly time to start all over again
can't wait.
Thankyou to Busy-Lizzie and Loveto garden the pictures are stunning. I have just been given a lovely stone pot and it is now ready for planting I wondered about a half standard tree with underplanting, has anyone tried this. The planting has to withstand very cold weather as I live in the north. Ideas would be welcome. My wish is for the pot to look attractive all year. Thank you inadvance for your help
A few years back I went on a one evening course at Petersham Nursery in Richmond to learn how to plant a winter pot. The two I planted when I got home are still going strong; the pots are 50cm; they each have a little conifer for height, about 45cm tall, there are layers of bulbs, some planted deep and some shallow, I think the principle was; large = deep and small= shallow. That first winter I had lovely white cyclamen but they all rotted, it was v. cold. The tulips in the pots are just coming through now, there is also variegated ivy trailing over the sides. After the tulips die back, I plant pale salmon pelagoniums and white bacopa; the small flowered one, I find the large flowered one does not do so well.
Loved the photos