Containing spreading plants
Hi all - I started a thread on possibly managing an Arum Lily's boggy water requirements by burying it in a bucket(!) and it led me on to another conundrum I've got a the mo as to how to control invasive plants. I've got / want:
Japanese Rose (Kerria Japonica)
Gooseneck (Lysimachia Clethroides)
Yellow Lysimachia (Punctata)
Japanese Anemone
- all of which I understand have adventurous root systems which prefer to run free rather than stay where I tell them. Would I have any success with planting them in large pots / buckets (with drainage holes this time - or the entrie bottom removed)?
Would the soil dry out / heat up quicker, and would the roots just go downwards a bit and then pop up as before? I think the Japanese rose is shallow rooted and I'd read the Japanese Anemone is too, so perhaps a 12"/30cm deep pot might just befuddle them enough to stay put.
So, I want eg a small stand of Japanese Rose about 30cm in diameter - could I dig a hole 30cmx30x30, knock the bottom out of a £1 B&Q plastic bucket and sink it, plant a few stems in that and save myself hours of chasing it round the garden?! Ditto all the others.
Very much welcome any thoughts!