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Chimney pots
bulkerb
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Well who says you can't get something for nothing got these beautiful pots from a free cycler yesterday any ideas on plants to put in them 
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My new garden needs more features in it to finish making it look lovely
I have a couple of chimney pots I use as planters. I bought terracotta saucers to sit them on and 2 of mine have lilies in and the other smaller one a fushia.
When I was a kid we had one with Dianthus in it - seemed to like it there!
I had some in a previous garden. I did as Pansy suggests, using plastic pots that lodge inside. In the summer I used pelargoniums and trailing lobelias, and in the winter I layered spring bulbs with Tete a Tete daffs and muscari, and some trailing small leaved variegated ivy trailing down the sides. I removed and kept the winter ones in a shady corner during the summer and they lasted several years without replanting.
Another plant that works well for chimney pots is a trailing nasturtium. The orange ones look great with the red terracotta pots, and the deeper red nasturtiums look really good with creamy coloured or blackish ones.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I wedge a plastic saucer a little way down and then put a terracotta pot on top. I have some unglazed decorative ones which look quite good. It's easy to swap them around too.