"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2010-08-17 15:44:00 +0100, "Mr Pounder"
said:


"harry" wrote in message
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On 16 Aug, 17:25, "Mr Pounder" wrote:
Greetings all.

I am useless at gardening.

I would like to put one of those big stone plants pots in my back
garden
and
fill it with plants that will give me colour all year round. Perennial.

Nice simple suggestions appreciated.

Mr Pounder

There is no plant that will flower all year round. There are a couple
that fower in the not-so-cold parts of Winter eg Winter fowering
pansies. But you need to have different plants to flower in different
times of the year. It's a lot of work.You could use foliagy things
but they are quite boring.

Oh dear.
Thanks for the reply.
What about something that will be green in winter and something that will
flower for the best part of the summer?

Mr Pounder

Where do you live? I recommend Euryops chrysanthemoides as it flowers for
months on end and is evergreen but we lost it to bad frosts in a couple of
spots in our garden last year. In a pot you could easily protect it with
fleece. It will need potting on into a larger pot as it increases in size
but is otherwise terribly easy to grow as it stops itself and needs no
pruning.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

Lancashire.
Bad winter last year.
Thanks for the reply.

Mr Pounder