Could anyone suggest, please some flowers and plants for pots- nothing
tall, and something able to tolerate a dry spell. I can't walk about very
well, and so cant carry watering can easily. Would also like something with
coloured foliage. This garden sees the early a.m. sun near house, a lot of
south sun to about 5.p.m. and some later afternoon onto the end of the
garden until sun goes down... East Midlands area.

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May wrote:
Could anyone suggest, please some flowers and plants for pots- nothing
tall, and something able to tolerate a dry spell. I can't walk about very
well, and so cant carry watering can easily. Would also like something with
coloured foliage. This garden sees the early a.m. sun near house, a lot of
south sun to about 5.p.m. and some later afternoon onto the end of the
garden until sun goes down... East Midlands area.

Herbs is good as Janet suggested but you could also have flowers, like
lambs ears (Stachys) either white or deep pink; Sedum is happy in pots
and you get lots of colour varieties; grasses are also very good like
Miscanthus (the zebra one), Imperata (red baron with bright red
alternate leaves), an Aucuba (a bay leaf green with yellow dots and
berries in autumn); perhaps a Ceonothus (californian lilac). All these
I have in pots for years and they are easy to look after - some are
also evergreen. I also often throw a handfull of wild flower seeds in a
pot which was used for seedlings and add gravels, it looks like a mini
meadow and is so easy to just forget and is rather wild looking and
lovely. All these can be neglected, a little, are pets proof and
tolerate dry spells.