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Plant Pot - Reloaded
Thanks to all of the people that helped me.
What I did was to rip up a flower bed that never did much and put some pebbles down. The pebbles are all the way around my back lawn, the flower bed looked a bit out of place. Them pebbles don't come cheap! I moved an existing big stone plant pot that always seems to have green stuff and some sort of flowers growing out of it; I planted some crocus bulbs in there. This should give me some colour Feb - March. Thanks again for the help, pity all newsgroups aren't like this one. Mr Pounder |
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Plant Pot - Reloaded
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:02:43 +0100, "Mr Pounder"
wrote: Thanks to all of the people that helped me. What I did was to rip up a flower bed that never did much and put some pebbles down. The pebbles are all the way around my back lawn, the flower bed looked a bit out of place. Them pebbles don't come cheap! I moved an existing big stone plant pot that always seems to have green stuff and some sort of flowers growing out of it; I planted some crocus bulbs in there. This should give me some colour Feb - March. Thanks again for the help, pity all newsgroups aren't like this one. Mr Pounder With the aim of year-round colour, one thing I do may offer a solution. I've bought a reasonable quantity of (identical) large plastic plant pots with good drainage holes - about a foot in diameter and about a foot and a half deep (not your average flower pot). Then in my borders I've got various things planted in the ground and in between, I've dug holes and sunk some of the empty pots into them (with a few addedd drainage holes drilled in the bottom and the sides). Ditto in some of my tubs I've got a plant pot sunk into a hole. In an out of the way part of the garden, the rest of the pots are planted up with a range of things - some with lillies, some with spring bulbs, some with early flowering perennials, some with mid or late flowering ones. I've got chrysanthemums, dahlias, all sorts of things. Then, at the appropriate time of the year, a pot of plants gets put into the empty pot in the ground/tub. When the flowers have gone over, the pots go back into the "out of the way" area and new ones go into the ground/tubs. So I always have plants in bloom around the garden and in the winter, anything tender is easily put into the greenhouse (or wherever you can protect them). The only secret is don't use bog standard multi-purpose compost. I plant up the pots with a 60/40 mix of a high quality compost and John Innes No 3. If you can get pots that fit your plant pot this might be an easy way of having round the year colour without having to continually buy flowering plants from the garden centre. Cheers Jake |
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Plant Pot - Reloaded
"Mr Pounder" wrote ... Thanks to all of the people that helped me. What I did was to rip up a flower bed that never did much and put some pebbles down. The pebbles are all the way around my back lawn, the flower bed looked a bit out of place. Them pebbles don't come cheap! I moved an existing big stone plant pot that always seems to have green stuff and some sort of flowers growing out of it; I planted some crocus bulbs in there. This should give me some colour Feb - March. Thanks again for the help, pity all newsgroups aren't like this one. For year round colour you could always do what my next door neighbours have done in their front garden, let the weeds grow and flower, and fill the planters with plastic flowers, lovely! The back garden has metal painted flowers! Is that one step up? -- Regards Bob Hobden W.of London. UK |
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Plant Pot - Reloaded
"Bob Hobden" wrote in message ... "Mr Pounder" wrote ... Thanks to all of the people that helped me. What I did was to rip up a flower bed that never did much and put some pebbles down. The pebbles are all the way around my back lawn, the flower bed looked a bit out of place. Them pebbles don't come cheap! I moved an existing big stone plant pot that always seems to have green stuff and some sort of flowers growing out of it; I planted some crocus bulbs in there. This should give me some colour Feb - March. Thanks again for the help, pity all newsgroups aren't like this one. For year round colour you could always do what my next door neighbours have done in their front garden, let the weeds grow and flower, and fill the planters with plastic flowers, lovely! The back garden has metal painted flowers! Is that one step up? -- Regards Bob Hobden W.of London. UK I draw the line at plastic flowers, but I do have a metal scare cat. Scare cat does not work. Neither does my sonic go poo in your own garden cat deterrent. Anyway, the wife says that I have done very well indeed and that I have learnt much. I am quite pleased with myself. Mr Pounder |
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Plant Pot - Reloaded
"Jake" wrote in message news On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:02:43 +0100, "Mr Pounder" wrote: Thanks to all of the people that helped me. What I did was to rip up a flower bed that never did much and put some pebbles down. The pebbles are all the way around my back lawn, the flower bed looked a bit out of place. Them pebbles don't come cheap! I moved an existing big stone plant pot that always seems to have green stuff and some sort of flowers growing out of it; I planted some crocus bulbs in there. This should give me some colour Feb - March. Thanks again for the help, pity all newsgroups aren't like this one. Mr Pounder With the aim of year-round colour, one thing I do may offer a solution. I've bought a reasonable quantity of (identical) large plastic plant pots with good drainage holes - about a foot in diameter and about a foot and a half deep (not your average flower pot). Then in my borders I've got various things planted in the ground and in between, I've dug holes and sunk some of the empty pots into them (with a few addedd drainage holes drilled in the bottom and the sides). Ditto in some of my tubs I've got a plant pot sunk into a hole. In an out of the way part of the garden, the rest of the pots are planted up with a range of things - some with lillies, some with spring bulbs, some with early flowering perennials, some with mid or late flowering ones. I've got chrysanthemums, dahlias, all sorts of things. Then, at the appropriate time of the year, a pot of plants gets put into the empty pot in the ground/tub. When the flowers have gone over, the pots go back into the "out of the way" area and new ones go into the ground/tubs. So I always have plants in bloom around the garden and in the winter, anything tender is easily put into the greenhouse (or wherever you can protect them). The only secret is don't use bog standard multi-purpose compost. I plant up the pots with a 60/40 mix of a high quality compost and John Innes No 3. If you can get pots that fit your plant pot this might be an easy way of having round the year colour without having to continually buy flowering plants from the garden centre. Cheers Jake This is far too complicated for me, but thanks. Mr Pounder |
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