What’s Growing In My Container Garden NOW!-All grown in POTS…

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Growing in containers is the BEST way of adding a garden to areas of your garden with no ground for planting in. This corner of my garden was ALL concrete and nothing grew here.

So I decided to try growing a garden only using containers and raised planters and i will say that this year is my favourite display yet!

There are a lot of misconceptions about growing in pots. You don’t have to replant them every year, they don’t always need a lot of watering and they can be really low maintenance.

So here we go, this is my end of summer container garden and isn’t it looking amazing?

The key to getting it to look FULL and with lots of variety is including lots of different variety. You want to combine climbers, annuals, perennials, shrubs, grasses and even trees.

The perennials in pots just stay in the pots until they outgrow them and need dividing.

I mulch my pots with well rotted horse manure annually, just like I do with my borders. Having healthy soil is key to success.

Do you grow in containers?

Every year I create a different display and I am already planning next years display with a totally different colour scheme.

Did you know that I teach beginner gardening over at my Grow Club? I have an online gardening course for beginner gardeners and it includes a whole course about to create a container garden from scratch.

Let me know if there is anything more you would like to see. Thanks for watching.

Sophie xx

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You all know that my container garden is one of my favorite places for just impact and color and every single season it brings me joy. But what I wanted to say is that at the moment I’m not going to be adding or making any changes. So everything that is in the container garden now will kind of see me through autumn. So I’ve got plenty of variety. I’ve got some perennials. I’ve got my gorgeous ders. I’ve got the things that I’ve grown from seed this year. So all of that will just keep on going until the frost. So I’m not even thinking about adding anything there. And then the thing I think that people can’t get their head around is that I don’t empty all the pots at the end of the season. So I’ve got some fantastic perennials which have been in those pots for many years. So actually all I do when they finished at the end of the season is just go and put the pot somewhere out of sight and completely forget about it. until spring. When spring comes, I will then, that’s if I haven’t done it in the winter, add a bit of mulch, so add some organic matter, well-rotted horse manure, something like that, just to really add some nutrients back into that soil. And then when your new growth starts to emerge, you’ve then got a pot already ready to go. Um, so my container garden is huge. I’ve got loads of plants in it, but it just does its own thing. So don’t think, oh gosh, I’ve got to take all my perennials out and plant all my bulbs. I don’t do that. So I have certain pots which are just allocated to those perennials and I just leave them there all the time. And that is really how you can bulk up your container garden by adding things with a really long period of interest. You can add shrubs, you can add climbers, add variety. And actually, it’s the perfect time if you haven’t even done that yet to be thinking about it. And you will have seen in my container garden this year that I had lots of perennials which I had said to you, I just added as cutings and little divisions from my garden. So as you start to make changes in your garden and maybe take cutings, maybe do some some dividing this autumn, then save a little bit and put it in a pot and have it in your container garden and it will just add a whole different dimension. So, I’m going to flip you around and talk you through some of the plants that are looking amazing. Um, where they came from and what I’m going to be doing with them this autumn. So, as you can see, the September container garden is full. It’s bursting. It’s wafty. It’s everything I dreamed it would be last year because I went for different plants, different colors, and just didn’t love it. Um, and the best thing about the container garden this year, like I have said, is that it cost me very little money. The only sort of extra color that I added for the year is always my annuals. So, my bedding plants. So, we’ve got patunia bubbles, some geraniums. Um, so that instant sort of color um I did add, but the majority of this will just stay in the pot. So, I will talk you through all of the different elements. So, in this pot here is an amazing star jasmine, which I actually bought in the sale in the winter. My garden center had a special offer on um and it was huge and it was 25 quid. And then in the bottom of that pot I added a tiny cutting of geranium rosan just to give me something to go at the base of that pot. So it cost me nothing. It’s worked amazingly well. Then in this pot here I have got Emma Bridgewater David Austin rose. That’s just one rose in a pot. went in in the autumn actually at bare root season um kind of planting time and it’s done amazingly well and that will just live in that pot. It’s got lots of butts on it. It’s very happy, very healthy, so I don’t have to worry or even think about that. So when it is winter, I’ll move that pot off the decking just to give the decking a bit of a break. Um and I’ll put it back in place in the spring because you won’t believe it, but a rose will actually start to leaf up and look pretty good around March time. So incorporating that into your um display for spring is perfect. So that’s what I mean when I say think about all of the extra bits that you can be adding to your bulbs. So it’s not all about bulbs. It’s not all about planting hundreds of bulbs. It’s about what can you add to your display that you’ve already got that’s not going to cost you anything extra. So that is a winner. Um I’ve then got a little bit of a rigin around here. That was just one that I grew from seed in a little pot. And again, that is just easy, easy planted flowers the whole year. Um, grow it from seed. Amazing addition. Um, let’s have a look. I’ve also noticed in there tucked away is a little um, GM. So, that did its thing earlier on in the year. And then I’ve got a really big pot um, full of NPA cat. All of that was cutings and I planted it in the pot in October last year and that’s just going to stay in there. It’s just going to stay as a pot. So that is one pot for the whole of next season done. So when you break it down like this, do you see what I mean? It really is much easier than you think. This Salvia Amistad, it’s a really pretty one. It’s sort of a little bit two-toned. That’s been in that pot for 2 years. Very happy. I don’t have to do anything with that. And that will go almost all the way till Christmas. That’s a really late flowering one. So again, I just move the pot in and out of the display. Don’t have to think about that. Job done. Um ders. Now when my ders come to an end, which will be around the time of the frosts, um the ders come out and I do then use those pots for um spring bulbs. So that is a really good swap. So what I tend to do is ders and bedding plants then become the pots for the bulbs. Um and everything else stays the same. So you can kind of see that. Um then I’ve got an agistache. I’ve got some salvia that I had grown from seed. I’ve got an arrantia which actually was just from cutings. Um so all of these things can just stay put in the pot. I’ve got this lovely that was just a tiny little cutting that I put in a pot with something else. Um then I’ve got cosmos annual. This lovely climate is Thumbersia. Um and it’s an annual but I will definitely definitely grow it again next year because it was so easy. I didn’t grow it from seed. I bought it as a plug and it has been incredible. So I probably think I’ll have that in my garden for many many years cuz I love it so much. Um and then this side we’ve got a grass sedum delphinium. So this is the second flourish. So they very much feature in my spring display as well. And then all of these annual bedding plants that I said about so they get planted up around late April May time and they just go all the way till the frost. So you can see that when you’re planting the right things it really does do you the whole season. And then as I squirm my way through here, verbina, that was just a cutting. This flocks, this has probably been in a pot for maybe 3 or 4 years. This was just a division that’s got really nice and big. Um I’ve got a clatus in there. I’ve got a clatus over there. And then um agistache. This was grown from seed. Looks very soggy now. Argaretum. That salvia and that creeping Jenny have been in that pot for three years. But actually that salvia’s got really really big now. So I’m going to swap it out for something else. But hopefully you can see oh gosh by looking at it like that that actually I have got nothing to do here in September because all of this is going to see me through. It probably will see me through most of October as well. And as things really start to fade and look a bit rubbishy, I will just move the pots out of the display. So, the display will maybe start to get slower, um, smaller because I don’t need to have everything on the display. Um, but really, it’s just a case of swapping things and just moving the pots out of sight. So, very, very, very low maintenance. So, when you really look at what I’ve got in this um container garden, it could be that when you’re plant shopping and you’re looking for bargains that if you’re wanting to create a similar sort of display that really it could be that you get yourself an aa in the sale or you get yourself a flock or you get some salvia and just allocate a pot to it and that is just the pot it’s going to live in. And it really, really, really helps you to create amazing displays with very little effort. And they don’t have to be expensive at all.