Summer Container Garden, Patio Pots, Dahlia Companions // Cottoverdi
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- Опубликовано: 6 июн 2024
- Today I’m planting up the patio containers that will join my patio dahlias this summer. I’m using perennials, bedding annuals and plants that I’ve grown from seed.
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Good idea to put a pot in a pot. One of my favourite gardening jobs is planting up the summer containers and hanging baskets. This year has been awful for slugs and snails and like you, I've lost a lot of plants. So annoying when you've been looking after them and they get decimated overnight. Can't wait to see your containers in full bloom as they look gorgeous already..
Thanks Wendy - why is it that containers are so much fun?! I thoroughly enjoy myself whenever I get the chance to plant some up 😁
Your pots are going to look gorgeous Annette....love them.....looking forward to seeing them later in summer ☀️.....TFS 🌺🌺🌺👌X
Thanks so much Isobel 😊🪴
Thanks - another lovely visit
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you 😊🪴
Love your videos ,the obedient plant you can move the flowers around on the stem face them in the direction u want and they will stay there .
Ah, thanks Kelly. That sounds so much fun - I will need to try it as soon as they flower! 😁
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you that your Heliotrope blooms. I had one on my patio here in Connecticut, USA and it smells wonderfully of vanilla and almonds, just like a cherry pie! Butterflies love it as well.
Oh, brilliant, Tim. Thanks, it sounds lovely and I really do hope mine survives! 😁
Moss would like nice Annette , I bought some of Etsy for 8 hanging baskets and the lengths were so short I couldn’t keep the moss in place , so used at base of pots . ❤ lovely plants to look forward too x
Great idea!! Thanks 😁
They will look absolutely gorgeous! I love the way white flowers glow in the evening. I have lots of volunteer Rose Campion (Lychnis), so you've given me the idea to pot some up. Mine seed themselves everywhere; even in the crushed granite between my patio's stone slabs!
Thanks so much Mary. Yes, I have so much Lychis too - that's why I thought I'd use some - super drought tolerant too!
Hi Annette, great video. The heliotrope should be pinched out when the seedlings are young as antirrhinums and cosmos, but your plant looks quite bushy I think..I have a whole 'hedge' of oregano, flanking my border- just love the fragrance. I have planted up my patio pots with Setaria and coleus. I also have a Miscanthus and 4 Cannas, and balcony planters filled with begonias- loys of tropical colour.. The furniture is dark rattan so it has a quite Carribbean feel. It looks out onto my grasses circle, which has a black birdbath to the centre of it. I think the common name for Lychnis Coronaria could be rose campion? I hope to finish the pots off over the weekend. The flagstone patio is planted with Hostas, white hydrangeas , cool greens and whites as it is in shade. Happy gardening, have a great weekend 🙂 x
Hi Be, thank you so much. Thanks for the tip about the Heliotrope - I'll be brave and pinch out the top.
Yes, Lychnis is Rose Campion - why do I sometimes find it easier to remember the botanical names? 🤣 Your garden sounds absolutely amazing - maybe you could make a RUclips video? I bet everyone would love it. 😊🥰
Obedient plant gets its name from the fact that you can push the flowers around the stem and they will stay put. It is a native prairie flower where I live, and it can get quite aggressive in the garden as it spreads through rhizomes. I have it in my backyard prairie patch and it will push everything else out of if I let it, definitely not obedient in that respect.
I thought it called obedient plant because the flowers grow true north , east, south and west.
Thanks so much for the info - I had no idea! They really sound like so much fun - I'm definitely going to have to give that a try! 😁
Hi Annette.. I love calibrachoas too and last year I didnt clear out my pots and in early spring I notice some growth on what appears like twigs.. I was so surprised to see them come back.. This year I ordered more calibrachoas plugs in every colour they had.. I live in London, UK..So a heads up, dont be too hasty to clear out the pots, as they do come back if the winter is not too severe..
Oooh. That sounds good - I've never thought of trying to keep them over winter - I will certainly give that a try because it gets £££ when we have to keep buying new ones each year! 😊
Beautiful pots and plant selections, They are the bees knees.
So nice of you, thanks Nicholas 🪴😊
All those containers are going to look great on your patio, I hope you give us a little tour once they start blooming.
Thanks Jane. Yes, that is definitely the plan - I'm so looking forward to seeing everything in bloom 😊🌸
Hi Annette, I really enjoyed your pots being filled. I know I'll probably revisit this video to get ideas for plants in the future. I've used every large pot and still need more because I am growing peppers, tomatoes, and other things, as well as flowers. My garden takes ages to tidy up each year. Thanks for the video, it was lovely as usual. X
Hi Jimmy, thank you so much. I, too, feel like I need more pots!! 😁
Hi Annette..Physostegia is called obedient plant because you can actually move the single flowers in the spike and actually place them in a specific position.
Thanks! I had no idea!! Sounds like so much fun - I will have to give it a try as soon as they start to flower 😁🌸
I just love making containers too. Thank you for the inspiration!
Thanks Carol. Containers are so much fun and can be incredibly versatile so I love them too 😊🪴
Oh I'm finally ahead of you. Pirs have been planted up for 3 weeks now and are going great guns. Petunias - deep purple, queen of hearts, glowing pink, raspberry ripple and some other freebies we got our hands on along with geraniums and pale blue lobelia --- will be planting some creepingbred thym between slabs this weekend and I'm gonna order some Erigeron karvinskianus to poke in around an old wall and round the doorstep which has been overtaken by wild mallow 😮 - and those rhizomes don't come out of nooks and crannies easily. Good luck with your pots and slugs. I had an idea and it works great. Use an old paint brush and paint neat cheap washing up liquid round the bottom 6 inches on the pots. They've tried to climb up them but they recoil and fall off foaming at the mouth 🤣 and they also die. Love the video such a beautiful walled garden ❤
Ha, Adam - that's funny. Yes, I am behind - the dahlias have literally taken over my life and we're still planting them this weekend - they really do need to get in the ground!
Thanks for the slug tip - not heard of that one before but it definitely sounds feasible - thank you! 😁
What a nightmare spring for slugs and snails this has been hasn’t it ? Many of my baby plants have been decimated in a way I’ve never seen before.
Gosh, yes, it's been awful - the worst year I've ever known 😬 I bought 6 Salvia Amistads and only 1 is still alive!!!
Hi Annette, At the beginning of your video, What are the pink flowers just below the White Bird feeder? Love your videos.
Hi Gary, I may have answered this already (If so, apologies), The pink flowers are sweet Williams (I think Newport Pink)grown from seed about 18 months ago, also, a David Austin rose called Harlow Carr. The palest pink flowers at the front are a speciality butterfly ranunculus called Ariadne. 😁
What a beautiful selection of plants, Annette! It’ll look gorgeous. Will you hook these up to drip or will you just hand water them? Also, please may I ask where you got your birdcage bird feeder from? I’ve been scouring the internet for pretty bird feeders, but haven’t found any nice ones. Would love to find one similar to yours ❤
Thanks Elie. I will probably hand water them - We've found that the drip irrigation becomes a nuisance in these pots because we like to be able to move them off the patio when the tulips go over and if they're hooked up to an irrigation system, we can't do that.
I can;t remember where we Gott he feeder from - it may have been a Christmas market a few years ago. It's cute looking but not that great because the food tends to get very wet so we can't use fat balls in it and it needs cleaning out a LOT!
I'd like to find one with a larger cover over it....
Love your pots. You mentioned something about wire something goes rampant in the garden. I have these skinny hard little worms i often find them under my pots. Do you know how to get rid of them. Please
I think I was talking about the plant called a Wire Vine - I've been told that it goes mad in the garden so to be careful where I plant it (I've kept mine in containers). Are the skinny hard worms black in colour? If so, I have these in my garden too but I don't think they do any harm - well, not that I've noticed. I think they're called Portuguese millipedes and I don't worry about them. 😊