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such as the small hollies are good, christmas box, any of the smaller euonymous, golden laurel  - lots of choices for pots, worth looking around some good web sites for what is on offer now. The reality is that you can grow anything in a pot as long as you

I'm new to this forum and you may have been asked this many times  but here goes .I use pots and containers and grow plants and a few veg in them . My problem is space so firstly  how long can i use the compost before it need changing and secondly i

are still underground with their scarves on. Be patient and be ready with the wildlife friendly ferrous sulphate slug pellets already scatterd where your hostas will emerge. My hostas aren't peeping up yet but daffs, primroses and pansys are in ful swing

!  The fence faces north east, getting the morning sun until about 11am at this time of year. Looking forward to your thoughts and suggestions - thank you! Lovely small tree is Cercis canadensis 'Forest pansy' Look on Mr Google for pics of it. Stunning

- osteospermum/petunia/pelargonium/buzy lizzie to name a few. That makes a great show.  If you don't have children as it's toxic, I'd look at Brugmansia..Angel trumpet, grows huge in a seaon & perfumed. But needs frost free conditions in the winter. Do you want something just for this year

(rotting tubers). I can't guarantee it will work every winter though, especially this one! I have some cyclamen in a pot that are looking poorly in the frost/snow/sleet is there any hope for them? Also same question for pansies?! Cyclamen hederifolium sp

there - perhaps daydreams of pottering in a smallish polytunnel should be made a reality next year! Pippa, I bought some pansy plug plants and i don't use chemicals. Potted them up to grow on window ledge before putting them in large containers. They are covered

hello everyone. last year we moved to a house with a nice size garden so we made a veg patch. we quite new to growing veg as before all we had room for things in the odd pot. the garden needed a bit of love cut back loads of out of control bushes

today with an Artemisia vulgaris 'Oriental Limelight'.  Back in the autumn I completely dug this thug of a plant out of a small bed so I could put winter pansies in its place.  I shoved all the roots in a carrier bag to put in the bin which then forgot

would be what kind of hardy, evergreen, flowering shrub would grow well in this size container and position? Ideally I could leave the container in position during the winter months too. I am a novice gardener (but trying to learn!) and would appreciate