Growing alpine strawberries in a pot

I'm sure you would place it somewhere that crawling pests can't get to it. We have our strawberry pot on a wire stand but shelves are good too - and you would see the pot better! We have tiny wild alpine strawberries all over the garden, they have a lovely, quite sharp, flavour so I'm happy to leave them, unfortunately the birds and pests always get to them before I can pick them.

Lovely!

I've never grown Mara des Bois before but just planted some this spring into the ground, not a pot.

I'm sure there are some lovely cultivated Alpine strawberries of the smaller kind, it's just that ours grow wild everywhere; I'm forever digging them out of the flower beds.

Callistemon thanks very much for the input. I shall look for some suitable plants. The garden is very much a work in progress but I can get on with sorting out the pots.

(I don’t want to increase your pot but I also have their next size up strawberry pot and this beauty.)

Why would anyone want to get rid of wild alpine strawberries - so easy to transfer if in 'wrong' place and the most delicious ever.

Mine are flowering now I put the runners into the same pot to contain them. The pot has to be bigger to accommodate them.

I have pot

I would look for a good cultivated Alpine strawberry with berries that are much larger than the wild ones eg Fragaria vesca 'Mara des Bois', unless you really do want the very small berries.

The wild ones grow all over my garden, throwing out runners and are impossible to get rid of. I don't know where they came from.
They may be ok in a container.
Good luck!