Help!!

Terracotta is very pricey. I have few gathered over the years but also some frost proof ceramic and some very stylish grey ones which are plastic and look much more pricey than they were (also easier to move). I got them online from Dobies. Just make sure you buy frost proof, not frost resistant.

Terracotta is pricey and, unless it is frost proof can tend to split or pieces flake off.

Can I recommend Bacupa. I was surprised to hear Monty Don say on Gardeners World say he’d planted it for the first time this year. It’s evergreen but the little white flowers come back each summer. I thought it was an annual but realised it survived the winter. I have mine in an old chimney pot. I also have Skimmia in pots ( they need ericacious soil). And Ferns ( although I thought mine had died earlier in the year but it had just died back and came back better than ever). Because of the dry weather I’m going to buy more Sedum to keep in pots.Parsley looks nice in pots: I always stick my supermarket parsley in a pot after a while. Hebes are nice in pots, too. I’m a very lazy gardener so everything I plant has to be easy to maintain.

I'm a big fan of hydrangeas. I have several in pots, a few I've had for years so clearly not easy to kill either!

I have ordered four new pots from Amazon and waiting for my book to arrive… ?????

Hydrangeas are easy to kill. They need lots of water (clue in name) and, if grown in containers, very large ones. One of mine is in a very large pot. It will need to be transferred to the ground this autumn.

What I am looking for is plants that come back year after year (I know there’s a proper name for this but it escapes me at the moment !)in three of the pots and maybe just flowers in one of the pots.. getting quite excited about this prospect..?

My kitten keeps pulling in thecompost in this plant. I have put some clothes essential oil in all the pots hoping this will deter him. Failing that somebody will come on and say cat faeces is actually very good for potted plants..?…. The thing is over the little fence is a designated area for his toilet habits and my other cat…. I can’t upload the photo because it’s saying it’s too big but I have uploaded much bigger photos before with no problem, anyway it is the Japanese maple which is in one of the other pictures I think ?

Pooing!!..?‍♀️

Clove!!

Get an app on you mobile named PlantNet - others are available. It is free to instal and you just take a photo of the plant/shrub/tree/flower etc that you want to identify and it gives the result.

PollyDolly

Get an app on you mobile named PlantNet - others are available. It is free to instal and you just take a photo of the plant/shrub/tree/flower etc that you want to identify and it gives the result.

Thank you ?

If you have perennials in your pots, for a good part of the year they won’t be doing anything and may disappear completely over the winter. That’s why annuals and spring bulbs are so popular in containers.

Euonymus is good, too. Evergreen and perennial.

Germanshepherdsmum

Hydrangeas are easy to kill. They need lots of water (clue in name) and, if grown in containers, very large ones. One of mine is in a very large pot. It will need to be transferred to the ground this autumn.

I'm not sure how I've managed to keep mine alive for so long then!
House plants I'm rubbish with but hydrangeas seem to be my thing.

Terracotta is often not such a great idea, they can crack in frosty conditions and dry out quickly.
Those plastic ones look fine, you will have to drill holes in them for drainage and raise them off the ground a little.
I use bricks to raise mine and sometimes pan trivets, picked up from charity shops.

I wish someone would sell plastic pots that fit perfectly inside terracotta ones, especially now that summers are getting hotter.I don’t like the look of plastic pots but they’re far more practical and the soil doesn’t dry out as much. I keep meaning to buy some of that copper tape to put round my pots to deter slugs, although I don’t seem to have too much of a problem with slugs.

I don’t know if any plants are poisonous to cats: I am careful to buy plants that are dog safe.

Lilies are, I believe.

A lot of house plants are dangerous including lilies. I haven’t had cats for years and, pre internet I never realised that anything was poisonous to dogs or cats. Never had lilies in the house but, like most people in the 70’s had spider plants everywhere.

Germanshepherdsmum

Lilies are, I believe.

I used to grow lilies but realised if a cat got pollen on its fur then licked it off it could be dangerous.

Not that I have a cat but I wouldn't like to think a neighbour's cat strolled through the garden then died.

Spider plants ok for cats. Says they actually like it as it gives them a bit of a high ( might try it myself….)

Callistemon21

Germanshepherdsmum

Lilies are, I believe.

I used to grow lilies but realised if a cat got pollen on its fur then licked it off it could be dangerous.

Not that I have a cat but I wouldn't like to think a neighbour's cat strolled through the garden then died.

Mine always got lily beetle and didn’t last long anyway.

PollyDolly

Get an app on you mobile named PlantNet - others are available. It is free to instal and you just take a photo of the plant/shrub/tree/flower etc that you want to identify and it gives the result.

Thanks so much for that. I have downloaded the app and there is a very interesting weed I want to take a picture of in the morning..?

MayBee70

Callistemon21

Germanshepherdsmum

Lilies are, I believe.

I used to grow lilies but realised if a cat got pollen on its fur then licked it off it could be dangerous.

Not that I have a cat but I wouldn't like to think a neighbour's cat strolled through the garden then died.

Mine always got lily beetle and didn’t last long anyway.

I grow lots of lilies, in pots because I find they do best in pots. I've always had cats. Never had any problems with them. The plants are too tall for pollen to get anywhere near the cat's fur.

You have to be eternally vigilant with lily beetles. I spend all summer hunting them and their larvae and performing prompt execution of both?
It's a shame that such a beautiful beetle is so destructive...