Suggestions please for large pot.

kircubbin2000

You have a flower palette?
Does anyone else?

Not personally, but my friend won't grow any flowers in her garden unless they're white.

Hebe's are really nice with various shades of leaves and flowers i love them

Osmanthus Goshiki (false holly) could be good. It’s evergreen but always multicoloured. The dwarf one doesn’t exceed 1.5 metres and is very slow growing indeed.

My lollipop topiary bay trees in pots give me a lot of pleasure and look lovely all year long, but you could add extra interest by under planting with low growing flowering plants like lavender, Erigeron, petunias or busy lizzies.

Jasmine

I think a shetland pony would be good as a large pet but my garden's too small.

I have an Abelia growing in a pot .
I think that it's the most successful of my pot plants.
I don't do much to it apart from.water it and it produces a mass of very pale pink almost white trumpets.

Star Jasmine has lovely white scented flowers and grows on a metal support.

Wonderful thread.
Can I recommend the Anouk lavender, it’s truly beautiful and smells devine.

dogsmother

Wonderful thread.
Can I recommend the Anouk lavender, it’s truly beautiful and smells devine.

Word of warning Anouk or French Lavender is a tender perennial and will not survive a cold winter so it’s suitability depends where you live.

As suggested, Pieris would do well. I have one either side of my front door and they’ve been there for years. Potted in ericaceous compost, watered with rain water and top dressed each Spring. I use liquid seaweed as a feed. 👩‍🌾

Daphne Odora might fit the bill if you want an evergreen with pink flowers. It smells nice too.

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Many thanks for everybody's input.
I visited Notcutts this morning armed with your suggestions. I already have quite a few of them, but went for grandMattie's Loropetalum (witch hazel). The photo of the label doesn't do it justice, the flowers are very hot pink and the foliage a deep burgundy.

Lovely choice. All these suggestions are so useful. Thank you. I am very ignorant about gardening as my dearest late DH used to do it all, as he wanted to and was good at it.

All help and advice here noted for the lovely courtyard garden that I have moved to. My containers, terracotta and blue glazed pots, came with me in their own furniture van, but always room for more! 😊

Indiebee

Lovely choice. All these suggestions are so useful. Thank you. I am very ignorant about gardening as my dearest late DH used to do it all, as he wanted to and was good at it.

All help and advice here noted for the lovely courtyard garden that I have moved to. My containers, terracotta and blue glazed pots, came with me in their own furniture van, but always room for more! 😊

Yes, always room for more pots! I have about 100, grouped on my patio mainly. I am crazy really, because watering is a pain, especially when we have a hosepipe ban. I had to give up the ceramic pots as I can't lift them any more. I find black plastic ones disappear from sight once the plant grow.

Enjoy your courtyard garden, Indiebee

Thank you Shysal!
About 100 pots sounds beautiful. And Yes, watering is a pain but worth it!

Escallonia is also a rather pretty shrub .