The English Home

POTS OF passion

I garden in pots because I do not have a choice, but I rarely resent this because I see large pots like having great living vases of growing flower arrangements. You can fill a pot easily, cramming it with colour and textures, creating islands of flamboyance.

Good, big pots elevate the garden helpfully for a small space. This is wonderful as you get immediate floral grandeur that is uplifted to almost hip height immediately, plants that you would otherwise have to get on your knees to properly study just require a light bow to admire. If you place large pots around seating, a tulip behind you can seemingly be perched on your shoulder like a parrot, and by summer, flowers can be literally around, in or above your face, towering and engulfing.

Pot gardening is quick and satisfying because the whole job of planting and replanting is done very quickly, a sharp look for a whole season can be prepared

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