Pots!! New house and just a scrap of garden?

[SaraSidle]

Moving to a new build next week.... Characterless I know!

My intentions are to just plant in pits. There is a bit of a patio area.

Any ideas what I could do? I prefer shrubs/trees etc to actual flowers, so not specifically looking for colour.

*pots!!

If you have a south-facing wall and like figs, then a fig in a pot can do very well.

And don't forget hanging baskets, but not flowers. I always grow tomatoes this way ('tumbling' varieties) and lots of people do strawberries.

(doesn't answer your query about shrubs, but I like to eat what I grow...)

I have some nice blueberry bushes which are in pots. Best to get two different varieties and plant in ericaceous soil. Also plant tomatoes and strawberries. Interested to hear what others suggest as I would like to expand what I grow this year.

Hadn't thought of strawberries or tomatoes!

Not even sure which side garden faces. Hope do the usual herbs, but hadn't thought of growing foodie things. Great ideas!

Camellias are nice - good shrubbiness and flowers.

I have some amazing lilies in pots - they were free with a magazine a few years ago and they're getting bigger and bigger...

Ooh lilies!! In pits? I never thought if that

Love camellias too.

This month's Gardener's World has a massive feature on planting in pots. Or "containers" as they have it.

I have a bit of flat roof outside my flat. I regularly and successfully grow:

Potatoes
Onions
Strawberries
Peas
Carrots
Parsnips
Raspberries
A buddleia
Lavender
A Rose bush
Daffodils
Tulips
Anenomes
Sunflowers

Sweetcorn didn't do well, you need loads to pollinate it. This year's experiment is aubergine.

I start seeds off in clingfilmed pots on the window sill, and will start planting out in about a month. My sunflowers are three inches high and about three weeks old, to give you an idea of the timescale (I like quick results!)

You can get stuff like seed potatoes and onion sets in the pound shop if you don't want to invest too much. They went straight into pots a couple of weeks ago - south coast, East facing, sheltered area - and are about an inch high already

My parents have a 30yo wisteria in a pot on their patio

Oh, and whenever I buy fresh herbs I get potted ones and bung the leftovers in a pot outside. My Christmas tree lives in a pot on the doorstep and has tinsel strewn across is annually

Sainsburys have hanging basket of strawberries, herbs and tomatoes at the moment and sunflowers to grow in pots which I'm going to do with the DCs this month