Huge Garden Pots

[Verbena37]

Hi,
We are in the middle of having our patio redone and made much bigger.
We would like some bamboo/tree ferns or similar screening plants in massive pots (like you see in national trust properties-like maybe 3 feet across). Thinking an odd number of 3 pots strategically placed to screen us from public park behind.

Do these have a proper name because hasn’t been can helpful anxiety if yes, can anybody recommend anywhere reasonably priced....like not £500 a pot?!

Cool, thanks, I’ll take a look at garden centres too.
DH (seems more than me) to want the huge pots but thinking about it, it would also cost a fortune in compost!

Thanks everybody, some great ideas.

Verbena it does cost a fortune in compost .

I think you may be able to part fill with something inert ,but more experienced pp would need to explain .

Oh and just thought if you were planting something that grows tall for screening I guess you'd need the weight in a pot to stop it blowing over in wind ?

Save some of your dug up patio, to put into the bottom of the pots. This will aid drainage, stop the pots toppling over and save on soil. I use Compost Direct for my soil. It is very good quality, and if you buy in bulk, much cheaper than garden centres.

That’s so funny OP - I want the gorilla too! . I asked the Oundle garden people to pave my garden —handkerchief— but when I said I only had £10k he buggered off and never gave me a quote. It’s sodding expensive round here. If you’re near Oundle then have you tried Gates garden centre near Langham?

Blimey! Yes, very pricey.
They’ve been taken over though so it’s changed a lot recently. Nearly all deli food stuff gone and now have a country clothing bit.

So where is Langham?

Ooh Oakham. And a nice café too ....I’ll take my mum and we can have a mooch round.

I’m not sure if Gates do the big BIG pots, but you could definitely ask them. The stock the NT pots.

Speaking of gorillas and random African fibreglass creatures, have you tried the Stamford garden centre out at Great Carterton (north of Stamford)? Stamford is easier to get to from Oundle —you’ll drive past my house—

Haven’t tried stamford garden centres either.
Yes, we love stamford.

I like the Costco ones and they are cheap at £17.99 or £39.99

We have 2 of the big light blue plastic ones.

They’re all lovely but think you have to be a member to use Costco don’t you?

Light plastic pots will not do for tall screening plants. The will topple in any wind and your plant will break. That is one of the reasons that the very big pots are so expensive. They are made of very heavy material to withstand centuries of wind and weather.

Ikea. Do matching sizes too so three big and five small matching for bedding.

I’ve always half filled my large pots with gravel, good for drainage and stopped the ones in the front ‘going for walks!