Any ideas what I could put in these pots?

[IndigoSkye]

Hi All

I ordered these pots on sale online, they are a little bigger than I anticipated! Does anyone have any recommendations for what plants would look good in them. I want to put them out of the front of my house which is in shade for the first half of the day and then full sun for the rest!

TIA

Can't see the pots - is there a pic I'm not getting? Anyway - so many things - if they're big enough you could have a shrub and some annuals (annuals you'll replace each year, shrubs will keep going and get bigger). For instance you could have a small conifer or acer and underplant it with geraniums and begonias and have something that spills over the sides like lobelias and nemesias. That's the kind of thing I'd do for quick effect - the tree/shrub is instant green and shape and the annuals will get bigger quickly and flower over the summer.

This is the kind of thing I mean - conifer in the middle, pansies around it, ivy cascading. All makes a nice shape and variety.

Same plants on a grander scale. Thing with pots is to keep them well watered, especially if they get a lot of sun. Water every day in dry weather ideally.

Sorry, I'm hopeless, Here's the picture

@onalongsabbatical those look beautiful.

Ooo lovely pots OP. What are you thinking, two each side of the front door, big ones at the back or something more asymmetrical? For instance you could put one big one on one side and the two smaller on the other side and use the other big one somewhere else.
You can get quite a few plants in those. Have they got drainage holes? I've found a lot of ornamental plastic pots haven't, but there's usually a few circles you can kind of punch out (I use one side of a pair of scissors and push it through and twist a few times) - you must have drainage, especially in plastic otherwise your plants will just get too wet and hot and die.

There is a good article about pot and plant combinations in June's Gardeners World mag if you're interested. Not rocket science but a way of thinking about what suits what taking into account the proportions of the plants & pots that I'd not thought much about before. So for tall pots like that you might have a single plant that is about the same height or a mix of plants where the tallest is two times taller than the pot. Worth a look if you're not just itching to get planting.