Complete novice - what can I grow in containers?

[NeonK]

I'm crap at gardening and have never really enjoyed it. Just had front garden hard landscaped (life is too short to cut grass) but it does need something to soften it, and I would like to enjoy growing something. So what can I grow in containers/pots that's easy to look after?

I'm not really a pansies/shrubs kinda person. I think I like ornamental grasses, alliums, lavender, peonies - that kind of thing but have no idea if I can grow any of them in pots.

Help!

Bulbs

I have just ID’d some agapanthus in my garden. I had a read up on them and apparently they like to have constricted roots (I.e. pots) and can be drought tolerant once established. Perfect?

Neonk all the things you mentioned will grow in containers, just do some research to make sure the compost mixture is right for each plant. Also how much watering and feeding is appropriate for them.
I try most things in containers, even eucalyptus.

@Thinkle I just looked them up, exactly the sort of thing I was thinking, thanks 

@Beebumble2 fab, thanks. Off to Google compost mixtures before a trip to the garden centre at the weekend!

Many herbs will grow well in pots and can mostly be left alone from one year to the next other than watering in dry weather.

Unless you want to eat them as well but even then they will survive.

Chives have pretty purple flowers at this time of year, Thyme and Rosemary can both flower and Bay is evergreen if you want something a bit bigger and present all year round

Lavender can do very well in pots as can salvia.

Many of the ornamental grasses are huge. Try some of the sedges - Carex comans (bronze coloured), or white variegated ones. I've had a couple of blue sedges on pots for years - they're great because they lookgood in winter too