Can I see your pots please?

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I’ve just taken out all my bulbs and I need some summer colour. Our garden is quite cottagey and our house old. Three big terracotta pots.

Off to the garden centre today so need some inspiration! Thanks.

I tend to just put one specimen in a large pot, hydrangea, clematis Azalea etc. and then group them. Dahlias and Cosmos go in their own pots as do leftovers that don’t end up in beds.

Do you put full sized Cosmos in pots, Beebumble2? I've some that need a home, and I've been debating it. They do get really tall though, don't they?

Just got six stock plants for £1.99 from Morrison’s! That will do one pot. Annoyingly they only had one of the stocks. We’ve already got a big hydrangea in the bed although maybe a different variety would be an idea...

One nice way of doing pots is the Thriller, Filler, Spiller method. You get a plant with a bit of drama, a couple/few fluffier ones and a few that will trail over the edge of the pot (Gardeners' World's idea). It works really well!

Bung the thriller in the middle (or back), the fillers in around it and the spillers obviously go at the edge of the pot. The thriller tends to be a small zappy shrub, the fillers and spillers can be bedding type plants. When the season's over you can change the bedding ones for something else for a different look.