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What can I grow in a pot shaped like this?

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DigbyTheDigger · 18/05/2023 15:40

Mine has similar proportions, but without the handles. 50cm tall, 30cm at widest point, and the opening at the top is 15cm in diameter.

Something tall and thin? Or something like creeping jenny that will hang down the sides?

What can I grow in a pot shaped like this?

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ChaoticCrumble · 19/05/2023 11:56

Bronze fennel has a long root and looks pretty? But also compost is £££

tailinthejam · 20/05/2023 00:57

Tomatoes? The trailing type would look great. You would have to water it an awful lot though.

One trick that helps to stop terracotta pots drying out too fast is to pour water all over the outside of the pot as well as watering the plants inside it.

CosmosQueen · 20/05/2023 05:25

crabbyoldappletree · 18/05/2023 19:48

Well you could put a rambling rector in there and it would stop the beggar from dominating the rest of your garden, a good bit of trellis work so it could climb....but it would eventually get potbound! But I had a similar sized pot and had a zephirine-drouhin in it for several years, it did start looking peaky, and getting it out of the pot was er...let's just say a challenge, due to small pot neck and large root ball, and I now have wild orchids growing in the pot (no idea how they got in there, but the fungus they need for growth must have been in the rose compost!

A Rambling Rector can climb 50’! Far too big for a pot 😀

IcakethereforeIam · 31/05/2023 18:44

Just been to Bridgemere GW, they had tall pots with single varieties of Heuchera fountaining out of them. They looked amazing. I wish I'd taken a picture.

yikesanotherbooboo · 31/05/2023 18:46

I have lilies in small pots lodged at the top of my similar tall terracotta pots

viques · 02/06/2023 09:20

DigbyTheDigger · 18/05/2023 17:28

One really big one.

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A camberwell?

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