Cloud Olive Tree

[Bullseyes]

I have a big ancient olive tree in a meter wide black plastic pot. The pot is also a meter tall. Has anyone got any ideas on how I can disguise the pot please? Should I do something with the container or plant around the container? Any ideas?

Blimey, that is a big pot!! I have something similar (though a little smaller) - I've got some strategically placed smaller attractive pots with bushy and/or tall plants to disguise what is behind them. It's quite a constrained space though, which limits how much I can put there.

It is a huge pot! I really like the structure of the tree and don’t want to distract from it. Do your smaller pots go all the way round or has your big pot got it’s back against a wall?

I will post a picture of my pot.

@Bullseyes sorry, I missed this. Mine has a wall behind it. The pots do not go all around it - usually I have just one or two larger pots. I have an acer in the plastic pot in question and it droops down over the pot edge which that helps too.

Are you creative? I've a book by Jocasta Innes that has various positing techniques (for indoors) to disguise unattractive surfaces - you could try something like that?

You know those rush and bamboo screen things that people attach to fences? Maybe buy some of that, cut it to fit and wrap it round the pot to cover the plastic, then plant some trailing things like thyme around the edges to disguise the rim.

When I say positing I mean painting, of course ... previous suggestion a very good one too.

You can buy round raised beds, the rustic steel ones look lovely, you could slip one of those over the pot. Like this

Here is tree

I really like the rustic steel but they are not big enough.

thanks for the replies. The tree is coming out of the catio and going in the back garden Center of the lawn.