Suggestions for 3 outside plant pots

Um IsNot AnAnsa

Hi all,

I ain't got much of a clue so looking for some simple suggestions for potting up 3 existing outside empty plant pots: South facing. What and when?

Also, are there any flowers I could be buying now to plant in garden or is it too early yet?

Many thanks

Um IsNot AnAnsa

Oh well. I'll ask for suggestions at the Garden Centre then.

Beruthiel

Difficult to suggest without knowing size of pot.

Um IsNot AnAnsa

Mea culpa:o Large and deep, 16" Diameter.

shawnee

Camelias grow really well in pots and should have buds on them now if you buy them. Azaleas do well also and perhaps a blueberry bush ?

Um IsNot AnAnsa

shawnee wrote: »

Camelias grow really well in pots and should have buds on them now if you buy them. Azaleas do well also and perhaps a blueberry bush ?

Thanks Shawnee, I just checked out photos of them, they look lovely. I'll be giving them a go.

(I didn't know what the flowers would look like in bloom when you see them in the garden centres).

paddy147

Um IsNot AnAnsa wrote: »

Thanks Shawnee, I just checked out photos of them, they look lovely. I'll be giving them a go.

(I didn't know what the flowers would look like in bloom when you see them in the garden centres).

Nice plant that can grow 6 x 6 meters each way.;)

Check for a nice root ball and Prune it after it has flowered.:)


Dont forget to use ericaceous (acidic) potting compost when you are planting into its new pot.


Aldi were recently selling nice Camellias for 7 euro.

Lidl had bigger ones for 12 euro too

looksee

The lidl and aldi camellias are the bog standard pink ones in flower at the moment (well the one across the road in the sun is, mine is always about 2 weeks behind). They are perfectly nice shrubs, though they get big and the flowers hang on and go dead looking, but the foliage is good. They would be too big for pots.

These common ones do not need ericaceous soil, they will grow happily in ordinary garden soil.

paddy147

looksee wrote: »

The lidl and aldi camellias are the bog standard pink ones in flower at the moment (well the one across the road in the sun is, mine is always about 2 weeks behind). They are perfectly nice shrubs, though they get big and the flowers hang on and go dead looking, but the foliage is good. They would be too big for pots.

These common ones do not need ericaceous soil, they will grow happily in ordinary garden soil.

White in Aldi/Lidl,Coolock......(Camellia Japonica)

Recently bought 2 of them from Aldi...lovely condition indeed.:)

Planted them with ericaceous/acidic compost.




You could allways buy this pink 1 in Woodies for 60 euro.

paddy147

Still some left in Aldi this afternoon.

3 large ones left in Lidl in Coolock this evening.