How to group pots - plus practical tips for fabulous container planting

This was very useful and informative. You really know which question to ask.

Alexandra. I just love your videos. 🥰🥰

I have learnt so much from you Alexandra, so helpful and your guests are really knowledgeable. Thank you😘

I love this way of gardening, especially in a small garden like mine. The space is always changing and evolving and no mistakes are ever permanent, just a matter of moving pots around. Very rewarding! Thank you Alexandra! 💜

…great tips too! 🪴

Very interesting tip about layering the same type of bulb in the one pot so you have lots of the same flower at once. I am not keen on the layering of different bulbs in the one pot as you often end up with a too high foliage to flower ratio. I wonder what percentage of the bulbs are discarded after flowering and bought in new in autumn, probably all of the tulips. Thanks for a super video. I think it is the indication of a good video when a subject that isn't particularly appealing becomes very interesting. Many thanks.

Great tips!! i love the versatility of pots and the various heights the bring instantly to a garden space.. I don’t purely garden with pots but I like to include them in my garden to add visual interest and levels and especially for non frost hardy plants like dahlias and caladiums in my zone .. thank you for sharing! 🪴

I bought a dolly for moving pots. I'm 73 and need to protect my back

Alot of work with your garden Dan but then you have colour all the time. Interesting video

Oh my goodness, Alexandra, such a great job on this! I'm going to echo other comments and say this is so useful, and well done. You do ask fabulous questions, bringing out excellent thoughts from your interviewees. And, many of those you're interviewing I've been reading / watching already, so this makes it extra fun and meaningful for me. For years I've been adoring the yummy pots of flowers by Dan Cooper & partner!!! So this is so special to have an interview with him. Thank you!!

This is interesting He is very good and expresses well.

Interesting!,,,!,

I simply can't imagine how much all that cost 😳

Hi all. I'm a keen gardener and also love pots - however - can we all be conscious of water usage. I understand that grouping pots as densely as Dan does helps to reduce transpiration however this amount of watering (using highly treated drinking water) is not environmentally friendly. Maybe some tips for using grey water? We have had a really dry winter, the artesian wells aren't full, so if we have a hot, dry summer then be prepared for hosepipe bans......

I have started using moss in my pots as well. Slows the drainage. Or screens & moss to keep critters out when they are sitting in a bed. That’s for the ideas and your time.

I love your videos and my garden is steadily coming together. I live in a chocolate box village where villagers and tourists stop to admire my beautiful garden. I was a complete novice a few years ago and have made some very expensive mistakes in the past. You are my 'go to' place to give me inspiration and educate myself on becoming a gardener... I'm hooked.

I really enjoyed this and was hoping they would talk about protecting the plants from slugs and snails

Um. So did anyone else notice the woman in the window at the beginning of the video!?😳

Thanks Alexandra for the useful Q's & A's

You are the best.

Thankyou. I’m just embarking on a similar venture but not on that scale. My worry is the effect on my porcelain tiles.

My garden is largely in pots . Loved this episode.

More fantastic content. My Dad always potted up a number of containers to pop into spots in the garden where necessary.

In one of your videos, you suggest putting a container in a border as a garden ornament. I plan to do this is a dry shady area where the soil is poor. Should I raise the pot off the soil to leave a gap , or can I place it directly on the soil?

This little visit is so inspiring. It is so beautiful. My in progress garden is 60 feet wide and only 25 feet from the house to the back fence. I have 5 fig trees, 2 guavas, 2 peaches, 1 apricot, and 1 kumquat tree all growing in 55 quart pots because I don't have enough space to put them all in the ground. I also have geraniums, ferns, and herbs growing in pots. It all looks like a nursery instead of a garden (one person asked if I was growing for a nursery). This really gives me ideas how to arrange my trees and potted flowers around the shrubs that are in the ground so it is all more pleasing to look at.

I use a potting mix for potted plants and use it straight from the bag. If I am planting in a clay pot, I put a 3 inch square of 1/4 inch wire mesh at the bottom with 1 small stone on top of the mesh. The mesh helps keep slugs from crawling into the pot and the stone helps keep the dirt from falling out. If I am using a large nursery pot with 4 big square holes in the sides, I will partly block each hole with a small stone.

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Feast for the eyes. Again, just shows what you can do with a small space. Love it!

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All of your videos are so informative. Re. Crocks in bottom of pots, I use damp screwed up newspaper.

When you have a pot that has a perennial growing in it that has come to the end of the season, do you leave it in the pot or replace the who,e thong?

Are the pot sitting directly on the ground?

Dan is so knowledgable and delightful

Just wondering what growing zone you are in.
I am in zone 6 so wondering if this will work for me?

What mini greenhouse do you use?

Wow!

I use old sponges at the bottom of my pots. Retains water and holds back the soil.

I wonder if the person taking a shower new he was being videoed….😅😂😮

Beautiful garden

Yep, I love watering, can't understand why some people describe it as a chore.

Gorgeous backyard! 🥰 I am planning to plant all of my plants in the pots under our big tree, only because i can't get my flowers deep enough planting in the ground the tree roots are everywhere 🙁 and i can't plant just any flowers i live in the desert it has to be drought and heat tolerant plants. I am planting mostly Lantana, daisy and few most desert flowers. My front yard yes all the plants are in the ground. I perferred in the ground for it to grow how i want it. I was planning to just put only Lantana and Daisy only, now i might change my mind after watching yoir video lol. Thank you for advice vey informative.

I am just amazed at how clean his apron is. I have to wash mine lol.

I have tons of pots like him and watering is the vain of my existance to the point next year am getting the water retaining beads because that is time i need to garden more lol

"frustrated gardener" - lol, I can relate to that 🤣

Delicious...

great video