DESIGN IDEAS
Pots and planters
ANDREW MONTGOMERY
All plants bright and beautiful, all pots great and small… BONNIE ROBINSON presents a selection of ways to turn your garden into an earthly paradise
ABUNDANT SPLENDOUR Gardener Christopher Lloyd surrounded the fifteenth-century entrance at Great Dixter with a forest of pots so that those leaving the house would be surrounded by the verdant splendour of the garden. This is a tradition upheld by his successor, head gardener Fergus Garrett. Each plant is in a separate pot, so when something is past its prime it can easily be moved elsewhere. Grouping pots also has practical advantages: they need less watering as they dry out much more slowly and taller plants are supported by their neighbours. ‘Pots are a lot of fun. If you do something outrageous, you can quickly cover your tracks,’ Fergus wrote in The Guardian. greatdixter.co.uk 컄
HOUSEANDGARDEN.CO.UK MAY 2016
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