Feeding Agapanthus.

I hv 7-7-7 cant remember the company

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By "general" I mean something where the three N:P:K ratio numbers are "similar". Growmore, for example, is 7:7:7 or 10:10:10 (they are, in essence, the same - you can use less of the 10:10:10 than the 7:7:7 as the 10:10:10 is "stronger" - both are equally balanced)

Miracle Gro liquid (which you just dilute) is 6:5:5 - so "balanced"

Miracle Gro soluble (the blue granules, which dissolve easily) is 24-8-16 - I think that would be a good choice. It is "high" in N=Nitrogen, so will promote growth, but is also high in K=Potash/Potassium - 2/3rd the amount of Nitrogen - which is enough for the flowering part. It is low in P=Phosphate, which should be fine.

The other main brand on the market is Phostrogen which has an NPK of 14-10-27 - which is basically the same as a Tomato fertiliser (much higher in Potash than the N & P) - so best not to use that for the Growth Stage.

 

Great Kristen have a couple of really large buckets which had trees in them when purchased and have these really lovely pots but not a good shape for most things, if I got a big plastic pot with same diameter as the pots in the photo and popped them in the pots that might be ok.

 

Indeed, nothing will ever come out for repotting!! so good idea to use a liner pot. Are they a bit high off the ground (for Agapanthus)? I'd want something more showy, and possibly a trailing companion too?

 

Open to ANY suggestions re these pots. They are really lovely and totally frost proof BUT such a bad shape for using with plants. I've had trailing Geraniums in them in the past and they looked so so. The colour of most of the trailing Geraniums isn't great with the pots and I don't really "do" annuals apart from Geraniums. As you rightly say Kristen they are a bit tall (about 2ft 6ins). They also weigh a fair amount even empty so not the kind of thing you want to be struggling getting into a greenhouse for winter if full of soil, at my advancing/advanced years anyway. Hasten to add I didn't buy them, they were a present from a non gardening friend. They must have cost a bomb and such a waste that I've hardly used them, I've even thought of 1/2 burying them on their sides in a flowerbed and have something "spilling out" then thought that was definitely a bit naff/ok for Chelsea but Scottish countryside????. Maybe some bright spark will come up with the ideal thing for my lovely pots, fingers crossed. Perhaps I should do a separate post re my "difficult" pots.

 

I had a look at my "Shallow Container Pot" and FWIW they are 12L (although I have no idea if that is optimal size).

No great ideas for what to plant in your alibaba pots. I hate any container that has insufficient diameter to retain a reasonable amount of water ... we have some stupidly small urns here that need watering twice a day ... (I ought to rig up some drip irrigation for them ...)

Agave americana?



(There are a few photos on Tubs that I have collected on my Pinterest - although not sure they are any use to you, might just have a Eureka moment amongst them!
http://www.pinterest.com/kgardenpins/tubs/

"Flowing river" style is the only one I have seen that I liked

 

Wowcha those Agave are amazing. Hey me doots they would survive a Scottish winter and look much more suitable for say the South of France than Fife countryside. I can just hear what the neighbouring farmers would say if I planted anything like what they look like. It's bad enough when they spy that I have planted something new....... "waste of good crop growing soil"!

 

Nah, you daft brush!, its for a Statement Put them somewhere near the house - either side of the front door, or near the entrance or on a terrace. Time to try something less traditional for your Urns and Tubs

Not sure that mine are "truly adventurous", but I have, at least, moved on from dangling Fuchsias

http://kgarden.wordpress.com/projects/versailles-planters/

 

I know you weren't meaning those plants exactly! and how dare you call me a daft brush What's that expression tho which would seem appropriate?, something to do with caps and fitting!
Your more adventurous planters look amazing but I did also like the Fuchsias and Geraniums too. I totally agree re shape of planting, something going upwards and something cascading down the sides of the pots. I can see I am going to have to do more in the way of annuals..... Oh I suppose it wouldn't kill me to have enough for a few pots!

I think I will give getting any Versailles planters a miss tho, good god that price for what's basically a smart box. Think they must be sold to folk who have more money than sense. Your ones look great.

 

Takes one to know one?!

Can you find an interesting, somewhat different, trailing plant - seems like Lobellia et al are everywhere. I like the Ipomea (is it I. batatas?) like Sweet Caroline - but not sure the large leaf is the thing to go with your lovely pots.

Colocasias might look nice for the foliage though. Come to think of it I might use those for my tubs this year - thanks for that

or perhaps Caladiums - madly colourful, but I have never managed to get big leaves (mind you, haven;t managed with Colocasia either, so I'm sure you would manage)

 

Step up a level with an Alocasia?

 

Can just see me managing to heave these back into the greenhouse in the Autumn! How long is the recovery time post Hernia surgery? Thanks for the ideas will do some fergling about on the net and try for some inspiration. Better get a bidge on otherwise we'll be into winter again.