Fee's Pots

Here are some piccies of my pots, not very exciting to you professionals!!!! Please feel free to comment. I'm really pleased with my Sweet Peas, this is my first ever attempt. Petunias are lovely too, not what I expected when planting. I think they are my favourite flower now!

 

dazzling

 

very nice

 

Lovely colours, Fee. They'd certainly cheer up a dull day! Well done!

 

They are all really lovely Fee.

Youv'e done especially well with the sweet peas as I don't think they are doing very well this year.

My attempt was pathetic, I probably have one that has survived all that growing from seed

But I am cutting the flowers from that one..

 

Very Nice, Fee I was suprised to find Sweet Peas so easy and so worth while Do well in pots as long as you remember to water and feed them they have quite big feet....which suprised me when I tipped out the finished ones last year.

 

What wonderful colours!!!!! They are lovely!!!!

 

Yes, lovely pots. I grew loads of sweet peas, and gave half to my neighbour who has hers in a shady place, and they are lovely. Mine are in full sun and despite watering have only just begun to flower, and the slugs ate quite a few along with my mesembryanthemums.
Yours look very healthy, Fee, well done!

 

I think my Sweet Peas have done better as they are not in full sun all day. Now, as I've said, I know nothing about gardening, but my mum's Peas have not done well, along with my bosses. Both theirs are in full sun all day. Maybe that's the problem, who knows, but I'm really chuffed with mine. I have been cutting the flowers and taking them indoors to enjoy, much to my hay fever suffering hubby's disgust
Fee

 

Oh, meant to say, I didn't start these from seed, I bought them as small plants about 4" high. I haven't done anything from seed, don't have a green house to nurture them.

 

Well done Fee, you have some smart containers, the dianthus are stunning and not many people think of using lobelia on it's own to full effect.
Keep dead heading the petunias to prolong flowering (that is nip the stem off behind the flower).

 

Thanks Strongy for the tip. Being new to this, I wasn't sure exactly how to dead head, I was just pulling off the dead petals, but I've just read on another post to cut behind the actual flower head itself. It's simple things like that which others take for granted that I don't have a clue about, but hey, plenty of time to learn.

As for using the lobelia on it's own, I didn't really have any idea how any of these plants were going to come out, and now I realise that it's very simply to mix and match in pots. Next year I will do that, but to be honest, I like having all the one in a pot for a more dramatic effect.

 

Well done Fee, I am new to gardening really, in my retirement and I generally prefer to keep the same plant type in each container and then have fun bunching pots together to form a display, which makes it more flexible.