sinking pots in the garden?

Had an idea!!! on the really bad side of my garden that gets waterlogged in winter due to 12" of red clay i thought I would get some large cheap plastic pots, put my shrub/whatever in then sink the tub so its just jutting out a bit at the top to avoid surrounding water flooding. What do you think? I will put gravel at the bottom and drainage holes but dont want to put too many as they make start filling up. would it work do you reckon? To my mind it would look better than having half a dozen pots placed at ground level

 

Its not a rare trick to use plants in sunken pots, which enables you to easily move stuff about if you need to. Your idea seems to be a variation on that twist.

I think the biggest problem you'll have is not waterlogging, but the exact opposite. They will dry out as quick as containers always do, but with the added problem that it will be less obvious that that's happening, because psychologically, the plants are in the ground and therefore need less watering than ones in containers.

 

I'd put drains in to sort the waterlogged soil out. I would do that even in a regular garden, on heavy soil, because "well drained, but moist" is the definition of 99.99% of the plants that I have seen listed that I have ever fancied growing

I do have some plants in pots that are plunged into the borders - but that is because they are tender and will not withstand Winter cold, so they get "lifted" and brought into the conservatory for the Winter. This picture just by way of giving you some encouragement if you fancy giving it a try - you don't need to go to this extreme!!

 

That's an engine hoist @Kristen.

 

No mate, not anymore, now it is a pot hoist