Evergreen pots add structure and sculptural shape to your garden in summer and winter. Plus they’re very easy care, and can often live in their pots for years without too much attention. Here are the best plants and plant categories for your year-round pots.
00:00 Why evergreen pots are so good in your garden
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00:50 Plant evergreens on their own in a pot or group them together
01:10 Simple winter pots and planters video: https://youtu.be/vzYQtqT7x1Q
01:14 Choosing a pot for your evergreen plants
01:59 How to care for your evergreen plants in pots
02:16 Use a slow-release fertiliser in spring to feed your evergreen pots. I’ve bought and used
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02:54 Best evergreens for pots: Dwarf Mountain Pine and dwarf Korean Fir
03:42 Evergreen trees for pots: Juniper, Olive and Bay
04:10 Best trees for smaller gardens video: https://youtu.be/i3Om4PJRNMY
05:00 Are ferns evergreen?
05:26 Evergreen shrubs for pots: Skimmia
05:40 Evergreen plants with architectural shapes: Fatsia japonica, cordyline, yucca and phormium
06:29 Ornamental grasses – evergreen and deciduous grasses look good in pots. Try Festuca glauca, Miscanthus and Panicum
07:14 Also try shrubs and trees which are deciduous because their leaves die in winter, but stay on to keep a beautiful winter shape: beech and hornbeam
07:30 Are succulents good for evergreen pots?
07:55 Don’t plant this plant in your evergreen pots!
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Many different "regular" large-species conifers can also be shaped into topiary or hedges too, like hemlocks and spruces. The ones that come to mind are Western Hemlock, Sitka Spruce (both are natives here to the Pacific Northwest), and Alberta Spruce. We have an Alberta Spruce spiral topiary.
Dear Alexandra, congratulations on your informative and inspiring video! I recently checked out the Bunny Guinness Channel and found a video about garden lighting. I am totally excited about this topic. If you ever find some free time in your busy schedule, could you please consider a budget-friendly spin-off on the subject? Thank you very much, Claudia
Really very helpful video, I've been doing evergreen pots for a few years now but never thought of grasses. I wonder if you've tried bamboo? It's one of the few that wasn't successful and I'm not sure why? Euphorbia mellifera has been great should anyone want to try it.
So informative, and being in US 9B, I find your videos so informative and smart! Thank you and cheers to Spring on the horizon ☘️
I daydream of making my own ginormous pots for certain areas of my garden!
Some day!!
This was quite informative. Thank you!
Great ideas! I have an old trash can, an old juniper, some big pots, some june grass seeds, and some blue grama grass that probably gets too wet. I am putting them all together where I dismantled the fire pit and it will be great.
Wonderful information!
I like to buy small conifers when they are on sale around Christmas to use for container plants. However, I found out that Norfolk pines are from Norfolk Island off of New Zealand. They are not cold hardy evergreens, but make wonderful houseplants.
We live in Canada. Our winters can get cold. -30°c. Would and evergreen survive?O should I bring them inside. Which would not be ideal.
Ah, perfect timing! After a truly crazy hectic year involving various medical emergencies and a stressful move from our southwest France urban potager, we are now settled in our new home near Portugal's Silver Coast, and well enough now to begin to tackle our huge but completely bare rooftop terrace which flanks a birdsong-filled copse. Great ideas about pots, especially relating to size as heat and wind are concerns. I feel again connected to the uplifting world of gardeners. Thank you!
Skimmia in pots – that's really something. I'd never think of that, and I love Skimmia.
At 1:49/8:56 there is a lovely tree in a pot !
Please could you tell me what it is ? I love it’s shape Great informative video. As ever thank you 🙏 ☺️
Great video Alexander. Thank you for mentioning the giant pots outside Kings Cross Station – they are stunning and a real pleasure for me to see them each time I arrive in London.
You are so good at explaining, I am new to gardening and have popped back to your videos for reference many times, discovered other helpful tips from people you have mentioned or interviewed. Love your garden. Thanks for all your help and information.
This was so helpful. I’ve basically been doing it all wrong since I moved back to the UK a few months ago. I thought the rain would be enough to water my pots but no! Now I’m going to water them more often. Also I planted bulbs far too sparsely and they look really wimpy, so next year…. Also I didn’t put fertilizer into the compost when I planted them. Next year will be better – thanks to Dan and you!
Me again – it’s geranium Maderense 😊
I love your videos I’ve learned so much thank you 🙏🦋🙏❤️
Alexandra, such wonderful information. I can’t thank you enough for this brief, concise, yet bountiful amount of pertinent information! You always get me thinking of new ways to incorporate new cultivars and species into the garden. Quick question, the very dark almost black foliage to the sedge in the pot at the end of the video, what is the cultivar?! It’s stunning! Thank you again!
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I have just started watching your channel and am enjoying it very much. Hellooooo from – as far away from Britain as can possibly be – New Zealand! I have our New Zealand Cordyline – a purple version – in a pot on my deck. It does very well and needs hardly any attention. Another plant that I found is fantastic in a pot – looks great all year round, only needs watering – is the dwarf Nandina: a pot success story if ever there was one!
Love the various pots in your garden. Could you please tell us where you source them from?
Hi Alexandra! I'd love to know your opinion on Pieris (Pieris Japonica) as an evergreen and frost-hardy plant to put in a pot. Do you have experience with it? Thanks!!!!
So glad i found this chanel its been so useful for me who has no clue and a large garden to maintain. I'm gaining info as i go thank-you
Love your wonderful videos you are so good at explaining thank you 🙏😇🙏❤️