Problem with my garden pots!

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  1. Verdun

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    Forgot to add Lucius.....my neighbour is a tad eccentric :) She’s fine though :)
     
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      Hi talksr. I love the look of clay pots when they develop some mineral deposits, but agree the green seems less attractive only because it makes you think your pots are probably too wet or shady.
      As others have said on here, it's just the porous nature of the terracotta and will keep happening.

      If it doesn't look right with the new build, how about a totally different look? Maybe a few wooden planters or a collection of zinc or galvanised steel containers, you could repot your plants in plastic pots and sit them in the outer containers.
       
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        Hello everyone. Thank you so much for your kind and helpful comments.
        It would seem this is a bit of a marmite issue. Some love it, some not so.
        I don't mind it, but I am trying to go for a modern, clean looking garden. My house is only about six months old, so everything is still quite new. I have quite a square garden and had been using some square terracotta pots to put some buxus in. What is interesting is that out of those three pots, two have gone very mossy and green, the other, absolutely nothing, yet they have all been watered equally and all placed in the same area. It must be something to do with the composition of the pot.

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          Plenty of info on the net. Me, I like to see that weathered look, adds to the scene.
           
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            The white parts are similar to the chemical bloom you can get on new brickwork. The algae can look unsightly at this stage. Glazed pots are the easier solution and they withstand the frosts much better.
             
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            At my niece’s modern new build, the garden is an echo of the home, viz., minimalistic, clean cut and “connected”. And it works well. Horses for courses....like many of the younger generation, she would hate algae covered pots much as she (and most of us) would algae and moss on paths!? The planting is subtle, developing, considered and “clean” too with white camellia, white clematis, pinky white daphne etc....green covered pots would look incongruous there. :)

            Here, I grow all kinds of plants...pots and in the ground...formal,neat and tidy as well as informal, sprawling but I have clean moss and algae from paths, lawns and...yes...pots:)

            It’s great we are all different in what we like and long may those differences prevail:)
             
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              You're welcome to come here and remove all our moss as well. Bring your own skip. :whistle: :heehee:
               
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                Ha ha Shiney....nice try:)
                 
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