What do you grow in containers?

I'm just starting in my garden so I feel like I'm cheating as many have just literally been planted. But, so far they're still alive (it's been five days):

Vibernum tinus
Huffy
Cyclamen
Ferns
Hostas
Heuchera
Helleborus (although paranoid this is poisonous to my cat)

And I'm about to plant:

Acer (currently carrying in a parcel in my bag!)
Nasturtium from seed and other annuals like Antirrhinum

 

..I'm amazed at what people are growing in containers... it's truly inspiring.. what amazing collections... I wonder if anyone has tried Eucalyptus gunnii in a container.. as I like this tree very much but don't want one in the ground... I imagine it would have to be repotted and root pruned every couple of years...

.. I have a few containerised plants.. 4 Camellias - St. Ewe... Lady Vansittart... Jury's Yellow... and Donation..

..Eugenia 'Etna Fire'... plus 2 dwarf Apples....Arthur Turner/Red Windsor...
I'm also growing Geranium 'Rozanne' in a container this year, as well as in the ground... plus Choisya 'Goldfingers'... Fargesia 'Simba'.... Photinia 'Little Red Robin'... Syringa meyeri 'Palibin'... that's about it for now...

 

All my patio roses are in tubs.

Val

 

I grow most of my plants etc in pots due to fact most of my garden is heavy river clay only suitable for bigger shrubs and trees. I am also growing some native trees in pots to plant out later in a wood I am planning

 

About 10 years ago he produced 2 Olives, not much bigger than a Ladybird. Flowers every year but we probably haven't got the right sort of Bats or Moths to pollinate him.

 

So my evil plan to corner the UK olive oil market , from Wigan is doomed to failure
The olive is a lovely tree though .I love the leaf form and how it shows the dark and light side colours . Great container tree for our climate

 

Where are all the pictures people!! I am after some inspiration for a container garden down the side of my house that the kitchen window looks out onto, it is mainly in the shade but not very wide?

 

Here's a pic of my shaded area, mostly in pots. Nothing's really growing yet so not much to look at but:

Cyclamen in the window boxes (being supplemented with alyssum in a month or so for summer)

Two vibernum tinus

Two heucheras, which I love and are growing but they're stretching so I don't think they're best suited to the indirect sunlight spot I have them in.

A honeysuckle on the left to grow up a metal obelisk, to cover the water butt while not growing up the wall (anything on there can cause damp.

One hellebore ivory prince, ferns and two hostas, still underground.

I think all of these plants are lovely, they're just a bit young to fill the space yet. And potentially not all will grow here as it gets no direct sun at all, except where the honeysuckle is.


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@JackJJW now that looks lovely. I've got a shady area like that along the side of the house which I must put a bit more effort in to. It does get a couple of hours of direct sunlight a day though. If you want some colour Violas should cope in those conditions as they do in my garden. There are lots of them at the Garden Centres at the moment. They look great in pots and baskets.

 

Jackjjw that is exactly what I was looking for ...thank you so much! So fed up with washing up and looking at grey flagstones, now that I could look at!

 

Thanks everyone It's been fun. I kinda want that area to feel a bit like a woodland area... Which might sound odd given it's the side of a house but that feeling of lush green ferns and other plants.

Wiseowl - I have a Fatsia Japonica in the other area of our garden, in more sun. It's growing very well and its flowers are fantastic in winter. It has grown weirdly though with a sideways lean! I love the leaves.

 

I've resorted to planting everything I have in pots, as our soil is very very clayey. It flooded last year with the rain and stayed like a bog for over 5 months, and all but a few perennials and shrubs died off, so this year everything went in pots.
Off the top of my head I have;
- 7 Acers all different varieties.
- Perennials and Biennials, Delphiniums, Digitalis, Lupins, Echinacea, Rubeckia, Aquilega, Verbena Bonariensis, Verbascum and others I can't remember off the top of my head.
- Shrubs, 3 Hebes, Weigela, Photinia, Pieris Japonica Carnaval, Pieris Forest Flame, Callistemon and more that I can't recall.
- The only fruit/veg I have outside in pots are 3 different Blueberry plants, in the greenhouse I have different Chilis, Tomatoes, Cucumber, Pumpkin, Lettuce and a Goji Berry plant.
- Other plants off the top of my head doing well outside in pots are, Fuschia, Geranium, Gazania, Osteopermum, Mesembryanthemum, Oxalis, Verbena, Petunia/Surfinia...
- I have a few climbers doing well too, 2 Passiflora, 2 Clematis, Solanum Jasminoides and a Sollya Hetrophllya.

 

Just a quick two pics of two of my containers/pots.

 

nothing really, a few house plants that have to be moved in and out during the winter/summer etc. some of which I am ready to toss. tired of messing with them.