10 Lazy Perennials That THRIVE in Pots - No Maintenance Container Garden
Half my perennials live in pots - and half of those are doing better than the bed versions ever did.
I added containers to my garden about ten years ago. My back asked me to. The bending, the tilling, the digging out an invasive perennial a year too late - none of that happens in a pot. You move the pot to follow the light. You roll it across the patio on a wheeled tray. You replace the soil in five minutes when it tires.
The catch is - most perennials do not actually thrive in containers. The ten plants in this video are the ones that do not quit. Plant them, water them through July, walk away. Number one is the perennial you have seen in every commercial landscape in America. There is a very specific reason.
Sources referenced in this video:
Mt. Cuba Center (Hockessin, Delaware) - Echinacea Evaluation Report 2018
American Hemerocallis Society - Stout Silver Medal recipient list
Allan Armitage - University of Georgia Department of Horticulture
Perennial Plant Association - Plant of the Year program (Dianthus 'Firewitch' 2006)
If this video helped you, drop a comment with the perennial currently in a pot on YOUR patio and how many years it has lived there. The old container plants are the best stories.
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