A POT ! A POT ! A PLACE FOR MY POT!

It all started with the purchase of this lovely Bee Hive Pot! We'd called into a local garden centre just to look for some grasses only to not find the grasses but to instead find this pot.

The garden centre is changing ownership and so was selling everything with large discounts of 25 to 40% off.

Which may the price of this pot very attractive , so we went off to finish our shopping elsewhere but called in on our way home and bought it.

So I had originally thought to place it up near the folly but then decided once it was home , that it would not look right standing in front of the folly with it's grey stone, so now where to site it!

I looked around the garden and spied the birdbath sitting in the border to the side of my studio, if we moved the birdbath the pot could sit there. We already knew we needed to replant this bed due to now having two large dogs. Large dogs unsupervised in a garden are not good for delicate flower beds.

So we moved the birdbath and sat the pot in it's place.

So a few hours later Paul had removed all the perennials in the flowerbed, I bet you didn't realise that bird table was hidden behind those Helenium !

We were about to go away for a couple of days down near Rye on the coast. So left the border to settle.

Paul had two Dicksonia down the end of the garden planted beside next doors hedge but he'd not been happy with their position due to the hedge restricting the fronde's from displaying well. He already mentioned bring them up to this end of the garden before we bought the pot.

So today Paul moved the two Dicksonia's to this restyled bed and we added some tall and also shorter grasses. There are also two clumps of Kniphofia's at the front each side of the pot, to add some nice colour later in the season next year.

It still needs a few low growing plants along the front but the bones are there hopefully for a nice full bed next year.

We'll fence it off for the winter to give them plants a change to establish before the dogs sneak in when we're not look! 

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