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[AJuff]

We have a square patio with kitchen wall/window on one side, orangery on another and a wall and railings to the other sides. OH says we need pots with plants and flowers in them on the patio. So I've put things into pots in a range of sides and put them on the patio.

It just looks like they are lined up with no order to them at all. I don't know how to arrange them so they look nice. Anyone got any nice photos of pots looking nice and natural?

 

Yours hopefully . . .

[Valkyrie]

Er, mine are strategically placed around a fuschia to stop the chickens eating it!

[Christian]

Small groups of pots in different sizes look nice.

[Falkor]

And try to make sure your groups are staggered in height and are odd numbers

 

I knew I'd learnt something when I trained as a florist!

[AJuff]

I'll go back out tonight and move them about and see if they look better.

[HENthusiastic]

a friend of mine always says to put pots in groups of threes (different sizes!)

[BarbaraJ]

yes groups rather than lines, no pics sorry as they are long gone but we had 3's and a few odd ones.

[chick wiggle]

I used different shaped, coloured pots and used some old kitchen chairs to differ the heights

Hope this gives you some ideas

[chickenanne]

I would definitly go for grouping them in mixed sizes, it would look more natural, and if poss mixed heights - I really like chickwiggles idea of lifting some of them up. Unless you plant exactly the same pots with the same plants and put them in straight lines at equal intervals - a very formal scheme in other words, if that's more your thing.

Another thing I reckon looks nice is to have some with a bit of height - maybe for next summer grow some sweetpeas up an obelisk, or in a pot, but trained out along the railings?

[Vivihen]

Hanging baskets and climbers in pots to break up the expanse of wall e.g. tomatoes, strawberries, passion fruit.

[AJuff]

Well I've been out and rearranged them in odd numbers, at different heights and what a difference. It actually looks very nice now. Thank you. what would i do without the forum?

[Happy-Mama]

the pots sounds lovely have you got any pictures AJuff? I am contemplating using pots of plants when I move house and would love to see what you have done with yours as I havent got a clue