Putting a container in a flower bed
I'm going to move a large terracotta container with a large, mature tess of the d's rose in it (container and all) onto an empty space in a flower bed but I'm dithering over whether or not to put a plate or something under it.
The plate would stop the roots going into the soil and hold onto the water but maybe contact with the soil would allow it to soak up moisture or maybe it would leach it out. And then there's the possible ant nest issue
As you see, I'm all of a dither
Any advice would be welcome.
The plate would stop the roots going into the soil and hold onto the water but maybe contact with the soil would allow it to soak up moisture or maybe it would leach it out. And then there's the possible ant nest issue
As you see, I'm all of a dither
Any advice would be welcome.
In London. Keen but lazy.
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We put it on an old dinner plate which promptly smashed so drainage won't be a problem and we can move her if she sulks.
We put the trellis panel back afterwards but Tess was eventually re-planted in the back garden against a south facing trellis and with a shelter belt behind to stop cold winter winds and she did very well. Lovely rose.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
Literally,within six weeks she was produceng healthy leaves and flowers.
Another thing I'd done wrong was to allow things like geranium s and toadflax to self seed in the container.