Low-Maintenance Evergreen Pots That Look Great All Year-Round

Especially love the dwarf conifers in pots ~ such pretty shapes and colours. One of my favourites is the Mugo.

Love your videos Alexandra, so inspiring. Gorgeous Doggie too 🥰❤🐾🐾🌳

Just found your superb site.Great suggestions & advice.Thank You.

forgot to mention zone 5

Hello , in Canada have grown box in.pots for the last 3 winters zone 6 very successful , both large and small containers

Can you show how your going to stake the dahilas?

Very informative as usual thank you. Will these evergreens here, be suitable for exposed sites?

Love your wonderful videos you are so good at explaining thank you 🙏😇🙏❤️

So glad i found this chanel its been so useful for me who has no clue and a large garden to maintain. I'm gaining info as i go thank-you

Hi Alexandra! I'd love to know your opinion on Pieris (Pieris Japonica) as an evergreen and frost-hardy plant to put in a pot. Do you have experience with it? Thanks!!!!

Love the various pots in your garden. Could you please tell us where you source them from?

I have just started watching your channel and am enjoying it very much. Hellooooo from - as far away from Britain as can possibly be - New Zealand! I have our New Zealand Cordyline - a purple version - in a pot on my deck. It does very well and needs hardly any attention. Another plant that I found is fantastic in a pot - looks great all year round, only needs watering - is the dwarf Nandina: a pot success story if ever there was one!

I love your videos I’ve learned so much thank you 🙏🦋🙏❤️

Me again - it’s geranium Maderense 😊

This was so helpful. I’ve basically been doing it all wrong since I moved back to the UK a few months ago. I thought the rain would be enough to water my pots but no! Now I’m going to water them more often. Also I planted bulbs far too sparsely and they look really wimpy, so next year…. Also I didn’t put fertilizer into the compost when I planted them. Next year will be better - thanks to Dan and you!

You are so good at explaining, I am new to gardening and have popped back to your videos for reference many times, discovered other helpful tips from people you have mentioned or interviewed. Love your garden. Thanks for all your help and information.

Great video Alexander. Thank you for mentioning the giant pots outside Kings Cross Station - they are stunning and a real pleasure for me to see them each time I arrive in London.

Skimmia in pots - that's really something. I'd never think of that, and I love Skimmia.

Ah, perfect timing! After a truly crazy hectic year involving various medical emergencies and a stressful move from our southwest France urban potager, we are now settled in our new home near Portugal's Silver Coast, and well enough now to begin to tackle our huge but completely bare rooftop terrace which flanks a birdsong-filled copse. Great ideas about pots, especially relating to size as heat and wind are concerns. I feel again connected to the uplifting world of gardeners. Thank you!

We live in Canada. Our winters can get cold. -30°c. Would and evergreen survive?O should I bring them inside. Which would not be ideal.

I like to buy small conifers when they are on sale around Christmas to use for container plants. However, I found out that Norfolk pines are from Norfolk Island off of New Zealand. They are not cold hardy evergreens, but make wonderful houseplants.

Wonderful information!

Great ideas! I have an old trash can, an old juniper, some big pots, some june grass seeds, and some blue grama grass that probably gets too wet. I am putting them all together where I dismantled the fire pit and it will be great.

This was quite informative. Thank you!

I daydream of making my own ginormous pots for certain areas of my garden!

Some day!!

So informative, and being in US 9B, I find your videos so informative and smart! Thank you and cheers to Spring on the horizon ☘️

Really very helpful video, I've been doing evergreen pots for a few years now but never thought of grasses. I wonder if you've tried bamboo? It's one of the few that wasn't successful and I'm not sure why? Euphorbia mellifera has been great should anyone want to try it.

Many different "regular" large-species conifers can also be shaped into topiary or hedges too, like hemlocks and spruces. The ones that come to mind are Western Hemlock, Sitka Spruce (both are natives here to the Pacific Northwest), and Alberta Spruce. We have an Alberta Spruce spiral topiary.

What about Hebe's? So many varieties with different leaf colours and shapes and beautiful long lasting flowers?

Gardening gold thank you Alexander 🙏🏻💚🌱

Morning Alexandra, so lovely to listen to your garden advice. The Juniper tree in the pot, to me that is so stunning. You mentioned it can grow to 30 ft maybe just et a bigger container, perhaps you can do it yourself or get hubby to assist. Can you pick these berries, are they good to use in cooking, then I will definitely do everything to keep it contained. Grasses are truly lovely, they can be used everywhere, borders, pots, fillers in etc., such a variety. Have to go, must go and get ready, do some baking, tomorrow in my celebration day, looking forward to a day filled with blessings. Wish you were closer to have tea with me and enjoy the baking. I will think of you. Many blessings and happy gardening and remaking, enjoy and be happy. Kind regards, Elize

Thank you

Camellias and Traechelospermum jasminoides do well for me in pots !

Another great video. Thank you. : )

I have been growing in pots salix gracilistyla, red twig dogwoods, baby blue spruces and hinoki cyprus. They are not all evergreens but they all bring great winter interest.😃

Alexandra, another wonderful video, great inspiration ! Thank you

I have 2 large containers and been wondering what to do with them. Thank you for providing ideas.

I am growing sedum autumn joy in pots.Great sustitute for box as they "round up" really well.
I tie some string around the middle of them if they look lke they might fall apart!

Love, love, love all your evergreens in pots. I’ve commented on your Mugo pines before :). They’re lovely!

What are the Purple flowers? What kind of Lavender? Lovely video. Thx

I love the pots

Love everything: the succulents and the potted sword fern in the urn, so nice. I wish the English Boxwood the best of luck, despite not being a brit it's iconic of a cottage look. Hopefully a resistant variety will surface.

I want to use more decorative grass in my garden but I don't know what is indigineous to my area (haven't researched). Any quick reference guide to recommend? (I do not live in the UK). I'm afraid of planting non-indiginous decorative grass because I'm afraid it might escape from my garden, go rogue, and become a public nuisance. What do experts say? Should decorative grasses be indiginous? What are the chances of them becoming a public nuisance over time?

We need to plant more yew much better than box, but what out it only good for a few thousand years

Love your videos, Alexandra. Many azaleas and camelias do well in pots here in Atlanta, GA. Some viburnums and gardenias also do nicely, staying green throughout the winter.

Box blight has been around for years, not always fatal but normally enough damage to make it pointless to carry on using the plant, but worse is the Box Tree caterpillar, the speed with which they devour the plant has to be experienced.
I lost all my box topiary two years ago including two seven spiral ones thirty years old, if caught early you can spray but you have to continously do so and still the caterpillar returns, there is no predior for the pest in Europe so Box is not worth the risk anymore until they find a pesticide that works and a cure for the blight.
For larger topiary items simply use Yew.

Such an important video for me. I’ve had failures with some plants in pots growing so quickly they become root bound, namely mandevilla and asparagus ferns. They take a lot of dealing with. I’m wanting very much to put roses in pots but I’m not sure how long they would last in the pots. I would love to do a tree but worry about root boundedness. I loved your ideas and information on the evergreens. I just purchased 4 box woods as I am trying to make a hedge 😓

I love evergreens in pots. I like the versatility of moving potted evergreens out into borders in the winter when trees lose leaves and then moving them into sun again in summer