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Q&A: What are the best potted plants? Are there dahlias you would recommend growing from seed? Which plants are ideal for shade?

grow, cook, eat, arrange with Sarah Raven & friends

Sarah Raven

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🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the first of March’s Q&A podcast episodes, where Head Gardener Josie Lewis joins Sarah to directly answer questions from our listeners. In this month’s episode, we look at the plant varieties best suited to pots with consideration for both small tabletop and larger floor pots, Sarah & Josie share the Dahlias that they’d most recommend growing from seed, and we discover the perfect plants for varying levels of shade. See our events: https://www.sarahraven.com/courses-events ...

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another Q&A for GrowCookie to Range, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven,

0:10.6

and Josie Lewis O'Higarner is going to help me with all the horticultural questions and help with the answers.

0:16.9

So for March, we're going to kick off with the question, which, what are the best plants for pots?

0:23.4

Quite a huge question.

0:25.5

We like this question.

0:26.8

There's so many answers.

0:28.9

Very open-ending.

0:29.8

Yes.

0:30.1

You start, Josie.

0:32.1

So best plants for pots, I would always tend towards dahlias because you're going to have months of flower.

0:39.1

We talked in February about the filler, the thriller and the spiller.

0:45.5

So the dahlia would be my thriller.

0:48.6

So let's go with, well, let's go with Sarah Raven.

0:51.6

That's a good dahlia for a pot.

0:54.0

And fill it in with panic and prostit explosion or sparkling fountain.

0:59.3

And then, oh, I put maybe a rhodocytin.

1:02.8

Actually, as a climber, so you've got the upward pillar

1:07.6

and also let it spill over the edge.

1:10.6

So you've got it doing two things. So train

1:13.0

some up, let some spill. And then you've got a lovely three pot combination. So any delias for

1:20.6

pots really would be always my first choice. What about you? When I'm going to trial fields

1:26.6

with you or with Tom Stimson, for instance,

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