@@annebritraaen2237 Another idiot posting stuff it don't know, brains of a rocking horse. I don't live in UK,never taken a penny off of any government, my companies pay all their taxes and iva/btw/vat too.
Yes! They used to have lots of Gardening programs on HDTV, DIY, PBS. Not so much any more. Must be cos building-shows drive sales at sponsor supply shops, which earn more moolah than buying a few dollars worth of plants each season.
Fabulous to watch this dynamic garden loving woman who knows what she's doing and happy to share her knowledge with others. Loved the idea of baseless pots.
Ohhh, I’ve been making raised beds pots of varying heights and sizes for this very reason. Just today I was wishing they made bottomless pots! It never occurred to me to cut the bottom out. Thank you!
My daughter and I are loving this idea! We live in Florida so winters are mild climate to GB. This also makes it harder for weeds to grow into your plant since it’s raised quite a bit off the ground and brings out the individual plants. We will be using this method for sure!!!! Thank you so much.
I LOVE this idea. I'm a minimalist so I appreciate a clean look. Baseless pots will give me the exact look I'm going for. Wish I'd known of this idea YEARS ago, but happy to have found out about it.
A safety tip don't pull your grinder backwards when grinding it is far too dangerous ; because of the way the grinding wheel rotates; the wheel will fly up at your body if it gets stuck; if grinding and going forward and it jams it will make the angle grinder go away from your body
Good to know, thanks for that. (I thought she could've done with a pair of goggles, as well.) No worries grinder-wise for me, I can barely lift that tool. Thats why God invented husbands!
Thank you so much for the information. I am off to the hardware store to buy this tool. I probably would have easily made that mistake. Saved me from injury.
Brilliant. I never occurred to me to cut the bottoms. Now I am going to do this. I have 4 lovely wooden boxes, going to take the slats out of the bottom and put them along the side of an arbour to grow roses over. I will bitumen the inside of these and put plastic liner inside too. Bunne knows her stuff. Nancy T
Ya, this seems great ...I usually make sure the hole in the bottom is covered by a rock. Your way will definitely changed my perspective on pots. Having drainage is important . Now, I make raised boxes with no bottom except cardboard, then twigs and branches on the bottom, and layering leaves next and then ,with different soils until I finish off with my richest soil. So far it’s working, but growing organic food is really difficult, because every creature wants to eat it first. Lots of caterpillars on my broccoli, and Brussels sprouts...had to toss them..finally gave in and set up a Monarch Butterfly station with milkweed and nectar flowers, Asters. So much joy to watch!
I found wood ash (from burning wood) helps with Broccoli bugs. I work it in the soil where anthem Broccoli will be planted in the Fall, and add a bit more in early spring before planting. No bugs for 6 years so far.
this is one of the best videos I have ever seen !!!! love it. thank you. I love the confidence you have when removing the bases from these super expensive terracotta pots, impressive.
If plastic is all you can afford you could try painting them. Use a light grain sandpaper to help the paint stick. Or cover them with something else like the chicken basket idea. Papier mache can be moulded as you please. Painted and sprayed with clear car varnish will protect it. Or mesh/chicken wire decorated as you please, yarnbombing perhaps.
Run trickle of water with a hose in front of the grinder. I've done it for years cutting tiles, never had any dangers and no choking clouds of dust, only a trail of wet waste.
This video popped up in my notifications. It's great to see someone so elegant do something as common as using an angle grinder. lol. Someone can be beautiful smart and strong. I'll definitely be looking for more of your videos.
This is one of the best videos I’ve ever watched. I’ve come back to it over and over. Thank you for being an incredible inspiration to me in my small backyard garden in the states.
First off... awesome video. Already knew but wanted to see what she was up to. Secondly: She said POTS several times that it reminded me of that drinking game with that awesome song Roxanne. 😎😁
I wholeheartedly can see how fabulous this is. I do this with plastic buckets. It works very well for courgettes, tomatoes, potatoes etc. I always felt a 'complete' bucket inhibited drainage and access to additional soil nutrients. I look forward to the day I can afford to buy beautiful pots, and to be able to ' sabotage ' them by cutting out the bottoms to enable better plant growth. 😁👍🏼. One fine day. xxxxx
Fantastic advice, I have been collecting bottomless pots for years and had just decided to start taking the bottoms of pots I already have but this video expands my possibilities endlessly.
Oh my word....I did not know the pots have no base! So that is how people get their tender evergreens like boxwood to survive in pots in colder climates...their roots are protected by the ground. I love all your pots! Thank you for sharing! 🙏❤️😍
They might be slightly hardier when they are established than they would be in a pot with a base. But a plant directly in the ground is probably hardiest of all.
To put it simply, I m ecstatic to find your glorious garden here. I've seen it in magazines, but never realised how it was planted. I have just one Bay tree in a bottomles s ugly plastic pot, with two halves of an old favourite terracotta ,which was cracked. I have gravel and mean soil over hillside rocks; and shrubs struggling - but not for long! Thank you very much Bunny.
This lady is so sweet and speaks with such passion perfectly that I would love to hire her for my backyard gardening ideas anytime ;) Plus, you gotta love her name just alone...Bunny :))
@@suz567 Yes, thank you very much Suz... I am aware that Bunny is just fine, happy, and doing great where she is. You really need to lighten up. Do not take life so seriously that you forget your sense of humor (or maybe lack of....LOL smh
@@shawncarrell9101 some people just need to be right lol your kind to stick up for Carol Rose...I never understand why people have to pick at others for a typo or a miss statement...life is too short their like the "SOUP NAZI" stop and smell the roses, flowers, blooms it's all the same. Cheers and MUCH LOVE Blessings!!!!
As a potter I see problems. Taking all the bottom out weakens the rest. You can still make a big hole, just not quite that big. Leave an inch or two of the floor of the pot. It is the same principle as the roll of clay at the top.
(Oh! My left ear too!!) This is a wonderful video. Thank you! It has said what I've always thought but didn't dare put into practice. What a lovely garden you have made. Knowledge, experience and practical ability. I realise how little I have done what I'd have liked to do... Without your know how. Brilliant. 👏😊🌺
Very safe and competent use of the grinder. I want to compliment you. I learned of the benefit of bottomless planters by accident when my nice Nano pine was suffering for a few seasons and then perked up and I realized the whiskey barrel had rotted away and the roots found freedom. I built a new planter around it minus a bottom.
Wow! You're kind of a Badass!! (💪) Bottomless pots have always made perfect sense to me!! Thanks for sharing! This is the first time I've seen your channel! I can tell it will be a new favorite!!
Just subbed! I've got a large terra cotta pot with a plant that has its taproot through the drainage hole. It's stopping the water from draining. I want to save it, but don't want to cut the thick taproot. THANKS for this solution - never knew you could just cut the bottom out!
This is one of those videos that while watching my eyes open and I realize my life has just changed. Thank you ~ thank you, Bunny!!! Also I've never loved those composed boxy bushes, but inside a pot they're absolutely giving me plant envy!
Bunny Genius more like it. Where've you been all my life? This is the first I've seen of this channel (subscribed of course). It never occurred to me why my potted plants were so unhappy. By odd coincidence a few nights ago I watched an episode of "Escape to the Country" where the host / agent visited Whichford Pottery in Warwickshire and was invited to try her hand at the potter's wheel. The owner explained that they make frost-proof, not frost-resistant, pots through a family recipe of the clay they blend themselves.
Thanks for confirming my “sense” on this.... I recently removed a dead-looking tree that had volunteered in one of my large pots.... The roots had actually grown through the drainage hole in the bottom. of the pot and into the soil below... Amazing, after an hour of struggling, a friend and I were able to get the dead-looking (and dry) tree out of the pot and I temporarily stuck it in the very large pot and prayed that it lived.... Amazingly a few weeks later, I noticed green leaves sprouting from the “stick!!” It’s alive!!
So happy to have found your channel. So much great content and brilliant design. I’m from the US but love formal English gardens. I watched all your video and would love to see more 💕
I have started using bottomless pots on my border - the tree and shrub roots make it impossible to dig for flowering plants. Then fill pots with annuals at a slightly higher level to garden to make border look fuller and bring colour up.
Oh thank you for this video. I have a nieghbor I dislike and needed an idea like this to block the view to his house. It's elegant and practical. Thank you for sharing!!
I've been thinking about doing that. It's a wonderful way to allow plants to grow connected to the ground. It's like having mini-raised beds. Plants would grow healthier with less need for care I would think.
I've seen people with plants in buckets and plastic pots for over ten years with little to no drainage and grow quite fine. As someone said these are just raised beds with a twist
Reminder: Make damn sure you don't do this without first checking that the potted plant is ok to have growning outside of a pot. Because some plants dig their roots deep and will grow like weeds if they have access to a larger area. Knotweed for instance should absolutely not be grown outside of isolated pots no matter how pretty the leaves are. You basically can't get rid of them where you don't want them without *replacing all of the soil* so that there aren't any roots hiding left behind. Jerusalem artichoke (a sunflower relative) can also wind up growing outside of your pot if you do this, though it is far less of a hassle than Knotweed
I have been saying that I want to do this for a long time but I am terrified of cutting a pot that I spend so much money on. You are the first person I have ever seen do this. I knew I couldn’t be the only person to have thought of it
Yes that's had me wondering from the start. Great idea but the cost of those size pots plus the soil needed to fill them would be prohibitive for most people. Also even just transporting those massive pots to your house would be another big expenditure.
No this is a pot with the bottom cut out. Lol that would be like calling a raised bed hugelkultur. (It is) but it's a pot and not a bed. A bed is as to a hugelkultur mound. Just different in appearance but similar in soil prep and biology. Dont be passively negative or others will chime in with their crap just like I did. Lol
@@hairybass480 Thank you for teaching me how to spell that word - hugelkultur. I've heard it, but never paid attention to its spelling. I'm sorry if you took my comment as being negative. I'm a pretty positive person and try to look at things positively. Have a nice day!
I love the idea of instant height. I planning to make a few square cement cloth pots and then line them up on my fence and plant my little boxwoods into them to have a head start on my screening out the neighbor. It will also look very nice if i decorate the pots a bit or paint them...so many possibilities. Thank you!
This totally makes sense. I always say that the compost breaks down and then it compacts down and suffocates the plant. I have to lift the plant after a few years and put new dirt in.
Consider sewer tile for bottomless pots. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes and they might be free if you can source them from a construction supplier. Also many are open on both ends so no need to cut out a solid bottom. I have three I got from somewhere. They are 1 inch thick, 1.5 foot square and 4 foot tall. They are matte finish and the color is terra cotta, just like a garden pot. I would guess sewer tile is frost proof. Mine have survived many Midwest USA winters though I have never planted them.
Lol my mom planted a couple figs in wooden barrels with the idea of moving them if she wanted to. They broke through the bottom of their barrels, so there they stayed.
I have grown runner beans in plastic pots with bases removed for years on the edge of my lawn with canes fastened to my washing line.Changed compost yearly and didn't do lawn much good but it soon recovered..As an elderly lady it was manageable for me and always a good crop.
Just brilliant and the perfect solution when you can't dig a hole to plant something. Just finding someone who will cut out the bottom is the problem for me. thank you so much for this information.
Why couldn't you take a hole to plant something? She is making the point that in order to make this method work, she makes sure there is 3 ft of soil underneath the bottomless pot. I'm not quite understanding what the purpose of the pot is why not just dig a hole and plant the darn plant in the ground?
@@plucas9324 she explains it. It's to bring the plants up to eye level. Or to embellish your garden with big beautiful pots that are way to easy to maintain because it would never have those normal potted plant issues.
Sounds very interesting. My experience with Terra cotta planters is that after a while they start to crack and need to be replaced. What happens if I have to replace a large pot plant that has already taken root in the earth?
Thats why she said frost proof and not frost resistant. The two things that break the pots are the roots and freezing. With an open bottom roots wont be an issue. Beware of fake Chinese pots that are way too thin.
Then you'd have to somehow slice the roots off at ground level under the pot and cut back the plant to allow for the shock of the loss of roots and hope it survives!
Do you then reuse the bases that have been cut out of the terracotta pots as paving stones or other such decorative elements? I'm tight so I would definitely do so; especially since it would be a complete waste of all the environmental impact & embodied energy that went into the sourcing, manufacturing & transportation of those pots. Using the angle grinder, I can see the bases being cut up to whatever shape that's desired & used to edge paths, or in place of rocks in rockeries, or inserted into a brick or stone wall at different heights to form mini shelves for pots with say, trailing Begonias or succulents put out for the summer; the list is almost endless. It's not terribly attractive but I use the large plastic hot H20 loft tanks that people throw out when converting to a combi boiler system. The H20 header tanks are also great planters. Remove fittings, drill plenty of holes for drainage & off you go. Can be thoroughly cleaned, undercoated with plastic spray primer and then painted according to requirement. I don't bother, just plant trailing plant's to hide plastic container or include lots of other pots around them. When plants grow up, you can't see the containers anyway. I've 5 enormous tanks that were free out of people's front gardens (asked permission) & accompanying header tanks - saved approx £1,100 on containers which I couldn't have afforded normally & have stuffed them with large shrubs. Spoke to a local plumber a couple of years ago @ a carboot sale (those were the days - no COVID-19) & he had loads of these tanks which he used to grow veg & had many spare. So it might be possible to check with local plumbers to see if they've any going spare - saves them paying rubbish tip disposal fees. Using these is the ultimate reduce, reuse, recycle; especially when it comes to plastic that would never be recycled & go into landfills. Very handy for community garden schemes.
I wasn't ready for this video to end. I could've watched a 2 hour video on bottomless pots. Thank you for the great content!
Very true
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95% l see a woman talking about pots. Boring and time wasting👎
Y’all have such gorgeous ‘stuff’ in Britain...from pots to trellises to pergolas, it’s all so lovely.
They also have loads of foreigners living off of the backs of others.
@@CarlosAlberto-ii1li You know what they say; It takes one to know one.
@@annebritraaen2237 Another idiot posting stuff it don't know, brains of a rocking horse. I don't live in UK,never taken a penny off of any government, my companies pay all their taxes and iva/btw/vat too.
@@CarlosAlberto-ii1li no we dont, stop spreading right wing bullshit
How do you not have a series? Named Bunny + Delightful accent + Elegant landscaping + Angle grinder = HGTV Gold.
Yes! They used to have lots of Gardening programs on HDTV, DIY, PBS. Not so much any more.
Must be cos building-shows drive sales at sponsor supply shops, which earn more moolah than buying a few dollars worth of plants each season.
Agree!!!
Fabulous to watch this dynamic garden loving woman who knows what she's doing and happy to share her knowledge with others. Loved the idea of baseless pots.
My left ear enjoyed listening to you.
I thought my headphones were broken! Glad you commented lol
Lol
@@justineb8084 same here!
Lol wtf 😂
Same here 😂
Wow! This is the BEST tip that I've ever come across, in all my years of gardening! I'm so glad that I clicked on to this video! Thank you!
Same here!! Brilliant idea!
Agree!!!
Ohhh, I’ve been making raised beds pots of varying heights and sizes for this very reason. Just today I was wishing they made bottomless pots! It never occurred to me to cut the bottom out. Thank you!
My daughter and I are loving this idea! We live in Florida so winters are mild climate to GB. This also makes it harder for weeds to grow into your plant since it’s raised quite a bit off the ground and brings out the individual plants. We will be using this method for sure!!!! Thank you so much.
I LOVE this idea. I'm a minimalist so I appreciate a clean look. Baseless pots will give me the exact look I'm going for. Wish I'd known of this idea YEARS ago, but happy to have found out about it.
Bunny: You are a genius and a goddess to my gardening muse. Thank you, Lady.
I love pretty pots but I also agree that nothing beats soil planting so this is like the best compromise
At last, putting a face to the voice. Thanks for these wonderful ideas, Bunny. Much love x
Your home and garden are spectacular. Just beautiful.
A safety tip don't pull your grinder backwards when grinding it is far too dangerous ; because of the way the grinding wheel rotates; the wheel will fly up at your body if it gets stuck; if grinding and going forward and it jams it will make the angle grinder go away from your body
Good to know, thanks for that.
(I thought she could've done with a pair of goggles, as well.)
No worries grinder-wise for me, I can barely lift that tool.
Thats why God invented husbands!
@@youresoakinginit2113 she was wearing goggles in the shot while grinding!
Also ear protection
Thank you so much for the information. I am off to the hardware store to buy this tool. I probably would have easily made that mistake. Saved me from injury.
And wear ear protection
You have me sold out on planting with pots. I will try using your technique.
Brilliant. I never occurred to me to cut the bottoms. Now I am going to do this.
I have 4 lovely wooden boxes, going to take the slats out of the bottom and put them along the side of an arbour to grow roses over. I will bitumen the inside of these and put plastic liner inside too. Bunne knows her stuff. Nancy T
Ya, this seems great ...I usually make sure the hole in the bottom is covered by a rock. Your way will definitely changed my perspective on pots. Having drainage is important . Now, I make raised boxes with no bottom except cardboard, then twigs and branches on the bottom, and layering leaves next and then ,with different soils until I finish off with my richest soil. So far it’s working, but growing organic food is really difficult, because every creature wants to eat it first. Lots of caterpillars on my broccoli, and Brussels sprouts...had to toss them..finally gave in and set up a Monarch Butterfly station with milkweed and nectar flowers, Asters. So much joy to watch!
I found wood ash (from burning wood) helps with Broccoli bugs. I work it in the soil where anthem Broccoli will be planted in the Fall, and add a bit more in early spring before planting. No bugs for 6 years so far.
this is one of the best videos I have ever seen !!!! love it. thank you. I love the confidence you have when removing the bases from these super expensive terracotta pots, impressive.
Those huge pots are so beautiful! I wish they were not so expensive!!! I LOVE this idea!
If plastic is all you can afford you could try painting them. Use a light grain sandpaper to help the paint stick. Or cover them with something else like the chicken basket idea. Papier mache can be moulded as you please. Painted and sprayed with clear car varnish will protect it. Or mesh/chicken wire decorated as you please, yarnbombing perhaps.
I have just this moment come across your channel. A few years on, but so informative . Thank you so much. South Africa.
Run trickle of water with a hose in front of the grinder. I've done it for years cutting tiles, never had any dangers and no choking clouds of dust, only a trail of wet waste.
Yes good point we do that when working in built up areas stops all dust 🐇
Also helps when you're drilling a pot with no drainage
Bunny you explain & share your experience, and I’m very grateful.
Thank you .
This video popped up in my notifications. It's great to see someone so elegant do something as common as using an angle grinder. lol. Someone can be beautiful smart and strong. I'll definitely be looking for more of your videos.
TY for sharing!! I've often thought of this... but have never, ever seen it demonstrated... genius! Cheers!
This is one of the best videos I’ve ever watched. I’ve come back to it over and over. Thank you for being an incredible inspiration to me in my small backyard garden in the states.
First off... awesome video. Already knew but wanted to see what she was up to. Secondly: She said POTS several times that it reminded me of that drinking game with that awesome song Roxanne. 😎😁
I wholeheartedly can see how fabulous this is. I do this with plastic buckets. It works very well for courgettes, tomatoes, potatoes etc. I always felt a 'complete' bucket inhibited drainage and access to additional soil nutrients. I look forward to the day I can afford to buy beautiful pots, and to be able to ' sabotage ' them by cutting out the bottoms to enable better plant growth. 😁👍🏼. One fine day. xxxxx
Fantastic advice, I have been collecting bottomless pots for years and had just decided to start taking the bottoms of pots I already have but this video expands my possibilities endlessly.
Oh my word....I did not know the pots have no base! So that is how people get their tender evergreens like boxwood to survive in pots in colder climates...their roots are protected by the ground. I love all your pots! Thank you for sharing! 🙏❤️😍
They might be slightly hardier when they are established than they would be in a pot with a base. But a plant directly in the ground is probably hardiest of all.
I first didn’t get the point. But WOW those huge cover pots make the garden look so professional and put together.
What a great idea and so simple. Thanks Bunny for brilliant inspiration as always. I’m off to get rid of the bottom of some of my pots!
To put it simply, I m ecstatic to find your glorious garden here. I've seen it in magazines, but never realised how it was planted. I have just one Bay tree in a bottomles s ugly plastic pot, with two halves of an old favourite terracotta ,which was cracked. I have gravel and mean soil over hillside rocks; and shrubs struggling - but not for long! Thank you very much Bunny.
Great info thanks! Would love to see more of your gardens...tour?😊
What you say is true! Last year, I have figured this out on my own started taking the bottom off my pots and it has made a big difference!
Brilliant idea! I have tons of bunnies that love to eat my plants so I have to fence them off which is really ugly, what a much better idea!
I look forward to a Bunny Guinness line of baseless pots! Thank you for this. 🙏✨💕
This lady is so sweet and speaks with such passion perfectly that I would love to hire her for my backyard gardening ideas anytime ;)
Plus, you gotta love her name just alone...Bunny :))
Yes, but It doesn’t seem she needs hiring 😉
@@suz567 Yes, thank you very much Suz... I am aware that Bunny is just fine, happy, and doing great where she is. You really need to lighten up. Do not take life so seriously that you forget your sense of humor (or maybe lack of....LOL smh
What a lovely lady, fab video and such a clever idea re taking the bottom our of the terracotta pots. Who knew/ Thank You Bunny G. :-) xx
Well now I know where she got her great arms!
Those large terracotta pots are glorious. I love large pots!
What a wonderful idea...why didn’t I think of that? Your a world of information and I appreciate that I found you! Thank you.
In case you're wondering, the phrase is "wealth" of information. Not WORLD.
Ma Wi So what? Who cares, I knew what she meant. She was being thankful and kind. What she said didn’t change any meaning....Kindness goes a long way.
@@shawncarrell9101 some people just need to be right lol your kind to stick up for Carol Rose...I never understand why people have to pick at others for a typo or a miss statement...life is too short their like the "SOUP NAZI" stop and smell the roses, flowers, blooms it's all the same. Cheers and MUCH LOVE Blessings!!!!
Ma Wi
I think most of these comments must be paid for
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Thank you for sharing your wonderful suggestion regarding the bottom of the pots...I love it!! Makes PERFECT sense!!
As a potter I see problems. Taking all the bottom out weakens the rest. You can still make a big hole, just not quite that big. Leave an inch or two of the floor of the pot. It is the same principle as the roll of clay at the top.
@ I think he means it weakens the strength of the whole pot, because the base helps to stop the sides being weak.
I concur. Structural physics ain’t rocket science.
True except what remains is still strong enough. Otherwise we'd be hearing about them breaking all the time.
@ Oh I get you :)
And I should add that tandoor ovens, at least in India, are made as a bottomless clay pot
Thank you for posting this video and sharing your knowledge about planting in pots.
Yes a brilliant idea. I love clever and this is definitely clever. Thank you for this idea. I will be trying this in my front yard.
(Oh! My left ear too!!) This is a wonderful video. Thank you! It has said what I've always thought but didn't dare put into practice. What a lovely garden you have made. Knowledge, experience and practical ability. I realise how little I have done what I'd have liked to do... Without your know how. Brilliant. 👏😊🌺
Absolutely gorgeous. My garden needs some of that structure, but hard to look after. What a brilliant idea.
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Thank You for Sharing your beautiful landscape art and your wonderful idea. 😍
Clever! I have never thought of this.
Very safe and competent use of the grinder. I want to compliment you. I learned of the benefit of bottomless planters by accident when my nice Nano pine was suffering for a few seasons and then perked up and I realized the whiskey barrel had rotted away and the roots found freedom. I built a new planter around it minus a bottom.
Wow! You're kind of a Badass!! (💪) Bottomless pots have always made perfect sense to me!! Thanks for sharing! This is the first time I've seen your channel! I can tell it will be a new favorite!!
this is great. thank you, I have quickly begun to do this and already have amazing results especially on my allotment. Brilliant video
Just subbed! I've got a large terra cotta pot with a plant that has its taproot through the drainage hole. It's stopping the water from draining. I want to save it, but don't want to cut the thick taproot. THANKS for this solution - never knew you could just cut the bottom out!
@Bunny Guiness Girl, you Rockin them bottomless pots into Heavenly Beautiful! All of it SO Inspirational. Thanks Bunny!.
Incredible! Just discovered your channel and I’m already hooked.
I did this with a climbing rose….who knew it was actually a “thing”. I can’t wait to do more!
As a garden designer I could not agree more, loved seeing you with the angle grinder !
This is one of those videos that while watching my eyes open and I realize my life has just changed. Thank you ~ thank you, Bunny!!! Also I've never loved those composed boxy bushes, but inside a pot they're absolutely giving me plant envy!
Bunny Genius more like it. Where've you been all my life? This is the first I've seen of this channel (subscribed of course). It never occurred to me why my potted plants were so unhappy.
By odd coincidence a few nights ago I watched an episode of "Escape to the Country" where the host / agent visited Whichford Pottery in Warwickshire and was invited to try her hand at the potter's wheel. The owner explained that they make frost-proof, not frost-resistant, pots through a family recipe of the clay they blend themselves.
Thanks for that - it was my producer's favourite comment! 😂
Thanks for confirming my “sense” on this.... I recently removed a dead-looking tree that had volunteered in one of my large pots.... The roots had actually grown through the drainage hole in the bottom. of the pot and into the soil below... Amazing, after an hour of struggling, a friend and I were able to get the dead-looking (and dry) tree out of the pot and I temporarily stuck it in the very large pot and prayed that it lived.... Amazingly a few weeks later, I noticed green leaves sprouting from the “stick!!” It’s alive!!
So happy to have found your channel. So much great content and brilliant design. I’m from the US but love formal English gardens. I watched all your video and would love to see more 💕
Baseless plant pot is a clever tip. Glad I saw this video. Thank you!
I have started using bottomless pots on my border - the tree and shrub roots make it impossible to dig for flowering plants. Then fill pots with annuals at a slightly higher level to garden to make border look fuller and bring colour up.
Tks for sharing
your knowledge.
Oh thank you for this video. I have a nieghbor I dislike and needed an idea like this to block the view to his house. It's elegant and practical. Thank you for sharing!!
Wonderful idea! I can think of a few big pots I have that will do well "bottomless."
I am so glad I watched this... what a brilliant idea!
I've been thinking about doing that. It's a wonderful way to allow plants to grow connected to the ground. It's like having mini-raised beds. Plants would grow healthier with less need for care I would think.
You make great sense, I’ve got about 40 big pots and have a bit of work to do, hi from New Zealand
This is a brilliant idea. Thank you.
Thanks for the ideas. Beautiful gardens. Now I have a plan for a spot in the front of my house.
I've seen people with plants in buckets and plastic pots for over ten years with little to no drainage and grow quite fine. As someone said these are just raised beds with a twist
That’s a great idea, in my mind I see the large round circles you cut out as stepping stones 🙂
Great tips. Thank you for sharing 🌸🌺🌼🌻
Best explanation I have heard regarding this topic.
Reminder: Make damn sure you don't do this without first checking that the potted plant is ok to have growning outside of a pot.
Because some plants dig their roots deep and will grow like weeds if they have access to a larger area. Knotweed for instance should absolutely not be grown outside of isolated pots no matter how pretty the leaves are. You basically can't get rid of them where you don't want them without *replacing all of the soil* so that there aren't any roots hiding left behind. Jerusalem artichoke (a sunflower relative) can also wind up growing outside of your pot if you do this, though it is far less of a hassle than Knotweed
I have been saying that I want to do this for a long time but I am terrified of cutting a pot that I spend so much money on. You are the first person I have ever seen do this. I knew I couldn’t be the only person to have thought of it
I can’t imagine what terra cotta pots that size cost. Yikes!
Yes that's had me wondering from the start. Great idea but the cost of those size pots plus the soil needed to fill them would be prohibitive for most people. Also even just transporting those massive pots to your house would be another big expenditure.
These are also called "raised beds". Just maybe more elegant (and maybe more expensive).
I love British gardens shows also a no-dig garden.
Charles Dowding would approve.
No this is a pot with the bottom cut out. Lol that would be like calling a raised bed hugelkultur. (It is) but it's a pot and not a bed. A bed is as to a hugelkultur mound. Just different in appearance but similar in soil prep and biology. Dont be passively negative or others will chime in with their crap just like I did. Lol
@@hairybass480 Thank you for teaching me how to spell that word - hugelkultur. I've heard it, but never paid attention to its spelling. I'm sorry if you took my comment as being negative. I'm a pretty positive person and try to look at things positively. Have a nice day!
@@kendraball3151 Haha. Hope I wasn't too much of an a hole. Your welcome. You have a nice day as well. :)
Kendra Ball Significantly more expensive I'd say. Those beautiful pots cost a small fortune. Sigh...
BRILLIANT! Thank you for sharing this. So simple, but so sensible!!
I've been doing for years. An easy way to create a raised border.
I love the idea of instant height. I planning to make a few square cement cloth pots and then line them up on my fence and plant my little boxwoods into them to have a head start on my screening out the neighbor. It will also look very nice if i decorate the pots a bit or paint them...so many possibilities. Thank you!
This totally makes sense. I always say that the compost breaks down and then it compacts down and suffocates the plant. I have to lift the plant after a few years and put new dirt in.
You're supposed to replace soil after a year
Well done. The place is fantastic and amazingly beautiful.
I can spend hours just listening to you...You have such a cute accent...
I dont own a house nor a garden, but this is genius! Im saving this for once upon a time.. thank you!
We have three weeping Japanese maple trees planted in bottomless pots planted behind a row of bushes
They have been there a good 10 years
Quite believe it and I bet you have never fed or watered them and they still look fighting fit!
@@bunnyguinness can you give us a list of your top shrubs and small ornamental trees that ypu revommend? love love love this makes perfect sense!
Excellent ideas for a beautiful and personalized garden!!!!! Opened my mind indeed..thanks!!! Greetings from Argentina
Consider sewer tile for bottomless pots. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes and they might be free if you can source them from a construction supplier. Also many are open on both ends so no need to cut out a solid bottom. I have three I got from somewhere. They are 1 inch thick, 1.5 foot square and 4 foot tall. They are matte finish and the color is terra cotta, just like a garden pot. I would guess sewer tile is frost proof. Mine have survived many Midwest USA winters though I have never planted them.
What are sewer tiles? Cant seem to find what you’re talking about
I just googled it and can't find anything. Could it go by another name?
Very clever 👋👋. I would not have about cutting the bottoms out ! Had always wondered how to grow big plants in a pot 🤔 now I know !
Lol my mom planted a couple figs in wooden barrels with the idea of moving them if she wanted to. They broke through the bottom of their barrels, so there they stayed.
Thanks very much. Perfect marriage of nature and nurture
WOW!! Thank you for these enjoyable, interesting and easy tips. Wish UA-cam would have a love choice, like does not cover it!!
I have grown runner beans in plastic pots with bases removed for years on the edge of my lawn with canes fastened to my washing line.Changed compost yearly and didn't do lawn much good but it soon recovered..As an elderly lady it was manageable for me and always a good crop.
Just brilliant and the perfect solution when you can't dig a hole to plant something. Just finding someone who will cut out the bottom is the problem for me. thank you so much for this information.
Why couldn't you take a hole to plant something? She is making the point that in order to make this method work, she makes sure there is 3 ft of soil underneath the bottomless pot. I'm not quite understanding what the purpose of the pot is why not just dig a hole and plant the darn plant in the ground?
@@plucas9324 she explains it. It's to bring the plants up to eye level. Or to embellish your garden with big beautiful pots that are way to easy to maintain because it would never have those normal potted plant issues.
Perhaps she is not physically able to dig a hole?
Sounds very interesting. My experience with Terra cotta planters is that after a while they start to crack and need to be replaced. What happens if I have to replace a large pot plant that has already taken root in the earth?
I was wondering that too.
Thats why she said frost proof and not frost resistant. The two things that break the pots are the roots and freezing. With an open bottom roots wont be an issue. Beware of fake Chinese pots that are way too thin.
Very good question
Then you'd have to somehow slice the roots off at ground level under the pot and cut back the plant to allow for the shock of the loss of roots and hope it survives!
Cat Clark, it’s impossible for such big plants because first you have to get to the bottom of the pot - how do you do that ?
What a wonderful video with so many great ideas. Thank you so much!
Any ideas for using the circles cut from the pots?
Put a bottomless pot on it maybe ...
Dinner plates.
I needed this video! My potted beauties are saved! Also, thumbs up the person who made the headphone comment. Tis true.
Would it be helpful to add water while using the drill/saw
Water and electric gadgets don’t mix. There are specially designed cutters that use water to minimise dust.
It was so nice to learn about a bottomless pot, never heard to it before however I try this style THANKS (USA)
Do you then reuse the bases that have been cut out of the terracotta pots as paving stones or other such decorative elements? I'm tight so I would definitely do so; especially since it would be a complete waste of all the environmental impact & embodied energy that went into the sourcing, manufacturing & transportation of those pots. Using the angle grinder, I can see the bases being cut up to whatever shape that's desired & used to edge paths, or in place of rocks in rockeries, or inserted into a brick or stone wall at different heights to form mini shelves for pots with say, trailing Begonias or succulents put out for the summer; the list is almost endless. It's not terribly attractive but I use the large plastic hot H20 loft tanks that people throw out when converting to a combi boiler system. The H20 header tanks are also great planters. Remove fittings, drill plenty of holes for drainage & off you go. Can be thoroughly cleaned, undercoated with plastic spray primer and then painted according to requirement. I don't bother, just plant trailing plant's to hide plastic container or include lots of other pots around them. When plants grow up, you can't see the containers anyway. I've 5 enormous tanks that were free out of people's front gardens (asked permission) & accompanying header tanks - saved approx £1,100 on containers which I couldn't have afforded normally & have stuffed them with large shrubs. Spoke to a local plumber a couple of years ago @ a carboot sale (those were the days - no COVID-19) & he had loads of these tanks which he used to grow veg & had many spare. So it might be possible to check with local plumbers to see if they've any going spare - saves them paying rubbish tip disposal fees. Using these is the ultimate reduce, reuse, recycle; especially when it comes to plastic that would never be recycled & go into landfills. Very handy for community garden schemes.