What plants are good for pots in autumn?
The best plants for autumn planters include chrysanthemums, sedums, heathers, rudbeckia, ornamental grasses, and hardy perennials like ferns and hellebores. These plants thrive in cooler temperatures and provide long-lasting visual appeal. A few of our favourite low maintenance plants include Buxus Balls, Cordylines, Eucalyptus, Fatsia Caster Oil, Ornamental Grasses and Palms and each of these plants are hardy and evergreen meaning you will have all year round structure within your garden displays.These include hardy evergreen foliage plants like yucca, English ivy, variegated euonymus and heuchera, and flowering plants like Skimmia japonica and hebes. Evergreens tend to be best for year-round pot displays as they are always in leaf and therefore always have something to offer the display.
What plants are not suitable for self-watering pots?
Avoid using drought-tolerant plants like succulents, cacti, snake plants, and ZZ plants in self-watering pots. These plants prefer dry soil and are prone to root rot if the soil stays too moist. Problems with Self-Watering Containers Roots can easily extend through the pot’s drainage holes into the reservoir, leaving them submerged and stagnant in water, eventually leading to rot. Unfortunately, most self-watering pots don’t provide a mechanism to remove excess water, exacerbating this problem.