On Todays 5minute Friday, we are going to show you how to pot up a Gaura Container.
These plants will come back every year, flowering and just getting better and better.
These long flowering perennial plants are fantastic in a container and will bring colour from late spring, all the way through to the early autumn.
Another thing that makes Gaura plants ideal for a container, is they are very low maintenance. With the exception of watering and the occasional dead heading, they are happy to carry on producing a fantastic show, with not a lot of input from you.
See our Gaura plants here
- Fill your pot, with a multi-purpose compost, almost all the way to the top.
- We are planting 9cm pots, so they need to sit evenly with the soil.
- Tap it down to release any air gaps. Then just add a little more compost, if necessary.
- We have 3 Gaura, white, pink and deep red. These will flower almost all the way to the autumn.
- Squeeze the pot to release the plant, and just place it down onto the compost, repeat the process for each plant. Then just fill the gaps with the compost, I am not compressing it.
- These are hardy perennials, so now just give them a water and they can go straight outside.
