BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine

Creating your display

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1 Partially fill your pot with a good-quality peat-free compost, which will serve you well due to its fertility and free-draining properties. Feeding is not required at planting time, but will be necessary after about six weeks – a weekly diluted tomato feed will be sufficient.

2 Create a framework by planting your tall plants first to establish the highest point, in this case, the silver gomphostig­ma. The idea is for the rest of the plants to cascade down in height like flowing water, ending up with the trailing ones around the edge of the pot.

3 Gently tease the roots away from the rootball, if they fill the pot densely, to improve their establishm­ent in the new pot. Otherwise, they will continue to circle round unless we break the cycle and encourage them out into the rest of the compost.

4 Place cascading plants at the edge, the final couple may need to be squeezed in. It’s a fine balance – you want to fill the pot with plants for instant impact, but they will also need room to grow and enough compost to sustain them throughout the summer.

5 Water after planting and then thoroughly every day in summer. Intense planting needs to be tended little and often, and don’t let them dry out. Peat-free composts are free draining so excess water will drain away. Reduce the frequency of watering as temperatur­es drop.

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