Specialty Gardening: Large Container Gardening in City, 1 by podster

podster wrote:
Dale_a_Gardener ~ that is a beautiful large container planting photo! Is the large plant a boxwood?
I grew up in the north and am always astounded at the intense flower colors of the northern climate.
What suggestions would you have to prevent expansion? A liner in a pot? Even then a porous pot could expand and crack were it not sealed...

You also mentioned cutting the bottom from a black plastic pot ~ what a good idea. What do you find works best for cutting the black plastic? I have one I need to do that with.... I have a blue juniper in a pot inside a larger pot. I underplant the larger pot with seasonal color. The juniper will have to either go in ground or have the bottom of the pot opened up... (not a great photo but... )