Pyracantha So In Buried Pots

[Hard@it]

Want to put 4 Pyracanthus in 250dia pots and plant them in soil, at present they are one metre tall. Will this be ok for the future ?

[woofgang]

so you have put them in pots then buried the pots in the ground....why?

[Hard@it]

To inhibit roots.

[jno]

those things do grow if you don't watch them. The people next door planted a llittle shrub against our wall. When it was two storeys high we had to get it cut down before its roots broke up our floor. But why put them in the ground if they're in pots?

[1ozzy]

Don't see why not. I'd make sure there was plenty of rubble under the pots to ensure decent drainage.

[1ozzy]

Pyracantha can be planted in most soil conditions as long as the site is not waterlogged. They do grow better in fertile, well-drained soil but it will also do well in dry or clay soils.

www.pyracantha.co.uk/pyracantha/

[Hard@it]

Thanks 1ozzy, think you know what I want to do, they will be kept to 2m tall in pots on rubble. Made a mistake not putting this in gardening section

[woofgang]

I am not sure that the pots will work.....the roots of pyracantha are very strong and pervasive and if you bury the pots, it will be very easy for the plants to send roots through the drainage holes and into the soil and then you are lost. As the pots and roots will be hidden from sight, you won’t know its happening until its too late.