Best plants for pots and containers all year round

This tray of 20 Different Alpine Rockery Plants has received exceptionally positive reviews on Amazon with happy customers saying they are absolutely delighted with them and the lovely display they create when potted up.

Grown in a Lincolnshire nursery, these are hardy, healthy, and ready to plant Alpines in peat-free compost. The little Alpines will flower from spring to summer, and make a wonderful addition to containers, troughs, even old sinks, and strawberry planters.

Every plant is different, so you get a good mixture of textures, colour, and types of foliage. These Alpines are supplied in small 9cm pots, but you'll hopefully be pleasantly surprised at how quickly they grow when you plant them out in larger containers.

Thompson and Morgan English Lavender ‘Lavandula Munstead’ is a drought-tolerant plant so it's ideal for a summer-time patio. Lavender has a perennially popular, distinctive fragrance and the linear, clustered flowers attract bees and butterflies, which is always a good thing in our book.

These should be positioned in full sun in well-draining soil. Lavender makes for a lovely low hedge and looks fabulous planted in pots along paths and borders. Plant these up and you'll soon be able to relax and enjoy the calming scent benefits this beautiful plant offers.

When it gets to the end of the flowering season you can pick the flowers and dry them so you can enjoy the therapeutic scent for longer - always a classic for your knicker drawer!

There's hardly a garden without a container of pansies and violas in a UK garden during winter. Acqua Tower Growing Systems' Pansy 'Delta Mix' gives you 20 full plants that bloom in abundance, earlier and longer than other varieties of pansy.

It's another Amazon Choice product and comes from a highly-rated nursery based in Oxfordshire. You can feel uplifted by these sweet blooms throughout the winter, as these cold-tolerant annuals flower both in spring and autumn. The heart-shaped petals come in an array of vibrant colours and can brighten the chilliest of days.

Reviewers appreciate that these plants are supplied as full garden plants, as opposed to more vulnerable pansy plug plants, so can go straight out into your pots, planters, and garden containers. Reports suggest these pansies arrive well packaged and in good health, with many gardeners saying they were budding on arrival.

Thompson and Morgan claim this Geranium 'Best Red' F1 Hybrid had outperformed other geraniums in their trials. It's a half-hardy perennial that keeps its vibrant red flower throughout summer and well into autumn.

This needs to be planted in sun or semi-shade in light, non-acidic, well-drained soil. Geraniums need to be kept frost-free as they are only half-hardy, and regular deadheading will encourage more flowers. Alternatively, geraniums can be overwintered in a greenhouse, otherwise, treat them like an annual.

Reviewers report these plug plants can be slow to get growing, but once they are established will offer you a vibrant show of colour for many months of the year, with the flowers retaining their shape even as they begin to fade.

Get an incredible array of colours with no less than 15 types of petunias in this Thompson & Morgan Petunia 'Easy Wave' Ultimate Mixed bundle. Petunias grow fast and in abundance. Because they are so attractive and easy to grow they have become a staple in many UK gardens offering a multicoloured floral display.

They're a half-hardy annual that enjoys full sun but can also tolerate changeable weather. You can expect blooms from around June to October if you plant these after frosts have passed, and ensure to water regularly.

Petunias are trailing plants, so as well as popping them in classic flower pots and planters, you could consider filling a trough, a window box, or a few hanging baskets for spectacular swathes of colour. This mixed bundle has received hundreds of four- and five-star reviews with customers delighted with the quality of the plants.

Giving a bouquet of chrysanthemums traditionally shows our love for someone dear. Chrysanthemums symbolise joy, love, and optimism in many cultures, so what could be better than to grow them in your garden?

These tall and vibrant Chrysanthemum Amiko Violet blooms attract butterflies and bees and provide long-lasting flowers to perk up your pots. The mauve double blooms flower from late summer, well into autumn, so are a fab solution to ensure you still have some floral colour later in the season. They like full sun and well-drained soil, making them an ideal plant to grow in pots.

This chrysanthemum is supplied in a one-litre pot, but you will need to consider transferring it to a larger container as this can grow up to 60cm tall with a similarly sized spread.

Duo-tone colours in a range of rainbow hues, these Primrose 'Husky Mixed' bring so much joy for minimal effort and very little cost. Ready to plant, these robust garden-ready flowers are hardy perennials that just need watering into their new home in whatever delightful pots or planters you've picked out for them.

These will arrive "green" so that you can get them established in your garden well in time to enjoy the beautiful blooms. Reviewers comment that these are relatively small, but very well packaged, and in a healthy and verdant condition on arrival.

Primroses aren't fussy plants - they can enjoy the sun, be positioned in partial shade, and can even withstand snow. Just take care not to overwater in winter, as saturated soil can cause root rot.