Dermot Ahern: How to transform your garden with creative container planting

Experienced container gardener Dermot Ahern shares practical advice.

Dermot Ahern in his garden at home in Cork. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

The smallest patio or porch can be transformed by a crop of vegetables or flowers grown in containers. Hanging baskets, large flower pots, wooden barrels, indeed any object that can contain and drain compost or soil can be used for this purpose, the only limit is your imagination. Have you ever seen plants growing out of a bog-standard pair of old boots? Wonderful.