It starts innocently enough. Someone picks up a few petunias at the weekend market. Perhaps a pot of lavender for the patio. Six months later, their backyard is a bona fide botanical theatre with greens so bright they could be the lead in a Disney film. The key to this horticultural makeover? Large outdoor flower pots—those stunning giants of the garden world that have single-handedly made instant plant people into instant, dirt-under-the-fingernails green thumbs.…








