Baseless Plant Pots - the Ultimate Timesaver & Design Hack 

How do you not have a series? Named Bunny + Delightful accent + Elegant landscaping + Angle grinder = HGTV Gold.

My left ear enjoyed listening to you.

I wasn't ready for this video to end. I could've watched a 2 hour video on bottomless pots. Thank you for the great content!

A safety tip don't pull your grinder backwards when grinding it is far too dangerous ; because of the way the grinding wheel rotates; the wheel will fly up at your body if it gets stuck; if grinding and going forward and it jams it will make the angle grinder go away from your body

Y’all have such gorgeous ‘stuff’ in Britain...from pots to trellises to pergolas, it’s all so lovely.

Ohhh, I’ve been making raised beds pots of varying heights and sizes for this very reason. Just today I was wishing they made bottomless pots! It never occurred to me to cut the bottom out. Thank you!

Fabulous to watch this dynamic garden loving woman who knows what she's doing and happy to share her knowledge with others. Loved the idea of baseless pots.

My daughter and I are loving this idea! We live in Florida so winters are mild climate to GB. This also makes it harder for weeds to grow into your plant since it’s raised quite a bit off the ground and brings out the individual plants. We will be using this method for sure!!!! Thank you so much.

Wow! This is the BEST tip that I've ever come across, in all my years of gardening! I'm so glad that I clicked on to this video! Thank you!

I love pretty pots but I also agree that nothing beats soil planting so this is like the best compromise

Run trickle of water with a hose in front of the grinder. I've done it for years cutting tiles, never had any dangers and no choking clouds of dust, only a trail of wet waste.

I LOVE this idea. I'm a minimalist so I appreciate a clean look. Baseless pots will give me the exact look I'm going for. Wish I'd known of this idea YEARS ago, but happy to have found out about it.

Your home and garden are spectacular. Just beautiful.

Ya, this seems great ...I usually make sure the hole in the bottom is covered by a rock. Your way will definitely changed my perspective on pots. Having drainage is important . Now, I make raised boxes with no bottom except cardboard, then twigs and branches on the bottom, and layering leaves next and then ,with different soils until I finish off with my richest soil. So far it’s working, but growing organic food is really difficult, because every creature wants to eat it first. Lots of caterpillars on my broccoli, and Brussels sprouts...had to toss them..finally gave in and set up a Monarch Butterfly station with milkweed and nectar flowers, Asters. So much joy to watch!

You have me sold out on planting with pots. I will try using your technique.

As a potter I see problems. Taking all the bottom out weakens the rest. You can still make a big hole, just not quite that big. Leave an inch or two of the floor of the pot. It is the same principle as the roll of clay at the top.

I wholeheartedly can see how fabulous this is. I do this with plastic buckets. It works very well for courgettes, tomatoes, potatoes etc. I always felt a 'complete' bucket inhibited drainage and access to additional soil nutrients. I look forward to the day I can afford to buy beautiful pots, and to be able to ' sabotage ' them by cutting out the bottoms to enable better plant growth. 😁👍🏼. One fine day. xxxxx

This is one of the best videos I’ve ever watched. I’ve come back to it over and over. Thank you for being an incredible inspiration to me in my small backyard garden in the states.

What a great idea and so simple. Thanks Bunny for brilliant inspiration as always. I’m off to get rid of the bottom of some of my pots!

Those huge pots are so beautiful! I wish they were not so expensive!!! I LOVE this idea!

Oh my word....I did not know the pots have no base! So that is how people get their tender evergreens like boxwood to survive in pots in colder climates...their roots are protected by the ground. I love all your pots! Thank you for sharing! 🙏❤️😍

Bunny you explain & share your experience, and I’m very grateful. Thank you .

This lady is so sweet and speaks with such passion perfectly that I would love to hire her for my backyard gardening ideas anytime ;) Plus, you gotta love her name just alone...Bunny :))

Fantastic advice, I have been collecting bottomless pots for years and had just decided to start taking the bottoms of pots I already have but this video expands my possibilities endlessly.

As a garden designer I could not agree more, loved seeing you with the angle grinder !

Brilliant idea! I have tons of bunnies that love to eat my plants so I have to fence them off which is really ugly, what a much better idea!

This video popped up in my notifications. It's great to see someone so elegant do something as common as using an angle grinder. lol. Someone can be beautiful smart and strong. I'll definitely be looking for more of your videos.

What a wonderful video with so many great ideas. Thank you so much!

Just subbed! I've got a large terra cotta pot with a plant that has its taproot through the drainage hole. It's stopping the water from draining. I want to save it, but don't want to cut the thick taproot. THANKS for this solution - never knew you could just cut the bottom out!

To put it simply, I m ecstatic to find your glorious garden here. I've seen it in magazines, but never realised how it was planted. I have just one Bay tree in a bottomles s ugly plastic pot, with two halves of an old favourite terracotta ,which was cracked. I have gravel and mean soil over hillside rocks; and shrubs struggling - but not for long! Thank you very much Bunny.

Great info thanks! Would love to see more of your gardens...tour?😊

This is one of those videos that while watching my eyes open and I realize my life has just changed. Thank you ~ thank you, Bunny!!! Also I've never loved those composed boxy bushes, but inside a pot they're absolutely giving me plant envy!

I have started using bottomless pots on my border - the tree and shrub roots make it impossible to dig for flowering plants. Then fill pots with annuals at a slightly higher level to garden to make border look fuller and bring colour up.

Best explanation I have heard regarding this topic.

Absolutely gorgeous. My garden needs some of that structure, but hard to look after. What a brilliant idea. .

Very clever and ingenious! That you for sharing

What a wonderful idea...why didn’t I think of that? Your a world of information and I appreciate that I found you! Thank you.

I've been thinking about doing that. It's a wonderful way to allow plants to grow connected to the ground. It's like having mini-raised beds. Plants would grow healthier with less need for care I would think.

Brilliant. I never occurred to me to cut the bottoms. Now I am going to do this. I have 4 lovely wooden boxes, going to take the slats out of the bottom and put them along the side of an arbour to grow roses over. I will bitumen the inside of these and put plastic liner inside too. Bunne knows her stuff. Nancy T

Yes a brilliant idea. I love clever and this is definitely clever. Thank you for this idea. I will be trying this in my front yard.

I have just this moment come across your channel. A few years on, but so informative . Thank you so much. South Africa.

Incredible! Just discovered your channel and I’m already hooked.

First off... awesome video. Already knew but wanted to see what she was up to. Secondly: She said POTS several times that it reminded me of that drinking game with that awesome song Roxanne. 😎😁

Clever! I have never thought of this.

Bunny: You are a genius and a goddess to my gardening muse. Thank you, Lady.

Wow! You're kind of a Badass!! (💪) Bottomless pots have always made perfect sense to me!! Thanks for sharing! This is the first time I've seen your channel! I can tell it will be a new favorite!!

What you say is true! Last year, I have figured this out on my own started taking the bottom off my pots and it has made a big difference!

So happy to have found your channel. So much great content and brilliant design. I’m from the US but love formal English gardens. I watched all your video and would love to see more 💕

this is one of the best videos I have ever seen !!!! love it. thank you. I love the confidence you have when removing the bases from these super expensive terracotta pots, impressive.

Wonderful idea! I can think of a few big pots I have that will do well "bottomless."

Brilliant. More please.

Well now I know where she got her great arms!

I have been saying that I want to do this for a long time but I am terrified of cutting a pot that I spend so much money on. You are the first person I have ever seen do this. I knew I couldn’t be the only person to have thought of it

I've seen people with plants in buckets and plastic pots for over ten years with little to no drainage and grow quite fine. As someone said these are just raised beds with a twist

TY for sharing!! I've often thought of this... but have never, ever seen it demonstrated... genius! Cheers!

Great tips. Thank you for sharing 🌸🌺🌼🌻

I first didn’t get the point. But WOW those huge cover pots make the garden look so professional and put together.

These are also called "raised beds". Just maybe more elegant (and maybe more expensive).

At last, putting a face to the voice. Thanks for these wonderful ideas, Bunny. Much love x

Bunny Genius more like it. Where've you been all my life? This is the first I've seen of this channel (subscribed of course). It never occurred to me why my potted plants were so unhappy. By odd coincidence a few nights ago I watched an episode of "Escape to the Country" where the host / agent visited Whichford Pottery in Warwickshire and was invited to try her hand at the potter's wheel. The owner explained that they make frost-proof, not frost-resistant, pots through a family recipe of the clay they blend themselves.

Very safe and competent use of the grinder. I want to compliment you. I learned of the benefit of bottomless planters by accident when my nice Nano pine was suffering for a few seasons and then perked up and I realized the whiskey barrel had rotted away and the roots found freedom. I built a new planter around it minus a bottom.

This is a brilliant idea. Thank you.

Thanks for confirming my “sense” on this.... I recently removed a dead-looking tree that had volunteered in one of my large pots.... The roots had actually grown through the drainage hole in the bottom. of the pot and into the soil below... Amazing, after an hour of struggling, a friend and I were able to get the dead-looking (and dry) tree out of the pot and I temporarily stuck it in the very large pot and prayed that it lived.... Amazingly a few weeks later, I noticed green leaves sprouting from the “stick!!” It’s alive!!

I've been doing for years. An easy way to create a raised border.

(Oh! My left ear too!!) This is a wonderful video. Thank you! It has said what I've always thought but didn't dare put into practice. What a lovely garden you have made. Knowledge, experience and practical ability. I realise how little I have done what I'd have liked to do... Without your know how. Brilliant. 👏😊🌺

This totally makes sense. I always say that the compost breaks down and then it compacts down and suffocates the plant. I have to lift the plant after a few years and put new dirt in.

I look forward to a Bunny Guinness line of baseless pots! Thank you for this. 🙏✨💕

Consider sewer tile for bottomless pots. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes and they might be free if you can source them from a construction supplier. Also many are open on both ends so no need to cut out a solid bottom. I have three I got from somewhere. They are 1 inch thick, 1.5 foot square and 4 foot tall. They are matte finish and the color is terra cotta, just like a garden pot. I would guess sewer tile is frost proof. Mine have survived many Midwest USA winters though I have never planted them.

She's awesome!!!

Reminder: Make damn sure you don't do this without first checking that the potted plant is ok to have growning outside of a pot. Because some plants dig their roots deep and will grow like weeds if they have access to a larger area. Knotweed for instance should absolutely not be grown outside of isolated pots no matter how pretty the leaves are. You basically can't get rid of them where you don't want them without *replacing all of the soil* so that there aren't any roots hiding left behind. Jerusalem artichoke (a sunflower relative) can also wind up growing outside of your pot if you do this, though it is far less of a hassle than Knotweed

Best to use a cordless grinder - well worth the investment. Makita is a very good example. Excellent advice by the way. Thank you.

WOW!! Thank you for these enjoyable, interesting and easy tips. Wish RU-vid would have a love choice, like does not cover it!!

I have grown runner beans in plastic pots with bases removed for years on the edge of my lawn with canes fastened to my washing line.Changed compost yearly and didn't do lawn much good but it soon recovered..As an elderly lady it was manageable for me and always a good crop.

We have three weeping Japanese maple trees planted in bottomless pots planted behind a row of bushes They have been there a good 10 years

Those large terracotta pots are glorious. I love large pots!

Just brilliant and the perfect solution when you can't dig a hole to plant something. Just finding someone who will cut out the bottom is the problem for me. thank you so much for this information.

Thank you for sharing your wonderful suggestion regarding the bottom of the pots...I love it!! Makes PERFECT sense!!

I can spend hours just listening to you...You have such a cute accent...

I love the idea of instant height. I planning to make a few square cement cloth pots and then line them up on my fence and plant my little boxwoods into them to have a head start on my screening out the neighbor. It will also look very nice if i decorate the pots a bit or paint them...so many possibilities. Thank you!

Lol my mom planted a couple figs in wooden barrels with the idea of moving them if she wanted to. They broke through the bottom of their barrels, so there they stayed.

This is EXACTLY what I was looking for to plant in a humid zone.

Sounds very interesting. My experience with Terra cotta planters is that after a while they start to crack and need to be replaced. What happens if I have to replace a large pot plant that has already taken root in the earth?

this is great. thank you, I have quickly begun to do this and already have amazing results especially on my allotment. Brilliant video

This is a brilliant idea that I will definitely try. However, I don’t think I could get away with never watering in my much dryer climate.

What a lovely lady, fab video and such a clever idea re taking the bottom our of the terracotta pots. Who knew/ Thank You Bunny G. :-) xx

Do you then reuse the bases that have been cut out of the terracotta pots as paving stones or other such decorative elements? I'm tight so I would definitely do so; especially since it would be a complete waste of all the environmental impact & embodied energy that went into the sourcing, manufacturing & transportation of those pots. Using the angle grinder, I can see the bases being cut up to whatever shape that's desired & used to edge paths, or in place of rocks in rockeries, or inserted into a brick or stone wall at different heights to form mini shelves for pots with say, trailing Begonias or succulents put out for the summer; the list is almost endless. It's not terribly attractive but I use the large plastic hot H20 loft tanks that people throw out when converting to a combi boiler system. The H20 header tanks are also great planters. Remove fittings, drill plenty of holes for drainage & off you go. Can be thoroughly cleaned, undercoated with plastic spray primer and then painted according to requirement. I don't bother, just plant trailing plant's to hide plastic container or include lots of other pots around them. When plants grow up, you can't see the containers anyway. I've 5 enormous tanks that were free out of people's front gardens (asked permission) & accompanying header tanks - saved approx £1,100 on containers which I couldn't have afforded normally & have stuffed them with large shrubs. Spoke to a local plumber a couple of years ago @ a carboot sale (those were the days - no COVID-19) & he had loads of these tanks which he used to grow veg & had many spare. So it might be possible to check with local plumbers to see if they've any going spare - saves them paying rubbish tip disposal fees. Using these is the ultimate reduce, reuse, recycle; especially when it comes to plastic that would never be recycled & go into landfills. Very handy for community garden schemes.

I love the idea. Thank you

Any ideas for using the circles cut from the pots?

Thank you for this!! I never would have thought of it. As one commenter mentioned, it's the same principle as a raised bed. Can't wait to try it!

Would it be helpful to add water while using the drill/saw

It was so nice to learn about a bottomless pot, never heard to it before however I try this style THANKS (USA)

I do this too. It only makes sense.

Thank You for Sharing your beautiful landscape art and your wonderful idea. 😍

I'd save those pot bottoms she cut out for orchid mounts. Some orchids love terracotta mounts.

I did this with a climbing rose….who knew it was actually a “thing”. I can’t wait to do more!

The point using a pot is so you can move it around. If it’s rooted to the ground, what’s the point?

Very clever 👋👋. I would not have about cutting the bottoms out ! Had always wondered how to grow big plants in a pot 🤔 now I know !

Awesome video, and angle-grinding like a boss !! Now I know why my rosemary plant has died, I will be taking off the bottom of my pots (well I’ll be asking my husband to do it, I’m not going near his angle grinder 🤣)

Love her shirt!

Mmm great idea but how much do those large pots cost. Not on my wages.