Among the garden tasks I completed last weekend -- dragging all my pots and containers out of the garage, dumping the old soil into the garden and lining the pots up for a bath.

I have all kinds of pots, from plastic self-watering ones to pretty glazed pots, and including plenty of the old stand-by clay pots. And I grow everything in them, from herbs and tomatoes to succulents.

Stacey Pierson, who blogs at The Garden Plot, is talking pots today. With lots of advice from designer John Carloftis about the perfect pot for the perfect spot.