Specialty Gardening: what kind of paint works the best on plastic?, 1 by tabasco

tabasco wrote:
Kattamos really has the touch for growing tropicals in containers and then placing them beautifully, doesn't she!? I remember reading that thread a couple of years ago (?) and I have to go through it again. Yes, excellent inspiration for me, too!

Here are a few containers that I've been babying along this spring time. I haven't been able to grow tulips because of the deer and rabbit infestations here, and also because of the wet wet wet winters that seem to wreak havoc on the few bulbs that escape the critters, so I took a new tack this season. I noticed Lowes had a pre Easter sale of pots of tulips and mixed bulbs for $6. each (eight tulips to a pot) so I bought a few. Then I re-painted some old pots we had under the deck and re-planted the bulbs into them and put them on the back deck. There they are safe from the deer and they add color to the 'all green' view from the breakfast tables.

I bought them when the bulbs were just shoots and now they have grown along nicely. Then, after easter there was a stormy period and I guess Lowes wanted to unload their bulbs so I bought several more pots of 8 bulbs for $3. each and replanted them in repainted old pots. I hope Lowes does this again next year so I can have a few tulips around next spring, too.

Here is one planting in an old wire basket that is under construction. I still need to add the sphagnum moss to cover up the plastic liner. Tulips red and yellow, and pansies, parsley and herbs.