Specialty Gardening: Container Renovations! (smile), 1 by KatG

KatG wrote:
Esther...Are you thinking of using your existing plants to fill these pots? When you say you're using a tray, are you not filling the pots with soil? I know that if they are really big, it takes a lot of soil, but you can fill the bottom half with soda bottles/beer cans/old pots, basically anything to take up some space. If the pot's are hip height...that's big!

I've had Elephant ears in pots for about a year and a half and they're doing well. I'd say that anything that you listed would do well in a pot this size. I'd probably fill it with dirt though instead of using a planter tray.

These guys here are huge...I probably used about 8 bags of soil. I'm getting smarter though - filled the bottom about 1/3rd with old pots/cans/glass bottles...a bag of mulch, then used about 3 bags of inexpensive garden soil and 5 bags of top soil.

These are Chinese fan palms, which I think are very similar to Mexican fan Palms...they don't have a large root ball and I think it will be a while until they get to the garden soil!

Good Luck!