Specialty Gardening: Show us your best containers!, 1 by Lala_Jane

Lala_Jane wrote:
Haha Carrie thank you but I have a trade secret. My favorite nursery marks all their annuals down to 1/2 price by the middle of June. Double bonus: I didn't pay for them anyway. I made up a bunch of containers for myself (from my own seedlings and cuttings) which were admired by a few folks so they commissioned me to make up some combo baskets for them too. I had a blast running around the nursery matching this plant with that one especially knowing that I could spend, spend, spend and someone else was footing the bill. Of course by the time I arrived home with 4 flats of flowers I had no idea what I had originally intended to put together and had to start all over again. I have to say they really got some beauts for a pittance of what the local hoity-toity nursery would get for the same containers.

Bluegrassmom the baskets were inexpensive also as I bought them at the 2nd hand store for $1.99 each. I just lined them with some gardner's cloth to help retain moisture, and voila.....much cheaper than a pot and (I think) just as pretty.

I made these 2 baskets early in the season and took their pictures before they had a chance to fill out much. I wonder what they look like now, LOL.

The first one has NG impatiens, lobelia, Christmas Candy coleus, purple heart, and ivy. The 2nd one is rather simple with a geranium, persian shield, asparagus fern and sedum.

I can post more if you're interested, but I don't want to run over top BGM's thread.