Specialty Gardening: Old purses, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
Seedsower: I was "lurking" around the garden and came upon this thread. Your purse planter is great! I have an old cloth purse with my name embroidered on it that my sister gave me back in the early 1970's. I found it about seven or eight years ago when we were spring cleaning and I knew I'd never use it as a purse again, so I put a plant in it. I didn't actually plant the plant inside the purse but rather used the purse as a cache pot and sat the pot down inside the purse so I could change it out every so often. It had wood dowels and cloth handles but I removed the wood dowels and hang it from the cloth handles. Friends and family have always gotten a kick out of it. Since it's cloth I don't have to worry about drainage holes because the water runs right through.

Joannabanana: I love your wheelbarrow planter, beautiful combination of flowers you have in there! I haven't yet convinced my husband that I need his old rusty wheelbarrow and that he needs a new one! I guess I'm going to have to buy him a new one so that I can have the old one for a planter, but he seems to keep repairing it and replacing the wheels when they go flat or fall apart.

I love unique & unusual planters and yard art! Our good friend remodeled one of their bathrooms years ago and was throwing out an old bathtub ... I really wanted it for a planter but couldn't convince him and my DH to bring it over here! It weighed a ton but sure would have made a great container garden, or water garden in the yard! I'm still trying to find a kids little red wagon to use for a planter and an old rusty bicycle for yard art! I want to hang a basket on the handlebars to put flowers in! I've also been trying to confiscate one of my husbands old sneakers to use as a planter ... no luck yet though! A boot is a great idea too. I collect birdhouses and saw a photo once of an old leather boot that was made into a birdhouse ... if I could find a pair, one could be the birdhouse and the other a planter.

I guess you could say I love Trash to Treasure stuff! One of my friends says she believes I'd stick a plant in anything and she's probably right. I need to browse the Marketplace and see if I can find Sissy70's creations of the plastic bag purses, that sounds like a great idea. I saw someone once make wreaths out of plastic bags and it was cute!

Here's a photo taken a couple of years ago of my purse planter: