Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Garden Objects #4, 1 by stormyla

stormyla wrote:
This combination fountain, herb and ornamental annual display caught my eye right away. There were several kinds of Sage, Rosemary, oreganos and others. The annual ornamentals were impatiens and geraniums.

This was interesting to me as I used to have a giant ceramic dish planter that I put a floating solar powered fountain in. It sat on an old tree stump and I always planted herbs and ornamental annuals around it.There are still spring bulbs planted around the stump now.

What was nice about it was that the spray from the fountain kept the annuals and herbs moist, but yet the slope of the earth up to the stump allowed drainage for the bulbs. The rotting wood enriched the soil.

The downsides were, the house and trees cast shadows on it and the fountain only worked from about 11:30 to 4;30, but that was OK as that's when the plants needed the moisture most. The floating fountain was always getting clogged as it's near impossible to put a filter on a floating fountain. As I mostly cook after dark, I'd have to go out with the headlamp on to cut herbs. Then DSO dropped the dish bringing it out of the basement, so finito!!

I still have the stump and another small fountain to use, so it's back to the drawing board!!