these are my new set of tea cups from the christmas tree shop... picked them up last year... they were inspired by a rain chain that has a tea kettle & cups... that Randy is going to make into a fountain for me
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Stormy, I want to go back, I walked almost every morning for a week and still missed so much. I'd like to take my bicycle and spend a few days going street by street and alley by alley thru the whole district. Where else can you stop on your way to walk, at 6am. at a laundromat, disco, bar named Egor's and pick up a Cajun Bloody Mary and espresso coffee for your walk. Then stop at the Trolley Stop for grits and a black Voodoo Lager on the way back. LOL!!! Top the day off with a visit to Mothers, downtown for a "debris" po'boy and Razzoo's for after dinner drinks and some of the best cover bands I've heard in a long time, best of all the green (historic St. Charles St.) trolley knows the way home!
Of course I say the same for Savanha, there are hidden gardens everywhere, as well as Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. LOL Ric
LOL, Ric, I took DSO to Savannah 15 years ago and he's claimed it as home!! I have to keep talking him into OTHER cities, but I never have any trouble getting him to NO. Those are my 2 favorite spots in the South for all of your reasons!!! I can smell the Beignets and taste the Chickory. Just love that Street Car named Desire. Oh Stella!!!
Allison, I just love those teacups and I particularly like the way you have arranged them. They are defintely Allison in Wonderland!! Your compotes look neat too. Do you put anything in them?
Stormy
I've been to Pennsylvania, they say, "Washington slept here".
I've been to New England, they say, " Washington slept in this bed".
I've been to the South, they say, " Washington never bothered us, and that was there before Mary Todd was a gleam in Lincolns eye, do you want grits with that." Gotta' love it, and I've had "tar heels" since I retired. If I ever get all the plants outa' the driveway and all of the projects outa' Holly's mind and barn, I might jes' go a fishin' and eat some grits. :-) LOL Ric
thank you Stormy....compotes??
The two white stands on the shelf above.
oooohhh... those are my bird baths
:)
Great idea for bird baths!!!. It's down to the basement I go, in search of bird baths!!! This thread gives you lots of good ideas!!!
thank you.. the one on the right has a heater for winter.... the left one gets stored when it gets cold.. but the larger birds like that one
I forgot all about my fatdog. Isn't he cute?
I have a fat cat too but his nose got broken.
I've had this huge pot for years, just sitting in the living room gathering dust. I lugged it outside yesterday thanks to all the pot inspiration here. Now I just have to figure out what to do with it. It doesn't have a drain hole, it's a real pot. It's very heavy and big, not quite 2 feet tall maybe.
Any ideas? I sort of kicked around the idea of a fountain but I don't know if I want to try and drill a hole in it. I don't know.
Great pot!
Aren't there systems where you put a pump down in the bottom and make a false bottom of some kind, essentiallly just recirculate the water from bottom to top? Hmm, I wonder what to hide the elec cord though. Ric might have a suggestion -Such as their blue egg fountain
I'd probably stop at something simple like a plastic pot that just fits inside the top rim
You can either make a hole and run the tube through that or have it draping over the side, which means you have to figure a way to cover it up. I'm thinking about it. I could just get a ceramic bit and try to drill a hole but I sure will be upset if I break the pot.
It's too tall to use as a planter, really. I don't know what I want to do with it, just thought it would be pretty outside. I need to make sure I have it where it won't get knocked over by certain Puppies Who Won't Be Named too.
too bad about the fat cat... fat dog is cute though
Hart, I'm sure you can make a fountain out of that gorgeous pot without drilling it. Larry is working on a recycled water fountain for me now, with a solar or battery powered pump. He's still in the "figuring it out" stage!! LOL
That would also look fabulous with a canna in it! Poor Kitty looks like a leper.
I know, I just can't bring myself to throw fatcat away. I had the broken pieces and then dropped them in the creeping jenny and have been looking for it ever since. I actually found one the other day so maybe I'll find the second one and can fix his broken nose.
Hart, Your pot would make a awesome summer fountain, if you use a masonry bit, with water, you could surely bore a hole in it, Set on a pedestal at water level in a pond with a taro or iris in river stone would be dynamic, it will also help burn the nitrates from the pond as well.. Ric
hart--
love the coloration of that pot!
Only idea I have is to put a large, color coordinated, gazing ball (tiled bowling ball???) on top of it and call it a garden sculpture....:o)
Gita
That would be pretty cool, Gita.
Ric, our ponds are both pretty deep. I wouldn't put it in the lower pond. It's too hard to get to and way too deep. I don't have room for it in the upper pond either with all my plants up there, especially the lotus. And we already have a pretty large waterfall for aeration. I was thinking more of using it in a flower bed than in the ponds. The green in the pot would look really nice with the creeping jenny in my flower bed next to the kitchen.
It wouldn't make the pot break if I drill into the bottom? It's pretty thick and heavy but I'd be so upset if I broke it.
Hart, I have to say that I like Gita's idea with the gazing ball best. It would certainly be handsome and more importantly, wouldn't ruin your pot.
TjMaxx & Marshall's have been getting lots of the 10" gazing balls lately for $12.99. I saw a nice one last week at the BigLots for $14.99
Hart, Jamie and Ric both have had good luck drilling pots. Jamie just did several stoneware pots for bird houses and feeders. "But" there is always the chance that it will break. RCN took her pot to someone and had them drill it for her. If you really want a water feature from the pot you can chance it. But if you just want a beautiful pot to display you sure have a gorgeous one there. If you do sit it outside where water may collect in it don't forget the mosquito dunks.
You could set it in a corner or with some tall plants behind it and run a water tube up the back and in to it. Maybe set it up like our blue ball but instead of running the water tube inside do it up the back of the jar wouldn't be that noticeable or maybe make the water tubes very noticeable with copper tubing, maybe bring the tubing up higher than the top of the pot and do a little decorative swirl before it pours the water into the pot. Josh did something like that for a friend that had a large rock in their yard. He ran a copper tube up the back of the rock and the water pours out over the top of the rock and into a channel at the bottom that feeds it back into the well.
I have drilled a few ceramic pots--but not the type you have, hart. Mostly the ceramic flower pots that i wanted more drainage holes into...kind of porous ones....
From what i know-----put tape all around the hole you will be drilling. This will keep the immediate area from splintering as you drill. Use a masonry bit and DO NOT press it hard.....let the bit do it's thing as you gently push it downwards. Patience is the key here.....
If it gets too hot--pour a bit of water around the bit.
Hope whatever you decide works for you!
Gita
I don't think I want to chance breaking the pot. Maybe if it was a cheaper pot but not this one. I like your idea with the copper tubing, Holly. That could work really well. Or look for the gazing balls - thanks for the tip on where to find them, Stormy.
Hart, If I had that pot I don't think Ric would be drilling holes in it either. LOL
Hart, I'm with Holly on that one.
Hart, I love that pot.
This sight has what you might need for converting to a fountain without drilling holes.
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=20262
It's pretty pricey, but the container is so beautiful that you might consider it.
I have a small fountain in a ceramic birds nest ornament. The only trouble is that it does not charge with the sun,...it only runs when the sun is shining on it!!
Roses, Very pretty little fountain. I had one of those floating solar powered Lotus Blossum fountains. It ran faithfully every sunny day between noon & 4. It also didn't have a filter and was always getting clogged. Love your dragon too.
Roses, where did you get all of those great boulders?
Thanks so much for the link, Roses. I love Drs. Foster and Smith although I found cheaper prices when I got my new filter and pump at A-Z Ponds. That solar pump is cool but I couldn't afford that.
The problem isn't the electrical wiring, it's the tube that would be needed to pump the water back up into the pot. I'll figure something out.
Stormy, sometimes it helps to get two water garden plastic plant pots, cut a hole for the tube, etc, and fasten them together securely top to top with zip ties with the pump inside. The holes in the pots filter out most of the gunk that would stop up your pump.
You dragon looks similar to my dragon, Roses. I like the whiskers on yours.
hart, re the pot, my last idea. Tip it over by the pond, run a water line up into it and let it spill into the pond. Hide the water line with the falling water. My 2 cents!
Suddenly have a huge urge for wide but shallow hypertufa pots full of sedums and hens and chicks. I was thinking of using a half watermelon for an inner mold.
Solar fountain pump--good thing to watch for in late summer clearance
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Stormy, the medium sized square pots at the bottom of this page are what I'm talking about. Walmart has them them in a slightly smaller size for very cheap and you can find the skinny zip ties in their auto department.
http://www.pondplants1.com/plant_baskets.htm
Sally, must be contagious. I've had that same urge!
Great idea for Hart's pot if she wants it use it by the pond.
Hart, thanks, that's a good idea for my new one. Don't see how to use it on the floating one.
LOL that was actually my first idea, Sally. I had sort of forgotten. The water falling would hide the tube. I'd just have to find a spot where I could get next to the pond. It wouldn't be very visible on this side and of course I have that straight up slope on the other side.
Thanks, Hart. Whose catalogue was that?
No, that wouldn't work on a floating pump. Just one that's submerged.
The only other option would be to get a separate filter with pump that's strong enough to filter all that gunk. I have this one
http://www.azponds.com/filters.htm with a submerged pump that actually has its own cage. The UV filter helps a lot too, as does the waterfall, and I give the ponds a dose of this stuff every few weeks in the summer. Great stuff.
http://www.watergarden.org/Pond-Supplies/Algae-Control/Microbe-Lift-Sludge-Away
This all helps keep the algae down too.
Pond Plants apparently. I just did a search for water garden plant pots. Most any place that sells pond supplies has them. I'm sure Drs. Foster and Smith, A-Z Ponds and any local pond place you have near you would carry them too. Walmart has the cheapest prices on them. They were under $1 last time I bought some.
I love the way hypertufa pots look, have been wanting to try to make them. Sally have you made them before? It doesn't seem too difficult, been looking at that forum. There is a couple at the Farmers Market in Annapolis (Riva Rd) on Saturday that makes them and sells them.
Lets go chat hypertufa on a new thread--give me a minute...
Hyeprtufa mid atlantic style
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1005993/
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