Pamela Crawford and side planting containers

Oh, I doubt those clowns are what we're after, MrDonald. We need pool boys for some...serious conversation about the economy and world events. Then, after that two minutes is over we can go on to...other things.

Three decades + 28 is far better than three score + 28!

I agree, Pirl. I need a pool boy with more substance.

Endurance is another quality we need. After our conversation we need him to do the physical work required to maintain the very high standards we have in... gardening, right?.

Naughty. Naughty. Naughty. "Clowns"..."Serious conversation"..."performance art"..."three score + 28"..."more substance"..."high standards"....Mmm-Hmmm. Sure.....and my mammy came here flipping pancakes on The Mayflower. ROTFLMBAO!!! !!! !!! Weren't we asking about the book by Pamela whats-her-face a few days ago?

Who needs Pamela when we can have quality, substantial, high-endurance pool boys? My nonna came here rolling pasta and kneading bread, she missed the Mayflower by four or so centuries, but she seemed to know what she was doing. She would agree about the pool boys, too.

I'm having new patio furniture delivered and assembled Saturday. How will I be able to keep a straight face?

Well the patio boy will not know about the pool boy, so what does it matter??

Celene - we just got our new furniture but it didn't arrive with any help at all. My husband put it together in less than two hours.

Here it's the guys at the irrigation system that evoke many good "pool boy" thoughts. I think the females would enjoy a calendar featuring them.

Now if you have any kind of conflict between the pool boy and the dining set boy you just give Evelyn or me a call and we'll do our best to help you.

Pamela? Pamela who?

I will have to say, best ever was the Fire academy doing a practice burn on an old barn on my parent's property. The old barn never looked so good.

I can fully agree about firemen performing their practice sessions. I wonder if they're as active putting out the trash but that's not why I'd like one as a pet.

I can put out the trash myself. Priorities. LOL I have a law enforcement officer at home, and fwiw...yes, he puts out the trash if I ask.

You're right. We can take care of the trash and dream of our pool boys as we do it. No one else has to know what we're thinking about.

heh, heh ☺

I think I will take a break from this thread until it gets back to plants-

I have thoroughly enjoyed this side trip!...Many laughs.;-)

I've enjoyed it
The spring time brought out the young hearts in all the girls:))

Here's a quote from an Email I received recently from a DG female friend who is 74:

"There are other pleasures at that nursery. Astilbes and Kriss, the perennial expert and eye candy guy."

Plants have sex all the time - how would we get so many varieties and hybrids?? ☺

Still, this thread would be more appropriate in the propagation forum.

So what about those Pamela Crawford containers? Are they worth the money?

Since they'd still need constant attention and the help of a friend or neighbor (to water them daily) to have a 3 or 5 day getaway, I would not be interested though I think they're pretty to look at - there I go again.

Aw, pirl ~ ya jest cain't hep yousself.

See this thread

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1024184/?hl=bloommaster+pots

Karen

pennefeather I tackled the big PC basket last year and it was a huge project but stunning. I'm 70 and the hubby and I had to get out the telescoping ladder to hang it from a tree on a chain designed for porch swings, as it was way too big for the deck and although it had the gismo on bottom to attach to a post it was too big for that too. It took 30/5" plants and 3/6" plants center top. I used ruby perilla at the top, and begonias, portulaca, licorice, silver dichondra, and lime green sweet potato vine. Per the video, I filled the bottom with soil up to the first row of 7 holes (the size of a half dollar with 4 radiating slits) added plant food and took each plant out of its pot, soaked the rootball in water and squeezed into a carrot shape, poked it through the hole and fanned out the roots. Next more dirt and 14 more plants, then dirt around the sides 2" below the top and added the 8 silvery plants, spread their roots, and put 3/6" perillas in the top. That's 32 trips up and down the step ladder (hubby went to an air show). I bragged at the nursery that it got full morning sun and filtered afternoon sun (I'm in Austin, Texas and "full sun" is tooo much) and they said, "so you have it on a swivel." Well no, I didn't, but I bought one and it was early in the process so hubby got under the basket like Atlas, I was back up the ladder with the slack, I slipped on a swivel. That puppy will hang there 'till we croak, no more high ladders, only short step ones. The cocoa liner held up well and I'll only replace it this year because the holes are stretched out. It was a horrendous summer and still I only watered every other day, thoroughly, because it was sooo big, but it lasted 'till well into Nov. and it got raves. The perilla grew 2' tall and bloused over leaving only a fringe of the silvery plants and the vine covered some of the other plants. I'm gearing up for this year. In the top I'm looking for a purple sword shaped upright leaved plant I've seen, I'l repeat the silvery fringe around the top, and I won't alternate with the vine, instead I'll only use 4 around the bottom row. Wish me luck. If I can post pix, I'l try for an early shot a full shot and a close up of the perilla. It's a gorgeous plant that I kept breaking off and planting directly in other pots, I wintered some over and will put them in regular pots.

Seems you can only stick one picture in at a time...I'm so technobackward!

sylguy, that is a beautiful arrangement! Love that black plant in the center, very dramatic!

Thank you so much for posting your pictures Sylguy. It sounds like you went through a lot of work with the pot, but it looks like it was worth it.

I am waiting for my order to arrive. Hopefully, I will have it within the next two weeks. They were backordered on the columns. Meanwhile I am hardening off my seedlings that will be going in there. My drive way is covered with flats.

Please post pictres we would love to see the progress.

sorry I started my thread before I saw yours... but I posted my starting photos here

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1102111/

and here are some past threads

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/720502/
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/853798/
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1024184/

THX pennefeather, I hope you have as much fun with yours as I did. I look forward to pictures.