With the success of the first Odd Containers thread, I thought I would start a second thread with renewed vigor.
Not only do I encourage you to continue posting photos of whimsically odd and unusual containers, I also invite you to post photos of odd and unusual things you plant in those containers.
For example...
This message was edited Aug 1, 2004 10:29 AM
Now that's the best lookin' "sprout" I've seen in a long while!! LOL!
Granddaddy is trying to make a gardener out of her already. That is the prettiest I have seen one of the tire planters look so far.... even prettier than the painted one all decked out with painted flowers.
It's not my granbaby Elena, but just as purddy. This is my neice.
Thank ya Brenda!
TC...
Cute!
Bet she was wondering whyu they were putting her in that strange little bitty play pen.
I openned this tread and just busted up, had my HD come and look, wish I could grow things that pretty!!!!!
How adorable.
Well, no thyme like the present to show this guy. Everything went to his head.
"no thyme" Good one!
Cute and a cute container also. (The guys not the cutest in the world but the container is.)
got tired of our cowboy hats falling off the hooks all the time, so decided to put them to good use.
this has Sedum Dasyphyllum 'Himalayan Skies' planted in it.
Still working on another 'container'. It's finished, but I have to get it planted up first. Finally was able to get some plants for it today.
I could show you a picture of it now, unplanted, but think I will keep you in suspence till it's 'potted' up and then I will post a picture of it.
You guys are sooo creative!! They're all cute!!
That's just to cute CoCo! I love them!
TC...
OK here goes....
Guess what the grey planter is is made of? ;}
And I'll give you a hint, its not cement.
Here's another just to make it easy...
I'm guessing styrofoam coolers.
Molly
:^)))
First of all, without guessing what it is, I love what you have planted in it! Looks like some coleus, maybe some sweet tater vine, and sedum perhaps?
And now for my guess, is it an old cooler? Probably not, that'd be to easy eh? How 'bout the frame that encloses a computer monitor? Lookin at the second photo ain't helpin me any, but I like it too. The paint job, or whatever it is you've decorated it with looks really neat.
Bravo ddiva! Funtastic job!
TC...
Actually you are both partly right - about the styrofoam part anyway. Actually they are the containers that pet stores get tropical fish in - I visit this particular pet store all the time for pet food and I just asked for a couple and they gave me three. The paint job is just spray paint - black, brown and grey.
The best part to me is the big one is large enough to grow about anything and it was free!!!
Its not sweet tater TC its Purple Queen tradescantia in the larger pot, and the "sedum" is portulaca. Not much will grow here right now - next year I'm going to load them down with stuff. Oh and the dark stuff in the front one is some kinda alternafolia, ie. Joseph's Coat.
Never again will I pay for a large pot! (Nor will I ever make hypertufa - this is just too easy!!!)
We always used painted styrofoam to look like stones in drama club back in high school in mumble mumble mumble nine. looks real authentic and stony in the stage lights. Great recycling! I love the palm tree next to the smaller one. which palm is that, delph?
What a nice and inviting looking place! Very creative!
I have no idea. See what a plant authority I am? :)
All I know is its the one we wave at church on Palm Sunday. They are everywhere around here. You mean they actually have a name?
Yeah, we call them "Palm Sunday Palms". LOL! Just kidding! I've never heard anything but that.
Some of you have asked me how do I make the little pair of shorts to stay standing. I posted the directions here at the following link. I have also stiffened a pair of little infants coverhauls, but nothing planted in it yet. I haven't used these outside, so don't know how they will hold up to weather conditions. These can also be decorated up for holidays, using artifical flowers if you wish. Just have fun with this project.
They are a very messy process and it does take time. Not an overnight thing to do.
http://davesgarden.com/t/448361/
Delphiniumdiva, that "palm sunday palm" looks like a "Sago" palm. Very popular for use in Hotel Landscaping. I was in Las Vegas in April, and they were everywhere!
Lori
tc - next time you come 'east' - i have to take you to a place near lancaster - the name of it is real, i kid you not..... Amish Sanford & Sons . my friends and i plan on going there again soon. but this time each of us will have our own trucks!
I'm game hh! Let me know when y'all plan on goin. ;~)
And how's this for a unique and easy way to grow tomatoes?
TC...
That is how handhelpers gardens! Are those her plants moved to another spot in the garden?
posted my upside-downers on the tomatoes forum:
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/450750/
Well, here's one of mine! Guess!!
and here's another!
is that an old enamel bedpan?
looks like bed pan to me
cricket
You're both right, lol, I bought it about 3 years ago to put plants in, I was originally going to hang it on the wall, but I like it the way it is, I've been looking for a long time for a regular chamber pot to put a plant in, since I remember using one in my childhood in Beljium at my Grandmother's house, I have an english bedroom one, quite beautifull in our bedroom encased in wood, looks like miniature toilet, LOL
cute idea!!
Here's another of mine, Annie
Marvelous folks, just marvelous!
Y'all forgot to tell us what plants is in them. ;~)
TC
Great containers everyone! I luv looking for neat things to use.
:) Donna
I am already doing that too, Donna. I have a few neat ideas if I just carry through with them.
hanna1, love your old washing machine. belinda
