I am new to Dave's and am loving all the beautiful pics of containers. My patio is just a slab all the way to the foundation and since finding this forum I have become addicted to containers. Thanks for all the inspiration...Rose
I'm addicted to containers!
My water feature...a yard sale bargain!
Washtub and chicken feeder.
Old mailbox, milk can and crate.
Rose Welcome from one Rose to another. As antique lover, I must say I like that milk can as a way to get some height for your pots, functional and good looking!
Rose
Thank you Rose! I love old stuff too. Here is an old wheat drill with some watermelons planted underneath. Next year I will plant different flowers in it!
Looks absolutely great!
Rose
Thank you Rose!
Dellrose next door they grow everything in earth boxes it all does very well. Your looks great too! Happy gardening
Oh thank you Danasplants. I am encouraged!! What are earth boxes? It sounds like something I would like to try. Next year I want to get more height to the patio...if that makes sense. Thanks again...Rose.
dellrose: Absolutely love the wheat drill with the watermelons!
Rose
I have never seen such great imaginative gardening and I've been around for a long time! Rose, you certainly have a wonderful talent. Do show as you go? Thank You.
As for earthboxes or EBs as we call them go to www.earthbox.com
Thanks Tplant I was going to tell her if no one else did. There are pretty neat do a fine job from what I've seen
dellrose...don't even get me started about them containers.....eeeeeee; i have WAY too many.....will have to get some photos to show you....but it is WAY scarey
gardnerme...thanks so much I love the wheat drill too. DH set it out there one day and now I'm trying to convince him that I need the very old manure spreader!! I've seen them planted in this area and they are beautiful. Will have to get a pic of one the next time I go to town..
Tplant...my goodness you have made my day. Thanks so much for the compliment...makes me want to do more and more and more!! I have just tried to use a lot of the junk that you find laying around a farm and it has been very rewarding to discover this new obsession. I must try and get some of those EB's...just gotta try everything at least once. Thank you again.
sticks n stones....I would love to see your photos!
Hi and welcome to Daves Garden
Your patio looks so inviting and relaxing. Makes me want to kick back and sip something cold. I love your use of interesting planters. Good job.
Linda
HELLO, WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU ALL GO ON VACATION? SOME PEOPLE PUT PLANTS IN BATH TUBS LAYER WITH LOT OF NEWSPAPERS WET THEM DOWN COVER THE TUB WITH SOME PLASTIC. THEN LEAVE THE LIGHT ON. ANY OTHER IDEAS
Thank you jitbaw...I am sure enjoying this new hobby (aka:obsession)!
marine...I don't know what everyone else does but my neighbor waters for me.
Rose, you are so creative! I have a milkcan plant stand I keep on my front porch... your chicken feeder brought to mind a hog feeder/planter I saw here.
http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=2554389
Very cool recycling idea. I see them quite frequently rusting away on "abandoned" old farms. -B
Thank you for the nice compliment AuntB. I really do prefer my containers to be old "has beens" ! Makes me want to go to the junk pile but will wait til winter when the copperheads have safely gone to sleep.
Thanks also for that link...I love that coleus tower. I want to do some towers next year and am looking for some junk to use. I must be addicted...I'm planning next year....Rose.
I love your containers, dellrose!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you were talking about wanting height.............I wish you were this close to the border like we are .................there is a nursery closeby where everything is made in Mexico but doesn't look like it.............wonderful containers that give one height.......
just some ideas that you could do in another way.........
just a few more posts and ideas
this one has 3 layers of plants
welcome to Daves and I do love what you have shown us..............thanks
Thanks you gessiega! I showed your pics to DH hoping he will get busy and do some welding for me...now that he is retired. He brought some rebar home yesterday to make an arbor for my little pump house that I love. I will have to take pics when it is completed. I'm going to my favorite flea market in Springfield, Mo today to find more junk to play with. Tomorrow is yard saleing! So much to do...so little time! Thanks for looking.....Rose
gessie....love your stuff...what are the hot pink hanging plants??
I only wish those iron stands were mine...............bougainvilleas are hanging everywhere............they do so well down here..............have many myself................
dellrose, everything looks awesome!! Great minds think alike. I to collect old things to use outside as containers, etc. I'll post a few pictures later.
:) Donna
Thank you Donna! When I think of all the good junk that has been hauled away in the past I just cringe. Now I'm lucky if I can buy the same stuff in the antique stores without paying an arm and a leg. I'm looking forward to seeing your pics. This is so much fun!
Rose ;O)