OK............I'm sorry for changing the subject. Tropicals.....duh. Out spot out!
Let's get back to enjoying the potted plants of others....tropicals included where it makes sense to grow them.
SHARE YOUR POT PLANTINGS FOR PORCH AND PATIO
sounds good to me
Lilac 'Tinkerbelle' is a dwarf with pink flowers....could it be that?
How deep of a container do you need for tomatoes?
(i am really clueless about containers - i wouldn't have thought you could grow cosmos in a container.)
Patio can grow in a two gallon container in full sun. They get about golf ball size and have a good flavor. I just planted one in an 18" pot. This may be a bit skimpy but it is an extra plant I just hated to throw away. Most potted plants need watering at least once a day. In hot weather with mild winds twice a day is not two much.
All others to my liking will grow and taste much better grown in the normal garden.
Gotcha. We have about 10 plants grown from seed called "Heirloom Mix." Supposed to be pretty colors. DH put most in the ground and the 3 smallest in a window box for the time being...
just had to have this one.... love the colors
well we attempted our own self watering planters... hope this works
third one
the puppy seems intrigued...
Gee, I go away for two weeks and there is soooo much to catch up with. Everyone's pots look terrific - I really like the stacking pots . . . hummmm . . . .I wonder what excuse I could use to buy those . . . .
Well these are from nearly 4 years ago, when I still lived in Buffalo. I haven't done much with pots since. The main stars of the show were nicotiana in a lime-cream, blue lobelia and red tunies. I had to rig up the hose from downstairs, outside to tend to all of it. I had never attempted container gardening on that scale, and full sun meant watering every day! It was worth it though.
This isn't porch or patio (new patio soon!) but I used this "pot" to cover a stump since the bottom was already rotted out!
Miss Fab. What a treat for your neighbors, maybe they'll get the garden bug and put on a similar display.
MissFab..................that's a great potting project. As my age inches up on me I have gone to more and more pots that cover less and less space. I really like what you have there in your lovely patio situation. There must be hours and hours of satisfaction in those pots.
Miss Fabulous, I love the pictures of your balcony.
My husband stole my containers I placed on the front steps. They were filled with cascading lavender and dark blue petunias and trailing geraniums. He put them on the balcony rail outside his den. . . . I am still grumpy.
Cascading lavender, or cascading lavender and dark blue petunias? Sounds beautiful, either way! (Never heard of cascading lavender though. . . )
Oops I meant cascading lavender petunias. . . sorry.
If there IS cascading lavender, I want some, that's all; I got all excited!
adding - there was nothing WRONG with your sentence, if I hadn't gone off all half-cocked at the idea of cascading lavender I would have been fine! As it is my BP is returning to normal and my pulse is almost steady.
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i was fascinated by the thought of cascading lavender too... i thought - o no - something else i'm going to have to get now!
Oh no! Headline... "LOVER STEALS FLOWER POTS" Judge rules hundred bucks for stacking pots fair exchange while both have same envy for third party items. Case dismissed.
Here is a very interesting cast iron flower pot find. It is guarding our front door.
Docgipe, great planter. What is planted in it?
Carrie, I don't think I have ever seen a cascading lavender, but I am growing a cascading rosemary this year. They are very nice. I will take it inside for the winter.
I have so many that are just getting going. First, all the cold and damp, then the heat. They are finally starting to fill in. I winter over many things in the passive solar GH. Some are a tad sad but surviving. I am still planting up caladiums and calla lilies. Hope it is a long summer. This group is on the west side of the house. Lots of red, oranges, and peachs to attract hummingbirds. I have never had one here. Hopeful. Patti
One spike, one pink geranium, one yellow wave petunia and two NOID drops I borrowed from another planting. The drops will hit the ground in a month. The petunia needs trimmed back so other things can grow too. They are pretty. I hate to wack on them so soon. It will be at it's best in about three weeks and then hang on for the rest of the summer. It is a little slow due to 80% shade but never fails with that combination of plants.
Doc, What are drops?
Here are some more of my container plants, but on the east side of the house. I did a lot of reds, purples, whites and yellows this year. But always have some pinks in the geraniums and petunia, but not so many this year. Many of these plants that have over wintered in the greenhouse, but I cut them all back to nothing to give them a fresh start. Never as good as new annual, but the price is right. Plus I started rooting many plants this year, which worked out very well for coleus, geraniums, and begonias. Love tucking free plants into the pots. Patti
Patti - your passive solar greenhouse - is that like a walk-in cold frame, just a little bit? Just trying to visualize. I love your red, orange and peach combination - one of my favorites! (It would have terribly uncouth a while ago, but everything retro is new again.)
Agreed........you have a nice designers touch there involving color, texture and forms. One's eye just keeps peeking into and around the total. The whole arrangement of pots and their contents is dandy eye candy.
Drops...............any plant that runs over the edge of a pot or wall then falls into the space below. Could be an ivy, a creeping sedium or a creeping juniper. Designers use them to fill space below the edge of the container or wall. By fall my drops in the cast iron planter will give some illusion to the gargoyle peeking out of the jungle or the drops will just soften the cast iron mass hopefully improving the ballance and view. I'm using a NOID form of ivy that has been around here since my time began.
bbrookrd.... when you get some time if you don't mind dmailing me about your passive solar heating... would love to know about how it works
Drops. Doc, I got it...now, a little slow. Thanks for all the compliments all.
The green house was built in 1981-2 when we built the house. The result of the last fuel crisis.
It is first a heat collector for the house. When it is sunny during the winter we open the doors when it is warmer than the house, when colder, we close them. It has an 8" walls parged with gray stucco along the south side of the house with a brick floor set in sand to collect the heat and then radiate it out when wanted. It is below grade along the south exterior wall for 20 feet of the 36 feet or so to help insulate it from the cold outside.
Second it is a greenhouse to hold and grow plants that can tolerate the wide swings of temperatures between 90 degrees down to just above freezing. We have a wood stove in the house that we ran a length of duct through the GH before going up the chimney so we could utilize some of the waste heat to heat the GH. We have no other heat for the GH. The venting for excess heat when not wanted in the house is by end door and windows, plus a run of windows at the top that are operated by an old pulley with a chain. The windows are actually insulated glass doors set in recycled cypress wood from an old Rheingold brewery in NYC. There are built in beds in the greenhouse to also act as a mass to collect heat.
The last function of the GH is as a space to eat and hang out in. But that space has shrunk with all the plants I have out there in the winter. Now it is mostly empty of plants except a few in the beds and an old Hibiscus tree, which loves the heat. Plus some jades. Here are some random shots when it is full
Forgive me for the hijacking of this thread. Patti
Can't sleep.
Beautiful planters Patti. My deck containers continue to amaze and amuse.
the hijacking is mostly my fault... sorry..... thank you for the info Patti.... your green house is beautiful.... and love the idea it heats the house
Great greenhouse Patti, I'd love to put one on the side of our garage.
Good morning Deb and 1wish
My other house had a south facing porch w/ windows on three sides. It really worked the same way and heated the livingroom on the winter days we had sun, wich wasn't many.
Fantastic Patti. I always love seeing your GH.
Hope you got a little sleep JoAnn!
I couldn't sleep either. I'm never up at 5:30. Been tossing and turning since 4am.
Yes Harper, don't usually hear from you so early, sorry you couldn't sleep.
I usually am awake between 1 and 3, it's a real condition called"Geriatric insomnia"
I was bummed about the geriatric part even though I qualify.
bad part in this house is the south side is the lower side of the house... we own a bi-level.... wouldn't be enough collection for us (I don't think)..... I am going to do some research on passive solar heating though... i think it's great.... thanks again for the info
Thanks Deb. I'll get a nap in later.