SHARE YOUR POT PLANTINGS FOR PORCH AND PATIO

It sounds like a good idea for anybody.
Due to the early hour I forgot to mention my girlfriend built a house like that and rarely used her furnacse.
The whole south side of her two story house was glass and had a tile floor that kept hte heat going.
Good luck w/ your research, let us know how it works out.

thanks.... this is more research for our next house... we plan on moving in the future.... since this was our first house we didn't really know I was going to be into the gardening thing back then... and the slopes and hills around my house kill my ankles.. we really need something with flat property... i wear braces with steel in them now just to TRY and not hurt myself.. I do need surgery to fix my tendons & ligaments but avoiding it .... if i can

Oh, ouch Allison. I hope you can find an easy solution to take care of your ankles.

I feel you pain, I have arthritic in my left foot and will need gurgery to realign the toes, pins ,drills, the works.
Do waht you can to make life better for yourself.
Become a "flat lander" soon.

Allison I know about banks and slopes also. I ended up over a bank. I could not roll left or right. I could not go forward or backwards. If my DH did not come rescue me I would still be there from last year.

thanks... it's something i have dealt with for years... but living in this house makes it really hard... when I do hurt myself it's hard getting around being the bi-level and my driveway might as well be a sled run... not sure when we will move.. won't be anytime soon... but hopefully someday.... we are both not old enough to want to commute hours and hours in northern nj... we both have a long way to go... and since i work for the state it's just easier if we stay here as long as we can... he works 10 mins from the house too... we just happen to land in a spot that is convenient for both of us... many NJ'ins can't say that so we are great full for it

wow that sounds frightening .... i would have been in trouble... he works nights and sleeps like the dead... I laugh about it now but the last time i hurt myself in the yard i called him for 10 mins... tried to get the dogs to wake him... (lassie they are not)... no luck... I drug my butt across and down our slopped yard ... crying the whole way and praying i didn't hurt the good foot in the process... and had a heck of a time getting up ... getting in the gate of the fence.. up the deck stairs...and near enough to wake him... now i carry my cell phone when i think of it.... gotta go get ready for work... talk to you later

Allison! That's so scary!

My lord, Allison! Please take care of yourself!

I do my best.... doesn't always work

:)

man I am beat again today... went to work ... ran to home depot and picked up a new grill.... came back and worked out in the yard till I couldn't see anymore

Oh dear, DH is sick of stuff and he has had it.

This side too. He wants it fixed if it is the last thing on earth.

What's wrong with what we're looking at here, Sherrie?

OK - 1st pic almost done, look close.

2nd pic almost done.

3rd done - look again.

you installed sprinklers!

Last one going down to the veggie garden. What do you see? It is not done at all. DH - Put faucets all over the place! I DON'T HAVE TO LUG A HOSE !

Lucky you!!

Here's one of my hanging baskets filling out nicely. The peach Verbena is actually darker than the photo shows.

Gorgeous!

I goofed - he is installing sprinklers but I don't know where yet, RAH RAH shake em to the left and shake em to the right.

Celeste very very nice colors! Luv da blue.

Not to change the subjest but this is my mornings monthly photos of containers. I have 12 but chose the ones most interesting.
TUB 11
clockwise
noon wishbone plant
three Darkheart trailing coleus love rOSYDAWN
six Lobelia
nine Campanula Blue Falls

Front tub at front door
noon Canna Picasso
three Lobelia and millionbells
six million bells melon color
nine Big Red Coleus

tub1
noon Mahogony dk purple coleus, neugini
center Coleus Green Olives trailing
six wishbone plant
nine orange impatiens and anything else you can id

deck tub 2
noon - Snap Dragon
three Coleus Grace Ann
six white impatien
nine - annual Flying Colors salmon color

Deck tub 4
noon Cosmos
three white neugini
six white impatien
nine Coleus Green olives, and salmon Neugini

tub5
there's a Canna Picosso in there
Snaps
Trailing Coleus Dark Heart
Orange Impatiens


Only three more to go Hang in there

tub 8
Salmon Flying Colors
Yellow Pansey mothersday present
purple spikey annual

Planter 1
left Neuguini, right purple Wishbone

Planter2
left purple heart and pink Lobelia

Nice containers, Jo Ann!

Very nice Jo Ann, all of them!!

Thanks everyone ,my computer was cruisin this AM so I thought I'd post a bunch.

beautiful Ge... the dark heart coleus is becoming my favorite trailer

Ge1836, gee whiz your planting hands must have been busy too. Love your term " deck garden" It seems far nicer than just referring to them as mere "containers". I store left over food in "containers". It is also nice you document them on a regular schedule. I will have to start that for mine. Love tub # 1, very bold choices that will meld into a nice group. Thanks for sharing and I am stealing ideas. Patti

I am becomming attached to other trailing coleus ,such as Green Olives, and an upright called Glory.
Its hard to picture the whole plant in a setting when your in the Rosy Dawn website looking at one inch pictures.
I like the lighter colored ones as well as the combination of Psycoleus and a Mahogany giant.
I keep a monthly pictorial so I can referr to them in January and make changes in the tubs. Some of the tubs have lilies and other perennials such as the dwarf platygodon and Campanula porch?
Thanks everybody. I love June.

forgot to show psycholeus and glory
I'd love to be in the room when they give these plants titles, what a riot.

that was Psycoleus and this is Glory so beautiful with dark red purples and salmons

ooohhh like that glory too

Glory is like a bright light area amongst the foliage.
I also Like Watermelon for a really big show.