I spotted these planters outside a supermarket the other day in Kerry:
A wheelbarrow with a flat tyre. The Ancient Chinese invented this physics defying gravity one wheel contraption. It looks very nice full of bedding plants.
Note to author of this blog. Must source new secondhand wheelbarrow. Yours is on it's last legs or wheel even. Far too much carrying fym, concrete blocks and concrete and compost and top soil!
Don't plants brighten up the dullest of containers?
I love the flower displays. So many odd bits and pieces can be used as planters. The flowers and containers both look better with a variety of colours flowing out and around
ReplyDeleteTotally agree Linda. The plants brighten up the planters.
ReplyDeleteYes I use lots of different things, my hostas do well in a brass coal bucket. I also love old clay chimney toppers, they make great pots with good height.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what happened to my hostas Marlene. I think the slugs and snails must have devoured them. Chimney pots make great planters. I never see clay plant pots any more. I have hundreds of plastic ones but I prefer real clay ones.
ReplyDeleteI purchased loads a play pots years ago, cleared out a greenhouse, I was overjoyed, I only use plastic in the very big sizes, just to help with the weight.
DeleteWhen I go gardening for friends Marlene and customers I am often presented with plastic trays and plant pots. I have tried selling them at carbootsales. No takers yet. The Diary Of A Plantaholic. 😀👍
DeleteOnce you have a mass of blooms and foliage, the container could be anything!
ReplyDeleteP brought home a huge terracotta pot this week. It was broken in two and had been thrown out. He has glued it back together and tied sone galvanised wire around the rim and it now holds our bay shrub.
How resourceful of P. The terracotta pots and olive pots I have stood next to and looked at in awe in the Algarve are incredible and go for medieval kings ransoms JayCee.
ReplyDeleteRound here they use the big black floats/fenders that break loose from the mussel farms (cut in half). Said fenders also make good hanging chairs.
ReplyDeleteGood ideas TM. I would like to see pictures of the repurposed fenders.
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ReplyDeleteThanks TM.
DeleteThey look great! I think I might use my old steel watering can as a planter, because it's now got quite a leak.
ReplyDeleteI am glad you like them Jules. Your old watering can will make a great planter.
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