Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Potting Pleasures

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They aren't really pots, per se, more like container baskets. But it was a pleasure digging in the dirt, none the less! I told Jeff it was almost like being a kid again getting to form mud pies. A handful of soil, a flower or two, more dirt, a pinch of this plant and a stem of that one, all patted neatly down into my coir liners.

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I used pansies, violas, liriope, creeping jenny, begonias, angelina sedum, and lambs ear to create six hanging baskets for the front porch. Here they are temporarily on the back porch near my potting station (the old fish cleaning station!) just after watering. The early spring annuals probably don't have long in this heat, but they were free, so I squeezed them in for a full look while they last.

2 comments:

  1. How cool! Lookin' good! Where did you get flowers like that for free?

    At the nursery, planters like that cost around $30. That's a savings of $180!

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  2. I was proudly telling Jeff how much I had saved on these baskets, but I think I underestimated their value. Thanks for the price point!

    I should have explained that I have an older friend through Master Gardeners who likes to plant lots of annuals. She bought the pansies and violas in the fall and used them all winter. Now she was already tired of them and ready to dig them up, so I offered to take them. I combined them with other plants I had from plant swaps and cuttings (and a few $.50 clearance purchases from "death row") to make seasonal hanging baskets.

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