~Container Challenge~

[DebºoºS]

Why Not? I took a few pictures before throwing them into the compost pile. They were really bad.
There is no way anyone would kick you out of our garden flops or not flops. You're firmly planted!

I'll post mine if you post yours
Of course I have to find a place to put it first. I don't think I can post directly on the board and there is no way I'll put it in the DIS photo gallery.

 

[Snowwark]

Deb, you could email me your pic, I'll put it up on my Worldzone site, no problem!

Snowwark@Netscape.net

 

[DebºoºS]

Thank you Kim, I'll send it tomorrow. That is if we don't lose our power!!.

Today is hurricane preparedness day LOL


Maybe we should start a new thread for this challenge. The rest of the garden might be in shock when we start posting our losers on this one.

They'll think we've gone to seed for sure!!!! SLOL

 

[Tulirose]

Deb - What happened to your Herbie planter??? That was fantastic! It is just a red x now.

Well, I finally am getting around to posting a couple of my container photos. I will start with my "best". It is dedicated to my kitty, Ollie, who was hit by a car this past winter. (I told you guys that story, right? I know I posted about it on my cruise thread but not sure if I did same here.) At any rate, Ollie got excellent treatment by our favorite vet (who happens to be our nephew-in-law!) who put him back together nicely and he is now doing fine. I used to hate Oliver, I used to call him the Intruder. He adopted us and I wasn't happy about it. But the accident made me realize how attached I have grown to him over the years. Anyway, with no further ado, may I proudly present my Ollie planter:

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Kindly note the Ollie planter's tail is dusty miller! Hahaha! Also of note, is that this kitty face was once a planter in itself which I dropped a few years ago and broke to smithereens, except for the face part, which I couldn't bear to part with. So I glued it to a metal retangular planter and, in doing so, created the Ollie planter!

 

[Tulirose]

My second planter photo was inspired by.......amid? oh geez! or was it Gina??? I have been away from this forum too long!!! WHY do I get you two confused all the time???? Which one of you did red/white/blue planters last year? Well, YOU were the one who inspired the following pot!


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And oh look! You get to see Ollie wandering around in his back yard. He looks so good. He actually got a face lift, ya know. Really!

 

[Tulirose]

These are just two regular old hanging planters. Nothing creative or inspiring about them. This was taken at the very end of July. They didn't fare very well through August, however.

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I had some dianthus in there somewhere but can't see them.

 

[Tulirose]

Want more? Well, ya getting more anyway... I'm on a roll here.

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This is my flower box given to me by my SIL. Nothing special or imaginative planted here either. This was taken mid August. If you look close, you can see it starting to go bad.

 

[Tulirose]

Well, I guess that's it for me. I had fun posting the photos. Hope you had some fun looking at them.

Julie! Is that cannae (spelling?) and a Wandering Jew? (sorry, I don't know the "real" name for the plant)? Your coleus and potatoe vine planter is stunning. It reminds me of my trip Friday into the City. There were planters all in front of the Library and also near Herald Square, and I literally made my DH stop walking, come over to one of the planters and I pointed out the potatoe vines in them to him. That was something I learned about on THIS FORUM!!!

And Deb, how green your thumb is to just throw a few things together, go off to Disneyworld and come back to such a gorgeous planting.

Everyone have a good week.

 

[DebºoºS]

Rosemary, Your Ollie planter looks so sweet and so does your real Ollie. Dianthus tail, very clever and creative. And your petunias, no fair. They aren't even leggy! Did you stand there watering all summer!?

As for good ole Herbie. He's among the missing because well I needed the space over at the DIS photo gallery for my trip pics. I figured everybody was sick of looking at him so I deleted him. He still has a spot in my hard drive though.

Have a Wonder-ful Magic-al cruise!

 

[DebºoºS]

The following pic needs some explaining.
It all started when I got a new crock pot. The old crocky was 25 years old, a classic but a fire hazard. I couldn't just throw it away. After much debate I decided to try it as a seed starter. It kept the seeds warm and with the glass lid on it's like a little greenhouse.
There was 1 lettuce, 1 carrot, 1 dill left in it I added a sprig of impatiens and potato when the carrot died. This pic was taken when I got back from WDW. It's dumb, ugly, stupid, I don't know what came over me when I planted it up.
Kim, this is just one of my loser containers

 

[Snowwark]

Tulirose, your hanging plants and window box look a darn sight BETTER than the the majority of my containers....trust me on this..lol !! I remember your post about the window box your SIL gave you, that was sweet of her.

Thank you so much for posting your pics, Rosemary!

Deb, the crockpot plants croaked? Was it plugged in? I think that is so imaginative of you, it's great!!! I need to look at my old appliances in a whole different light now.

 

[TimNDansMom]

Tulirose, yes that is a "Tropicanna" Canna Lily and Wandering Jew in the first planter pic as well as Star of Bethleham and also a lacy coleus which you can't see in this picture. I was so surprised that these two planters did so well. My others (petunias and other annuals) were only just so-so. Your pink petunias are my favourite colours and I think your Ollie planter is so cute!

Deb, my crock pot is of the same vintage but I haven't retired it yet, though I seldom use it any more. It was a wedding gift so now you've given me a good idea what to use it for next!

 

[Snowwark]

Okay Deb, here you go, a pic of one (there are many..lol), of my loser containers.

Not a very clear picture, but I think you get the general idea...

A very skimpy moonflower vine, with some vapid verbena, and blah bidens!

 

[DebºoºS]

Kim, I wish my losers looked that good. I like the moonflower trellis idea. Very creative. Did it flower for you at least? Never tried a moonflower vine. Verbena is tricky for me. I like the look of it in baskets but never really get it to flourish.

It's a winner not a loser!! For a total of 4

2 for it's creative blend of plants
2 for it's original form or structure.

 

[Snowwark]

Gosh Deb, I wish you had been one of my teachers when I was young, you seem like you'd be an easy marker!!

Actually the verbena and bidens looked great about 6 weeks ago, but the Moonflower, which I had grown before with much better success, only produced 3 blooms, and that was just a couple of weeks ago.

I'll have to think carefully about what to try on the obelisk for next year.