Hi container lovers,
my 2007container gardening have just started .
Most of them are still not look-atable.
I'll try to keep posting one by one when they come in full bloom.
I'll be happy if you have a look at them.
Tomtom
Primura malacoides and viola
Primula hanging baskets and viola cube pot
Flowering kale in a big pot in March.
They were planted in December .
Beautiful!
Beautiful, tomtom! Did you build your rectangular feeders?
Just gorgeous! They're so nice and full and the color combinations are very pretty.
Very nice!
I've been thinking of you, Tomtom. Hoping that your absence from this forum meant you were working on new plantings. Thank you! These are just lovely and my very favorite colors!
By the way, I have lost the ability to access your web site. Do you have another Web address we can view?
Regards,
Susie
Beautiful "start"! They're lovely.
Deb
Tomtom
As ever your plantings are an inspiration!
Thank you for sharing.
Ann
I love the color schemes, and the massing of primulas. Gives me hope that planting time will soon arrive here!
Tomtom,
I am so jealous of your talent. You have such a wonderful eye for color and arrangement. I always enjoy your posting. Thank you for sharing your pictures with us.
Patti
I agree with all of the above comments!
xxxx, Carrie
breath taking!
There are no more adjectives to describe this loveliness.....
Wow! Absolutely stunning!
Hi,you all,
I do appreciate each of your comments.It's simply encouraging.
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Yes, ckk, I built the boxes myself. I place two containers in each box.
I am so fond of the decorative nails used there.
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So sorry to tell you,Aquane, that I closed the web site last year.
Thank you so much for having visited the site frequently.
today's photo. Last night 's storm has made the flowers a little messy.
I'm telling myself that there is a long tradition of decorative pottery in Japan and that is why you have so many lovely pots. Or why yours seem so much nicer than what I can afford. There's at least one thread about painting plastic pots! (Something I'll be trying soon.) Anyway, I like the blue pot with scrolls. Your "messy" flowers are so much mmore beautiful than my NOT-flowers now!
xxxx, Carrie
BEAUTIFUL as Always!!!!!!
Pauletta
Here's mine, dusty miller, varigated vinca and sweet pototo vines. What else do I need?
Susan
A filler? Or just wait until it fills in more. Great start, though. I'm just thinking about how to weatherproof which containers. I'm a long way from annuals!
xx, Carrie
Hi carrie,
Most of the pots sold in Japan are imported from South East Asian coutries now.
Actually I don't have so many kinds of pot . Because I believe that the pots should be used to highlight the plants there in. So I usually chose the pots simple in shape and color. Sometimes I use such a decorative one though.
looking forward to seeing your painting pots.
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Thank you so much ,lilyhostaky,for your kind commet.
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Hi Susan、
I couldn't agree with Carrie more.
You've wintered them well. But If the pot were mine, I 'd cut the sweet pototo vines by half and plant as fillers such annuals as Petunia, Lobelia ,Nasturtium etc.
Alpine container
Heliophila longifolia
Pelargonium australe grown from the babalu's seeds.
Hi Tomtom....Did you pot up those cute hanging pots...We were all trying to get here...Still not having any luck....
Love all your others...keep up the good work...Care to share the soils you use in your pots??TIA...
TOM TOM, Last year I fell in love with flowering kale and cabbage. I think all your plants are beautiful, but I liked the flowering kale best of all. I hope i get to see more of your garden. have a great gardening season...
Yes,TIA..., I potted up all of them .
I plant young seedlings in hangingbasket.
The earliest stage of the Primula hangingbasket was like this.
It was taken last October.
I use no special soils LOL
Hi ,LUNDY,
Flowering kales are so lookatable during winter in Japan.
We've got a variety of them.
I posted some more pics here:
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/682314/
Some are extremely big.
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TomTom: Can you describe how you made those beautiful wooden rectangular containers?
TomTom, another wonderful year in your garden, in pictures. Thank you.
Tomtom, would you put that flowering kale photo in plant files, please? Also the hanging basket one. I've never bought one.
xxx, Carrie
Wonderful!
Tomtom: I, too, love the nail heads on your beautiful wooden boxes. What kind of wood did you use? They look very lovingly finished! Oh, and your plants are spectacular, too!~
So glad you are back! Like everyone else, I LOVE your containers!!! How do you get your plants to have so many blooms? Mine never turn out like that! Tamara
happpy,imapigeon,
So sorry I couldn't post the step-by -step pics of making the box. I only hope that you'd get some ideas of it taking a look at the pics which show the stuffs to make a box.
The only thing you've got to remember,is to choose the right sizes of boards accodrding to the size of planters insides.
I use these boxes as planter covers and change the planters inside every season.
Their effects on the flowers at displaying are simply surprising,I beleive.
Just have a try, will you?
Tomtom
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Carrie,
Thank you so much for your kind suggestion. I'll try not in the distant future.
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Impigeon,
Many thanks for your comment. I'll not sure what kind of wood it is.
I just bought it at a near -by emporium and think it's nothing special.
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zone5 girl,
I'm so flattered. If there's any, it's certainly the help of Mother Nature. I only make a point of planting the young seedlings at the proper time of the year.
Tomtom
