Gymgirl,
Many thanks for posting a useful tip.
Carrie ,
What I did was to plant one Diascia in the fall and leave it out in a warm place.
That's all. I can enjoy it for a while.
dale,
So happy you like it. I made the shed by myself --some fifteen years ago.
The handle was hand-carved. Isn't the texture eye-chatching?
Smoke tree
ha;nging basket made in last year.
Tomton - your creative spirit and execution leave me breathless! You are amazing.
I just got a baby smoke tree and was wondering where to put it. I didn't even think about putting it in a container! Thanks for the great idea! Tamara
TomTom,
Nice color on the handle, and the shed, and the plants and ......well done!
Oh, Tomtom, that's exactly what I cannot do! Any other suggestions?
Again everyone, beautiful. I remember pots and windowboxes on an island in Maine overflowing with nasturtiums the way Tomtom's (and Dale's) overflow. It's such a lush, plentiful look for us Northerners. Yet, because of the containers, it doesn't have that overgrown weed-me-please look that sometimes Southern gardens can get.
Here is a wintersowed blue pot of red and white California poppies. I was thinking of one of Tomtom's pictures of Alonsoa in a shallow pot when I sowed it. Right now it's like grass! Too thick? Every once in a while I thin a few and put them somewhere else. By the way, Tomtom, I sowed the red Alonsoa you sent me. Do you have a picture of the sprouts?
Anyway, I think Tomtom's signature look, that we all want, is thickly sown and no weeds and she never shows them when they're "unlook-at-able". :>) My carpet of California poppies looks the closest, to me, of most of what I've done to date.
xxxx, Carrie
Oh my Goodness, Gracious Tom-Tom!
Your containers are absolutely gorgeous and breathtaking! You are such an inspiration! Thank-you so much for sharing! (I just have to have some flowering Kale!)
Tomtom, I just realized I never thanked you for providing the helpful instructional pictures of the steps required to make your beautiful boxes. Please excuse my bad manners, and accept my belated thanks!! It looks as if you have placed a plastic container inside the box? I think I would do the same.
Last weekend I tried making some hemispheres using the papercrete recipe; I need to try to join the halves together to make lightweight concrete globes for my garden. If I am successful, I'll post a picture!
Carrie, that forest of seedlings, in the glazed pot, is Cosmos? Did you know that if you leave them all grow that the plants and flowers will end up being miniature! I have seen it at nurseries when they are growing seeds for potting up, but, never got around to seperating them. I had also forgotten about that 'process', I think I will try it with some of my seeds.
Eye candy-for those of you who don't know that means 'something sweet for the eyes to feast upon' Consume away>
Very nice picture; wish my angelonia looked like that!!!!!
Dale,
Those are California poppies. Should I thin them? I wintersowed them. They're white linen and mikado (red).
xxx, Carrie
Is it okay to plant a "Dwarf japanese Mock Orange"
in a container?
A friend gave me one and i don't have
anymore room in the yard, but i have a big
terraccotta container and can place it next to my front door.
That would look nice.
I just don't want to kill the shrub.
Christine
I'm wondering the same thing about many shrubs: Azalea 'Hilda Neblett', Gaura 'i can't remember at the moment', potentilla 'sunset'. I think in TX as long as it is big enough, gets water and drainage, you should be ok.
xxx, Carrie
Carrie - We've had Hilda now for about 13 years and she's a delight. Haven't tried her in a container but she is a very slow grower.
Pirl,
Hilda is now in a pot, so are gaura and pontentilla. Hope it works.
xxxxx, Carrie
dale
What is this? http://davesgarden.com/forums/p.php?pid=3512259
Tropicall Hibiscus, forgotten which cultivar, has a name tho.
Pirl,
Thank you so much for your encouraging momment.
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zone 5 girl,
Extremly happy to hear that my container is of some use to you.
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Carrie,
Your baby califorinia poppies are look -at -able enough,believe me.LOL
I do love such a view too.
They look like they'd get thinned out sooner, though.
This is young Alonsoa.
KatG,
So happy that I'm of some help. Thanks.
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imapigeon,
Oh, it's quite all right. 'S my pleasure that I could be of some help.
Looking eagerly forward to seeing your recent work posted.
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dale,
Valuable tip! They really look that way, I agree.
Here are my recent containers.
'Garden bride`
Cosmos 'Seashell'
It is 15 inches high.
Tomtom-
I thinned them (my beautiful poppies) yesterday. They had stopped looking green and lush and had started looking yellow here and there and getting rowdy with each other, fighting for sunlight. So I carefully thinned about one-third, transplanting them to a little pot just in case they live.
Do you sow directly into the final containers? Or start in little pots and move up? At what age/size do you plant out into the containers? Because the annuals from the stores are so pot-bound and sold in multi-packs; it's hard (at least for me) to squeeze enough into a container to look as thickly planted as yours or dale's. That container of sown-in-place Calif. poppies is the only thing I can remember looking that good of mine. The climate has a lot to do with it, I think. Either that or it's me, and if it's me, I'll explode or something.
xxx, Carrie
Oh the ideas I don't glean from all of you. Simply wonderful stuff.
Obviously not talking about me! I'm one of the gleaners, not a gleanee.
x, C
Carrie,
I'd hope your C.p 's would recover soon. I think you7d get better tips from those living in the same climate. As you point it out, the climate has a lot to do with it.
The only thing I could say is that since poppies tend to dislike transplanting you might better sow directly into the container or sow more than you need there and thin some out later.
The season also has much to do with September in my climate. You could find value tips about sowing in the forum of germination . Best luck!
Tomtom
Oxalis trianglaris
Tomtom - you are so inspiring and your projects are all so wonderful. It's so grand to see your work. Such pleasure for all of us who aspire to be more like you.
pirl,
How sweet of you!
I'm always inspired by all the member's thread in Dave's,too.
Thank you.
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Do you have many clematis plants, Tomtom? I feel, when they're in bloom, they make us all look like great gardeners!
pirl,
Yes, I'm Clematis-happy,I confess.LOL
I have about 40species in my nallow garden.
They are alomost early summer bloomer.
Tomtom
Is that Chionanthus with the first clematis in your last post? I just saw it for the first time and loved it. Is the last one Texenis Duchess of Albany?
pirl,
The left one is Jackmanii`Semu' and last one is Texenis `Odoriba'.
I love both of them.
Tomtom
They are wonderful. Have you grown 'Oshomiro'?
pirl,
I've never grown Omoshiro , but it's really beautiful Clematis.
http://www.clematis-nursery.co.uk/clematis-omoshiro-.jpg
I have to put it in my want list .
Thank you
Tomtom
A friend sent it to me and I'm anxiously awaiting for it. I only hope I can do as well as you with placement.
Tomtom and pirl, why don't you join us all on the container gardening thread that pirl started ...........now on the second thread.....we would love to have you all......
I'd love to return to my own thread but, as you know, I meant for it to be containers WE created by ourselves and not the work of professional landscapers.
Oooooh, Pirl. That's a bit harsh.
I hear ya, pirl!
