Susan...I have your address and I'm coming to steal your Monkey! Don't shoot me, I'm just a plant lover!
Seriously, I have to have one or two of those! That is just so cool! The place I purchased my horse also sells this topiary frame and I just love yours! I can see by your garden that you are very eclectic like I am and just love whimsical and fun things! Thank you for posting that...it just makes me smile! There's going to be a big deficit in the gardening budget and it's all your fault!!! (Well I have to blame someone!) JK!
I'm not brave enough to even think about a topiary frame.....I have enough trouble keeping my petunias in line!
One of the nice things about the lightbox code is that you can test it out in the preview view, too. What you see in the preview is what you get. At least, that's worked for me so far (but I haven't tried anything too fancy)
Confidence is that feeling you have right before you do something really stupid.
Name: Susan Zone 5 Charley's Girl Too/ HeHaw, HeHaw
Woofie I use the preview too. After about 50 tries with the photos I went ahead and posted and about 15 cubiteers came to my rescue. valleylyn has really good instructions that I put into a favorites folder now I just cut and paste the code. Good to have cause I know the next time I post photos I won't remember the code. http://cubits.org/cubits/thread/view_post/292692/
Name: shirleyt thompson Pearl River, Louisiana Beginners At Art
I will tell you what I do faithfully. When I water it I am constantly picking out the tiny leaves in the very top of a stem. This forces growth further down on the stem thus making them bush out. I also do not let them bloom. I feed with Bayer to start and have used miracle grow this year. I usually use black cow manure tea. The pinching is the key. I do not have time to pinch all my coleus but the ones I pinch are much bigger than the ones I don't have time to do. Kat they get spindly if they do not get enough water and they hate the heat over 90 and the cold under 45 shirleyt
Thanks Shirley. Other years I've had some really good luck, but it's been so hot this summer. So glad to see somebody with some good looking Coleus! When things cool down a bit, I'll start replanting.
And speaking of coleus, I found this nice little blue-flowered plant that goes very nicely with Coleus. It's new to me, so I thought possibly someone else might not know about it either. It's called Browallia Blue Bells and it definitely likes the shade.
This is an individual pot of them:
This shows them combined with a few colelus:
Confidence is that feeling you have right before you do something really stupid.
thanks... Kat the bird planter has been eh... that's on the post that didn't come out clear... will take that tomorrow if I can... but it seems the bird is not easy to water... even with my drippers the million bells are dead.... SPV is outstanding... so it's hit & miss
I found a really good deal today - I happened to be going past Home Depot and remembered the gift card that was burning a hole in my wallet - so I went to the garden center.
They had just offloaded racks from Costa Farms, one of their suppliers, and they had these containers for sale. They were in a very large plastic pot but I transplanted into one of my terracotta ones.
These were NINETEEN dollars, which I thought was a steal for getting five plants which alone would have cost more. They had this cute dracaena, but also some of those 'pompom' clipped buxus plants; the container to me looked definitely more like it should cost twice of what I paid.
In addition I snagged a Aloe striata for $ 7 and those are not easy to find, generally.
WOW! That's fantastic Hetty! I love the shaggy little pom-pom trimmed plants! Hopefully that Costa Farm truck had some left when they made their way back north! I'm going to have to check it out. I like the underplanting too! Nice buy!
Kat..Last year I remember I found your website/blog and fell in love with all your containers, inside and out of your beautiful home. How can I find that site again and view it? What do you find is the secret to making pretty containers? How do you know ahead of time, what flowers will work together, how many of each plant to buy? Do you sit all of the nursery pots in the large containier and play with it for a while before planting into the large patio container? I'm assumming that you work from the middle of the container to the outside perimeter? Tall plant in middle of pot? Do you position each plant and cover each individually with soil before planting another plant? In doing it this way, I seem to make such a mess or don't get enough soil around each plant..Or do you place all of the plants where you think you want them, then add your soil around them all at once? Mine never looks nice until it's had a few weeks to a month of growth and has filled out. What' s the secret to planting containers?
Cindy from Georgia...what kind of steroid did you feed those plants in your little red wagon? That is breathtaking! What are the flowers you have in there and how many of each? Are the plants in soil in the wagon or in pots? Oh, I'm glad you didn't throw that wagon out..that is so beautiful!
Container Gardens are one of the fastest growing segments of gardening these days. Come on in and share ideas and gain some new ones.Everybody is welcome!
