Help!!! Empty Planter

18 years ago

I bought this mosaic planter from the retail store in which I used to work. It came in a 50 bucks and I thought it was horribly gawdy. Somehow I grew to like it as it stayed with us for quite some time. Those in the retail business may know what I'm talking about. You look at an ugly item until you start to feel sorry for it and want to give it a good home. Well, such was the case with me. It wasn't until the planter was reduced to 25 dollars that I made up my mind to make the purchase.

Now herein lies my dilema... the thing is too ugly to decide what plant to grow in it. Also, since it is mosaic it must come inside during the winter months due to thermal expansion.

I placed a couple of variety of plants in the pictures linked below to give a since of scale. I was thinking of either creeping jenny or stone crop to pour over the sides, or something dramatic, like a yucca or cactus to be the focal point.

Any and all comments are welcome.

---Keith

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Comments (3)

kal2769
Original Author
18 years ago
Here is the 1st picture.

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zolaz
18 years ago
She isn't very pretty is she? I would put a upright bush in the center and then something like potato vine over the edges. The vine is fast growing and should hide/show the pot off to perfection. Just a glimpse of it through the potato vine. I hope this helps.
It was nice of you to give the pot a good home.
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kal2769
Original Author
17 years ago
Thanks for the advice zolas, but I've decided to trade it for a bonsai. (I'm a self proclaimed stylistic gardener!) The lady with whom I am going to trade has been pestering me because I bought it and she wanted it, and now she has something I want. Those neat sculpted junipers at Lowes which retail at 69 dollars... she got a deal on one, ($10), but it will not work in her cottage style garden. So the trade will benefit us both. My yard is so small, and I love to collect so many things that I have two or three areas that I consider oriental. The bonsai juniper will fit in nicely there, I think.
(Good ridance to the ugly ducking!)
---Keith