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| Hi there, I have a couple of questions I hope someone can help me with. I love Cardinal flower (lobelia) Every year I plant it and it doesn't do well for me. I know it likes wet areas and we can get pretty dry.
Anyway while at a local garden center earlier this spring I saw they had some pots sitting in about 2" of water. The manager said they often grow them this way. SO a light bulb went on, how about if I purchase a 12" deep liner for my whiskey barrel and plant in it? My thinking is to drill holes around the outside edge 2" to 3" Up from the bottom of the liner, so I can keep water in it but not drown the plants. Here is my question, should I fill the tub with soil and plant in the soil? OR should I put the plants into larger (how large?) pots and just set them into the water? If I do the pots, any suggestions on how to make it look pretty? I was thinking I could put the pots into the the liner, then fill in and around them with gravel. I am also thinking about doing this with my elephant ears and some siberian iris. What do you guys think? Jenny P |
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- Posted by echinaceamaniac 7 (My Page) on Sun, May 29, 11 at 5:37
| I think it sounds like it would work. I plant mine where the water drains off the house. They are beautiful plants. They grow wild here at the edge of side ditches. |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Sun, May 29, 11 at 9:59
| the theory sounds about right.. i just question encouraging anyone to go retro with the whiskey barrel look ... ken |
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| LOL Ken, I already have the whiskey barrel, a couple of them in fact. I also live on an old farmstead way out in the country, the whiskey barrel look fits right in. This one sits on top of the concrete lid for the old unused cistern. It's ugly and time to do something about it, so I am going to do a sort of water feature there. Utilizing the old well pump, the barrels and some rocks. I MIGHT have it all put together by the end of summer! Jenny P |
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- Posted by buyorsell888 Zone 8 Portland OR (My Page) on Sun, May 29, 11 at 13:05
| I have three container ponds made of whiskey barrels or their liners. I pot bog plants in pea gravel in mesh pots and stick them right in. No drain holes. |
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| Hmm Pea gravel huh... is cardinal flower a bog plant? How about siberian Iris. I have both of these right now. Don't I need to provide some type of soil, is pea gravel enough? And for those who wonder, I know this will be an annual thing. Cardinal flower while supposed to be perennial here, never returns for me. I think my soil is to dry. |
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