Crisp, modern white containers, with splashes of ever-so-hopeful greenery. Because even though we may be getting the cold shoulder from Mother Nature right now, warmer weather is coming, and I’m going to do whatever I can to hurry it along!
What's your favorite way to kick off the growing season? Have you taken the plunge yet?
1. Custom Wall Planter, Encompass
2. Boskke Sky Planter Classic – White, Velocity $75
3. Wallter Wall Planter, Design Public $72
4. Perch Campy Planters, Velocity $76
5. Long Pot, Ligne Roset
6. Project Herb Pot Trio, Hello World $49.99
7. Pigeon Toe Ceramics Airplant Wall Tile, Velocity $36
8. Wallter Post Planter, Design Public $92
9. Vessel – John Follis F-508 (Planter & Pedestal), 2modern $1695
10. Shane Powers Hanging Glass Bubble Collection, West Elm $9-$24
Images: as linked above
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I'll be installing my own vertical garden this weekend, which is insanely cheaper than the ones pictured. I'll be tracking my progress on Flickr and Pinterest.
Phlora - do you have the same name on Flickr? I'd love to see what you do.
Sure :) No photos as yet, but will begin with the installation this weekend. (Same username on Pinterest as well.)
www.flickr.com/photos/phlora
anything that is a container is a potential container garden as long as you are dealing with drainage and eventual size of the plant....so go wild!!!!
Beautiful containers, but pricey. They'd have to be a showpiece, not the backbone of a garden (at least for me). Our frost date isn't until May, so I just started some salad greens in my aerogarden. ;) As the temperature allows, I'm doing garden clean up. I do have bulbs and perennials peeking up through the dirt, which is a huge mood lifter!
Experienced bromeliad growers have a special name for the tillandsia ("air plant") terrariums that you can find just about everywhere - "glass coffins".
A tip-off as to just how well these plants do when stuffed into glass containers.
I agree with gardenroze. Also, it's a bit deceptive how most of these photos have been styled by plunking healthy, hot house grown plants into the containers right before the photo shoot. I think the salad in #5 might have come straight from the grocery counter. Though, #1 is a very snazzy idea!
I'm going to try growing tomatoes in a container out front of my house this year (that's where the sun is, so that's where they're going). I'm hoping it will also help keep our front room from getting too hot by blocking some of the sun. I'm going to use one of these: http://www.gardeners.com/Tomato-Success-Kits/VegetableGardening_TerrificTomatoes,38-659RS,default,cp.html. I'm dying to start but it's too early here.
A window box of basil will go in my other sunny window. I drape it with tulle to keep my veggie-loving cat out of it!
These are very stylish containers, but for me and for people who love gardening the most important thing about containers is the plants and how they survive in it. #5 for example looks like something that will get too hot and the plants will dry out and die. #10 too, the glass looks pretty but I don't think it's a good idea. Simple, cheap, round ceramic or plastic containers work best in my opinion. Maybe also wood, but I didn't try it yet. So if you really want to grow things, start simple, then add the extra stylish stuff, just for decoration.