Growing Annuals: An Unusual Flower Container
I am always on the lookout for new ways to display annual flowers. I’ll do anything from transforming old, antiques into planters to using brightly-colored containers.
On a recent visit to the Green Bay Botanical Gardens in Wisconsin, I saw this creative use of an old, decaying tree trunk…
What a great example of a sustainable flower ‘pot’.
The depression within the tree trunk held just enough potting soil for the flowers to grow in.
Seeing this made me wonder what other items that we find in nature that we can use as planters.
Any ideas?
Noelle Johnson, aka, 'AZ Plant Lady' is a author, horticulturist, and landscape consultant who helps people learn how to create, grow, and maintain beautiful desert gardens that thrive in a hot, dry climate. She does this through her consulting services, her online class Desert Gardening 101, and her monthly membership club, Through the Garden Gate. As she likes to tell desert-dwellers, "Gardening in the desert isn't hard, but it is different."
Its a delightful use of Nature's material. Much can be achieved by just cranking up the creative part of our our gray matter.