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General Subjects => Alpines => Topic started by: Lesley Cox on January 17, 2013, 08:27:36 PM

Title: Odd containers for plants.....
Post by: Lesley Cox on January 17, 2013, 08:27:36 PM
and transfered into a washing up basin to be used in a display, it lasted in that bowl for 3-4 years before getting too tried to be used anymore and was given away.

Some plants have no sense of their own worth. My mother once had a very fine Weldenia candida, flourishing in a kitchen colander.
Title: Re: Odd containers for plants.....
Post by: astragalus on January 17, 2013, 09:55:17 PM
What a wonderful idea for a container, Lesley - perfect drainage!  There are lots of usable items in the kitchen, like shish-ke-bob sticks for cleaning out natural rock crevices.
Title: Re: Odd containers for plants.....
Post by: Lesley Cox on January 17, 2013, 10:39:18 PM
I really don't want to go off topic here, the pulsatillas are so beautiful and interesting, but immediately Anne, your post has me thinking along different lines, as in how about a collection of choice alpines for a display perhaps, in "different" containers, washing up bowls, colandars, old boots and of course the ubiquitous toilet bowl could be starters. Can we think of some more? Maybe Maggi should remove this to start another topic. ;D
Title: Re: Odd containers for plants.....
Post by: Maggi Young on January 17, 2013, 10:47:43 PM
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Maybe Maggi should remove this to start another topic. ;D
She did just that  ;)
Title: Re: Odd containers for plants.....
Post by: johnw on January 17, 2013, 11:09:47 PM
How about something like this but done in Gentiana verna?  I can just see Lesley pulling into the Market.......

johnw
Title: Re: Odd containers for plants.....
Post by: Brian Ellis on January 18, 2013, 09:36:18 AM
You didn't say you had a new car John  ;D ;D
Title: Re: Odd containers for plants.....
Post by: johnw on January 18, 2013, 05:35:54 PM
You didn't say you had a new car John  ;D ;D

Little choice Brian, sadly Bishop's Weed got into the manifold of the old one.

We saw Norwich on the CBC News last night  - snow.  That was a shock.

johnw
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