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Now that you have counted how many different flowers you have growing in your gardens, (most of you have sooooo many! )how many more UNUSED flower pots do you have in "storage"?!!
I didn't count, but I have about 35 pots in all different sizes.....I think I'm becoming a pot hoarder....

My DH complained I had 300 at one point in time!!!
I guess I wanted to be sure I had the right type or size! Hahahaa I did a major cleaning & just have what I have out basically now! I always wanted some for the plant exchanges! Spring & Fall they ask you to pot stuff up & bring ~~or need some to pot stuff up to share with friends!
WE NEED THEM! LOL

I have a bunch, but most are the plastic kind that plants come in. I am a pot hoarder because the garden club uses them. Yep, just like muddy said, the plants have to be potted for the sale or for exchanges.


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I think I have about ten...
this is bad! that means I have more plants than I thought!

If you do not count the plastic ones that plants are bought in I might have 10. That means I have oodles of filled pots. I am a plastic pot hoarder, the ones you buy plants in at the nursery. I did manage to throw out a bout a dozen ones this year while I was transplanting. I always have the thought"I might need them some day".!!lol

well I did use up alot in the big planters..
put them in the bottom, then the soil.
no way was I filling those huge planters all the way.

I don't count pots...I just panic if I run low...have to go buy something so I have more!
I have given a neighbor gal about 30 plants so far this year. I traded a bunch of starts to a local nursery for a couple of things I wanted...about 35 starts. So that got rid of a slew of my pots.
That was when I went on my little buying binge...and resupplied myself!

We have another new neighbor building a house...so next year she will get lots of things...can't run out of pots!

I don't have many. I give them to the neighbor that has a green house. I've got maybe 10.

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I have given a neighbor gal about 30 plants so far this year. I traded a bunch of starts to a local nursery for a couple of things I wanted...about 35 starts. So that got rid of a slew of my pots.

Are 'starts' cuttings?! I never heard the term 'starts' before! How did you know that you could barter 'starts' for new plants at your local nursery? Did you just walk in one day and offer them for exchange? How smart you are. I didn't even know to do that!
I have tons of Philodendron cuttings. I gave many away, but just pruned another plant and have bottles with cuttings. Wonder if a nursery would trade my cuttings (in a small pot?) for a new plant?!

Yep I have a huge stash of the nicer plastic ones for future ventures....and donations to friends...hey they are expensive to buy and you already PAID for them! I save my old cracked terra cotta and use them upside down to give height to other terra cotter planters on patio!

DH used to try to ditch mine, I found I had to keep them stacked orderly or they hit the recycle bin!!!!

I have TONS! Wouldn't even try to count!! I do stack them neatly and hide them behind the fence on an old shelf, so they're always there when I need them. Last year I gave away a whole grocery bag full to someone who was getting ready to put her house on the market and wanted to dig up a few things before she did. (She is glad now, because the new owners have let her beautiful gardens grow up in weeds! )

I don't have any extra pots. It's a good thing too, because I'd want to fill them all. Twelve is enough is for me!

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Originally posted by ga.karen:
I don't count pots...I just panic if I run low...have to go buy something so I have more!

sounds like a great new thread: 'Reasons, aka excuses to buy plants."

anyone... feel free to start one if you think its a good idea.

Most of my decorative pots have plants in them. But the black plastic nursery pots...oh geez! I store them under the Gazebo or in the shed, I have about a hundred. I'm always using them for cuttings or transplanting. Plus I use them as liners for the decorative pots, so I can just pull one out and replace it fast.

I have 14 of them in my basement.

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