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Here are a few of mine. I bot a strawberry pot & a friend gave me 2 more! The one on the left is planted with herbs, the middle is strawberries & the right I have hens & chicks!

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Large pot has a grass & sedum. African daisies & boxwood. The left pot has potato vine.

I do like your pots. Too early here to have good looking ones, but later in the month, I'll have some.

Petunias!

Salmon impatiens.

More salmon Impatiens! Love that color!

My hollow log planters with hosta & ferns.

Just one more. Boston ferns in pots on each side of the gazebo.

Your turn!

patty louise, I love your hollow log planters and may "steal" your idea for my shed.
How did you hollow out the logs?

Thanks MGT! Be sure to post pics of yours!

Thanks Barb. When DH was cutting firewood he found them & I grabbed them! They work so good under trees where nothing will grow.

Wish I knew how to hollow them - maybe a drill & saw? I would love to have more. Must get DH to thinking on this.

Thanks for posting your lovely pics Patty! I especially love your hollowed log planters. Gives me some inspiration altho I won't buy annuals for a couple of weeks as we can still have frost at night altho most nights don't. There are a few pics of the pots I did last year here. They are fairly early pics tho - I didn't take many pics last year as the weather was horrid.

This was one of my large pots (early pic) last year with Vancouver Centennial Geranium, tri-color grass, a regular geranium, and chartreuse sweet potato vine. All the geraniums bloom red and it was one of my fav pots. I planted the grasses in the garden but not sure yet if they survived winter. I often buy the Vancouver Centennial Geranium for containers as it's foliage is so pretty.

Very pretty. love the salmon impatients! No planters here yet

Thank you Lucky!

Your plants are so healthy. I have never had many blooms on my lamium. Yours is loaded. Love, love, love the delphiniums. Can't grow those due to the humidity. You do such a great job of combining plants. I have always had a problem with that. The Vancouver Geranium has fantastic foliage! Thanks for the link to your pics!

Thanks Silly Bird! I usually get "lipstick" but the green house didn't have them. I am now liking the salmon much better. It's so bright!

Patti Louise, Just let me know when you want to come to my house and give me some tips because I always love your gardens/photos. I'll have lunch ready!

I've got some pots but I'm waiting for them to fill in a bit.

Here is mine

Somed more

Beautiful pots!! Love the ferns and impatiens...well, just everything!!!

I'm hosting a new gardening group tomorrow, and have been busy with planning for that, but I really need to get on the ball now and get some planting done!!

Thanks for the inspiration!

Fluffy did you say lunch? I will be there! I also have some pots that haven't grown up yet! It's such fun watching them.

Jeanette wow those petunias on the porch with the lime green pillows - what a statement! Just lovely, happy & spring! I love it!

Hazel you better get on the ball!

Wonderful pictures - let's see some more!

Patty,
I love your flower pots, they're sooooo pretty!!! Every one of them is different and interesting looking, but they all match! I NEVER see any nice flower pots go on sale after the summer has ended I don't think I have ever seen any flower pots for sale at Lowe's, at the end of the season or I would have bought a couple.
Jeanette ~ I love Petunias and plant them every year, but yours are really very, very pretty!! I love your white rocking chairs and the green pillows on your porch. Nice!!!
My birthday is also at the end of this month, maybe I should treat myself to something I really like in the gardening dept. at Lowe's!!!

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Waverider, If you have an Ollies nearby, I got some really beautiful, very large pots there and they were really cheap. It's worth checking out. I had made several trips loading up my car with all of those pots.

oh my gosh.......after seeing these pretties, there's no way I'd show my puny attempts at potting. Patty, you do have the knack!!! Everything is gorgeous. Love the salmon too.

Joyluck - gorgeous combination of colors.

Jeannette - the lime green and the tunia's do pop. Very pretty.


Sigh! Maybe Patty could tour all our gardens and teach us about potting. I'll spring for lunch too!

ve

Patty's have always been beautiful and her pots are so BIG! Mine are mostly plastic & much smaller!
I'm not as young as I once was so I don't want to be dragging heavy pots into the garden house for the winter!

I would spring for lunch too! I need help with how to fill the pots with things that will look right/good! That's not a strong point for me.

OK here are some of my pots.I got this little pestal for $5.oo today

My little hand

This was a birdbath that my mother in-law had & when she pass i kept it & it broke so i coudn't fix it & i couldn't throw it away so i put a pot in it,

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Some i sit beside my bench

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These are some big one comming up my driveway

This is not a pot but i was acting like Patty i glied the girl on this & sit her in the woods

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Old broke pot

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sorry same picture i got 2 little pededal for 5.00 each so i thought i would put it at the pool beside my little man

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next

These came back from last year

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next one

These all came back from last year

These i sit beside my clock at the pool

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Will post some more later

Beautiful flowers. I can't get enough flowers. I will be away this week but next week I will be buying loads of flowers to plant. I just love flowers.

KG I think your command worked! Happy to wake up to lots more pics this morning!

Thanks Waverider! I have gotten most of mine at greenhouses. Sometimes if they are chipped I get a better price.

Thanks so much Vera! Come on now, let's see!

Karen my DH says if I buy anymore concrete he is going to leave me. (he won't) LOL!

Jeanette I love the $5.00 pedestal! What a deal! I must say that the hand is one of my favorites! How lucky you are to have flowers come back each year! Love the planters at the pool - also love the pool!

Owie we will be waiting for pictures!

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Originally posted by theoriginalfluffy:
Waverider, If you have an Ollies nearby, I got some really beautiful, very large pots there and they were really cheap. It's worth checking out. I had made several trips loading up my car with all of those pots.

Thank you very much but I don't have an "Ollie's" nearby. I never even heard of that store before. Lucky you to be able to pick up nice big pots cheaply. I really love the 'good quality' plastic pots and I have 2 in the front of my house that we bought when we moved here. But nice pretty pots like Patty Louise has can be expensive!
Where do you live ~ what state?

Some of my pots

Yellow Purslane


White Pansies


Tangerine Calibrachoa


Salvia


Schef, Phoenix roebelenii, Bolivian Sunset Gloxinia


Italian Cypress and Spearmint


Petunias




Ti plant and Globe Basil


Kalanchoe

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a few more..

Aloe in bloom

Pergola pots

Front courtyard

Croton and petunias

What lovely, lovely flowers!!!! I now have to go change my bib, from all the drooling.

OMG ZONE 9 I LOVE ALL YOUR POTS.