I enjoy collecting old glass bottles to use as flower vases. I thought it would be fun to share a couple of my latest finds.

I purchased this old bottle for 50 cents at a yard sale this summer. I love it's heavy glass feel, top lip, and rather unusual shape. It stands a little over 3 inches tall, so is perfect for a few selected flowers. Featured here with a few 'Picotee' Cosmos flowers. (Cosmos bipinnatus) The large blooms are white with a rose/pink picotee edge, and some blooms are also splashed or striped with crimson highlights. . . .

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Posted by Connie Reblogged by Old Roses to containers, cosmos on 2008-09-04, 05:50:44

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Congratulations to Nina Bang-Jensen of Chevy Chase, MD! She is the winner of the August 2008 Washington Gardener Reader Contest, for a pair of eco-friendly products from TerraCycle, Inc.

The first unique product is TerraCycle’s Urban Art Planting Pot. This lightweight, durable planting pot is made entirely from used plastic, the majority of which is salvaged from discarded electronic equipment and wrecked automobiles. . .

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The last post about Tatton Park shows the other things. There were new displays of Rural Crafts, and Rural Skills. The Floristry competition was held there, but its not something i wanted to see. I visited the rural crafts tent, and the rural skills tent. I bought a frog wall hanger with notepad and pencil. . ..

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Hi friends,

I grow a lot of stuff in pots here, and the best place I've found to put them is under our ONE oak tree in the backyard beside the patio. Some of them are plants I brought from my old garden, some are new, some were given to me by friends, some I grew from seed. I like to mix things up. In these hot summers, the plants love the shade from the tree, and have no problems with it. I have everything from peppers, to tomatoes, to some tropicals to prickly pear cactus growing there. . .

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Posted by About Bobbi C. Reblogged by Old Roses to containers on 2008-07-22, 05:54:20

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In S. Florida, the queen palm flowers and sets fruit in summer. Long pods grow from the top center of the tree, then open up to reveal the flowers. They are common yard waste and often collect water if left in the yard.

If they can hold water, I figured they could hold dirt and some herbs. Here, you can see a baby Staghorn Fern I'm nursing to health. You can also see some coleus and mint cuttings I planted.

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What benefits does container gardening offer over planting in the ground? About's Guide to Container Gardening discusses many in this article on the advantages of container gardening, not the least...

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Over the winter I was e-mailed...

This blog is about urban gardening, nature, garden photography,indoor gardening and plant propagation. Due to content scrapers I've decided to shorten my feed, sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. I hope you continue to subscribe to my feed and visit my blog to comment on the entries and view the photos of my plants. . . .

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"One shoe can change your life"
Cinderella

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Last weekend we planted my garden in between plantings I put together this herb garden/pot for my friend Steph. Of course the tags are an idea from Martha Stewart. 

Here are my two trays of seedlings right before I put some of them in pots and the rest into my garden. 

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Kudos to the Canadian supermarket known as Superstore (Loblaw's), which has announced that they will now accept plastic pots, flats and even plant tags for recycling. They'll make them into new pots and flats for use and sale the following year. This closed-loop solution could divert approximately three million garden pots from Canada's landfills this year alone. Learn more here.

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Open any book on container gardening, and you'll soon come across a stern admonition about always adding a layer of old crocks to the bottom of your containers to assist drainage. If not, the received wisdom goes, the drainage holes in the container will get blocked by soil, the soil itself will get waterlogged and your plants will die. . . .

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Posted by Sue Swift Reblogged by Old Roses to containers on 2008-05-28, 07:13:11

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Images are from garden tours last summer. Lots of fun ideas for container planting in the garden: Hypertufa planters (lots of free instructions online): Pot on a pot: Layered low profile pots: Feeding trough made into a water pond: Old wheelbarrow: Weird pot with succulents: Ye trusty old whiskey barrel: Concrete planter: Metal wall-mounted planter: Bicycle made of. . .

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Posted by Elizabeth Reblogged by Old Roses to containers on 2008-05-22, 06:58:18

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Join “Mr. Trough”, Ernie Whitford, as he guides you through creating your own fabulous rough-hewn container garden. Troughs like these can cost upwards of $100! The first day you will build your own trough, which will be left to dry for one week at the Gardens. The second day you ...

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Last year I grew some cherry tomatoes in containers in this half barrel. I didn’t plant them directly in the soil already in the barrel for two reasons. There was still a stump of a dead apricot tree there and the soil would need some major overhauling if it was to grow tomatoes [...]

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Last year I grew some cherry tomatoes in containers in this half barrel. I didn’t plant them directly in the soil already in the barrel for two reasons. There was still a stump of a dead apricot tree there and the soil would need some major overhauling if it was to grow tomatoes [...]

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I am notoriously lazy and also lack storage space, so I overwinter all my containers outdoors. We are in Southern Ontario (zone 5B), close to, but not exactly in, a snowbelt.

Every year I lose a couple of containers to breakage, but I can usually anticipate which ones those will be. My shallow bowls have lasted me three winters already. There is a chip out of one, but that's because a chair fell on it in a windstorm one summer. Sometimes I move the bowls next to the house for the winter, but I left them out this year and they were okay.

Shallow Bowl Planters, January 2006

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Posted by Karen Reblogged by Old Roses to containers on 2008-05-06, 06:41:20

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I am notoriously lazy and also lack storage space, so I overwinter all my containers outdoors. We are in Southern Ontario (zone 5B), close to, but not exactly in, a snowbelt.

Every year I lose a couple of containers to breakage, but I can usually anticipate which ones those will be. My shallow bowls have lasted me three winters already. There is a chip out of one, but that's because a chair fell on it in a windstorm one summer. Sometimes I move the bowls next to the house for the winter, but I left them out this year and they were okay.

Shallow Bowl Planters, January 2006

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Here's another common complaint that really hasn't been solved yet. Paul wrote: "I am looking for some assistance with a container issue I am having. There are several...

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My bucket farm.., originally uploaded by Leigh At Larrapin.

While this picture was about two weeks ago and a tremendous amount of greening and growing has taken place since then, we still had a late frost here at Larrapin two nights ago. You'd never know it from the sunny 70 degrees we had yesterday... It was very light, but it was the fourth or fifth time this month I had to haul out all the buckets on the premises and cover stuff in the garden. This bed is cabbage and broccoli, which probably would have been just fine, but they are so pretty I didn't want to take a chance. Some of my potatoes got zapped and are just now, slowly, regrowing. (I forgot to cover those, since my mind was on my pet plants...) The night before this picture was taken, I noticed my neighbor, a great gardener, had every bucket on his place in use, so our road could have been named Bucket Farm Drive...

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I planted a few things I've never tried before.

Above: Caladium, purslane (portulaca oleracea), vinca periwinkle (catharanthus roseus), begonia, spike dracaena (dracaena indivisa). The large twiggy vine is a recovering bougainvillea. I've also planted some peas, morning glory, and marigold seeds. . . .

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Wordless Wednesday

It looks like someone got creative when they were trying to come up with an idea for their extra petunias! . . .

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Posted by Tricia Reblogged by Old Roses to containers, flowers, petunias, whimsy on 2008-05-01, 06:00:19

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Pots and cans are the perfect space-saving containers in which to grow this favorite fruit. The potting process is quite simple and takes only minutes. If you feed and water the plants regularly, you'll have juicy strawberries for the picking all summer long.

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This week wrote an article entitled, Recycling in the Vegetable Garden, focusing on ways gardeners can use items that are on their way to the landfill in and around their gardens. Repurposing old junk and pieces of worn out wooden furniture and building supplies is part of a sustainable lifestyle. It just plain feels good to keep stuff out of the garbage and find a new way to use something.

I’ve always loved garden “junk”…from my friend Sarah’s garden junk edging, an eclectic blend of items like old iron posts, reclaimed bricks, pretty stones and hydro insulators to a cleverly placed wooden chair or ladder in a vegetable patch. . .

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Posted by Amy Reblogged by Old Roses to containers, tools on 2008-04-18, 06:02:15

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My NBC4 segment on container gardening got postponed due to technical difficulties. Ah, the thrills of live television. A nearby radio station had upped their signal last week and now any outdoor live recordings pick up their feed or have a loud hum in all the microphones. We tried it four different ways and if you watched you even saw a teaser for us "coming up." In the end though, they decided it'd be best to tape it inside and it will air tomorrow (Thurs 4/10 at 4pm -- should be close to the 4:50 block.) Pictured here is Veronica Johnson in our compromise indoor set-up. Such gorgeous weather outside today, too bad we could not use it.

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Posted by WashingtonGardener Reblogged by Old Roses to containers, shows on 2008-04-12, 06:12:35

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The upside-down tomato is now turning skyward. He's been in the upside-down pot for about two weeks now. Here's a photo from two weeks ago and here is info on how I made the upside-down planter.

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I'd like to plant some carrots in a container, since I lack garden space. What do you recommend? (answer).

From The Old Farmer's Almanac.

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Beautiful weather, School Holidays and an extended weekend (on account of Good Friday being a Holiday), things were just perfect for a weekend outing. This time I decided to spend the weekend at my Aunt’s place in Dehradun. Dehradun is a beautiful valley nestled in the Himalayan Mountains. Although it is a distance of only 72Kms from the city I live in, but the fact that it is a valley makes its weather so much better and suitable for growing plants. It is a beautiful house and very well maintained; I especially loved the tastefully grown plants.That is the walkway to the house; perfect rectangular stone pieces fitting snugly in soft grass…

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Posted by Green thumb Reblogged by Old Roses to containers on 2008-03-31, 04:47:23

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One of my clients is the Environment Sector of a local government authority here in Milan. Needless to say they're very interesting to work with, and I occasionally come home with the "freebies" they're distributing to promote the work they're doing to protect the environment in the area. . ..

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Posted by Sue Swift Reblogged by Old Roses to containers, seeds on 2008-03-31, 04:27:09

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Have you noticed that over at Gardening Gone Wild they're talking about container plantings this month? It all started on March 1st with Nan Ondra's post, "Garden Bloggers' Design Workshop - Container Plantings"
We're invited to do a post about containers (archives count) and submit it by leaving a comment on Nan's post before the end of this month. . . .

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Whenever we see pictures of hanging flower baskets you can almost always note that they are a combination of violas, pansies, petunias, heartsease or a myriad of other flowering annuals. The reason they're so popular is basically because they're easy to grow, flower abundantly and can simply be replaced once they've finished their performance.

Well, as promised in my recent post; How to make Hanging Flower Baskets I would introduce a few more alternatives for you to consider. While you won't end up with the classic suspended flowering ball, you will create some interest that is possibly a little more different to what everyone else is doing. . ..

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Posted by scrobins@westnet.com.au (Stuart) Reblogged by Old Roses to containers, flowers on 2008-03-25, 17:43:22

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Despite all this talk of spring the weather in NYC remains fairly chilly. My trip up to Mamaroneck last week was largely spent - not in the garden. Its currently over run with workmen and machines as they work on the new extensions to the house. Even the potting shed is out of bounds - it's now become command central for the construction team and warehouse for random displaced furniture. We did manage to plant some trays of seed. Fingers Crossed. . .

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Posted by The Occasional Gardener Reblogged by Old Roses to containers, spring on 2008-03-24, 18:01:42

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We had minestrone for dinner yesterday - it's one of my specialities and I make it regularly all winter. But apart from referring to vegetable soup, minestrone also has another meaning - in Italian it's used to mean a hotch-potch. Which is what this post is going to be - a minestrone hotch-potch of unconnected themes. . . .

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Posted by Sue Swift Reblogged by Old Roses to containers, spring on 2008-03-21, 06:22:47

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Creating hanging baskets that ooze flowers from their very pores may seem a little daunting, especially if you've never tried it before. Yet, come the end of spring towards the start of summer and the 'Ooohs' and 'Aahhs' you receive from besotted visitors will make the challenge seem...well, less challenging I suspect. . ..

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