I 'solved' the problem of the 2 big planters not fitting by getting 2 smaller planters to go with 1 big one.I now have a large planter 'left over' but I think I have a home for it elsewhere in the garden. Filled the planters today with compost and shall leave over the winter to settle and then top up before planting.Have covered with netting so the cats don't think I have provided them with luxury toilet facilities! Still thinking about the wall and am moving to the idea of some old scaffold boards used as shelves,a bottom one for a couple of seed trays and a couple to 'display' things like old terracotta pots,driftwood etc or anything that I pick up along the way,don't want it to be to contrived.
“Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
It's coming looking good Madpenquin. Why not plant some little bulbs in there to cheer you up in the Spring, you could then easily hook them out when you want to plant it up?
It's coming looking good Madpenguin. Why not plant some little bulbs in there to cheer you up in the Spring, you could then easily hook them out when you want to plant it up?
I may just do that Lizzie27 If I plant up with ferns could even leave the bulbs in to come up before the fern fronds get too big.
“Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
I have now planted ferns in the new planters,I already had them in pots so no more expense! I have had a rethink about using it as a seating area (round table and 2 chairs). In the past the area always had pots on the ground and a couple of hanging baskets on the wall so trying to sit at the table meant ducking the baskets and stepping over pots. So I will keep it a simple area (just have to find a home for those pots!) to look out at the rest of the garden.
“Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
Glad to see you managed to sort the planter problem, and they look... Ferntastic. Hope you don't mind me saying, the ones you chose go well with the design on the planters too, you have a good eye, I never seem to get things like that right.
I wish I had a nice blank brick wall like that, I've been wanting to try out one of those vertical planting systems and make a living wall. You've even got a handy downpipe to tap into there for irrigation.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
There is an old book I have by Sellars and Yeatman 1936 very funny of its day, . The bit of the garden that you can never do anything with. It is called the unpleasaunce.
If you could get a copy it is very amusing. We all have our unpleasaunce..
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Filled the planters today with compost and shall leave over the winter to settle and then top up before planting.Have covered with netting so the cats don't think I have provided them with luxury toilet facilities!
Still thinking about the wall and am moving to the idea of some old scaffold boards used as shelves,a bottom one for a couple of seed trays and a couple to 'display' things like old terracotta pots,driftwood etc or anything that I pick up along the way,don't want it to be to contrived.
If I plant up with ferns could even leave the bulbs in to come up before the fern fronds get too big.
I have had a rethink about using it as a seating area (round table and 2 chairs).
In the past the area always had pots on the ground and a couple of hanging baskets on the wall so trying to sit at the table meant ducking the baskets and stepping over pots.
So I will keep it a simple area (just have to find a home for those pots!) to look out at the rest of the garden.
Hope you don't mind me saying, the ones you chose go well with the design on the planters too, you have a good eye, I never seem to get things like that right.
Ferns are starting to grow nicely as well.
The bit of the garden that you can never do anything with. It is called the unpleasaunce.
If you could get a copy it is very amusing. We all have our unpleasaunce..
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'