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Jug planter
Hello all,
in my attempt to be good and recycle, I have an old (but still looking good) plastic bowl and jug solar water feature that no longer works as the solar part of it broke, so my intention is to use it as a planter. My thoughts are, once adequate drainage holes have been added, to place some trailing lobelia in the jug part to “over flow” and some creeping phlox in the bowl part. Do you think this combination will work? I’m thinking of dark blue lobelia and cerise pink phlox. Obviously, the lobelia is an annual so will need replacing next year, the phlox is perennial. I’m just wondering if the lobelia might swamp the phlox as it grows over the jug?
in my attempt to be good and recycle, I have an old (but still looking good) plastic bowl and jug solar water feature that no longer works as the solar part of it broke, so my intention is to use it as a planter. My thoughts are, once adequate drainage holes have been added, to place some trailing lobelia in the jug part to “over flow” and some creeping phlox in the bowl part. Do you think this combination will work? I’m thinking of dark blue lobelia and cerise pink phlox. Obviously, the lobelia is an annual so will need replacing next year, the phlox is perennial. I’m just wondering if the lobelia might swamp the phlox as it grows over the jug?
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