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Wackiest container you've planted in?

M33R4M33R4 Posts: 291
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Intrigued as to what you've planted in after seeing a boot full of Salvia (?) on the forum. 

Following pic is not mine but for illustration purpose only (https://thegardeningcook.com/shoe-planters-recyle-your-old-footwear-in-to-garden-planters/)

I wish I could garden all year round!
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  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I once planted a trailing orange begonia in an old-fashioned 1960's 4-5 ft high copper chimney hood which was propped up and tied to the front of a hedge. We were opening for the NGS for the first time and I needed a 'feature' at the end of a path. Unfortunately I haven't any pics although we've  still got the copper hood!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I have planted things in old cast iron drain pipe hoppers attached to the wall. I think it was trailing lobelia. But, if I was doing it now, I'd probably try ferns.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    I have used old paint cans, pierced, and sunk into the ground. That way I can move the plant relatively easily when desired, or lift it as and when I move house. It also prevents the plant from spreading its roots too far, or amongst other plants.

    Twelve litre pots of fence paint (used, emptied and cleaned), seem to do well. Not to be used for edibles though!!
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Years ago it was fashionable to turn old tyres inside out,  didn’t look too bad if had trailing lobelia covering the sides. 
    I have seen toilet pans planted but wouldn’t like it myself,  butler sinks are my limit. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Jenny_AsterJenny_Aster Posts: 945
    Planted up a Victorian wooden garden wheelbarrow which I bought for about £5 in a farm sale a few decades ago. It looked glorious until it fell apart a couple of years later, I was stupid.

    It's not whacky planting up a wheelbarrow, but when you see the price of them now going for upwards of £150, it was a whacky thing I did, though not in the same sense of whacky as this thread pertains.
    Trying to be the person my dog thinks I am! 

    Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
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