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Garden containers are available in all sizes, shapes, and colors. Over the years, I selected a few for my half-acre gardens in Central Virginia. This is one of a pair, color changed with deck stain. Many plants were tried, yet last year I decided to forgo needy plant material and go with pebbles of various sizes, shapes, and colors.
I confess…I love rock and have shoved handsome specimens into suitcases while traveling in Canada, Wyoming (that one first went into my saddlebag), New Mexico, and Massachusetts. I also enjoy garden containers, and now marry the two for a handsome result.
I am bewitched by rock, pebbles, and stones. They are everlasting, visually appealing, and oh so sensuous.
Moss finds its way around stones.
And moss finds its way between ground stones and one metal mat outside the garden shed. If I stood outside long enough, moss would grow between my toes, I digress.
An especially old container from Mexico now appears to be holding eggs.
The sister container from Mexico, decades old, survives with only one small repair. Mostly filled with pine bark mulch, topped with pebbles, I adore the ease and quiet beauty during all seasons. Notice how the granite salvage nearly vanishes into the mulched ground. While there is plenty of plant material in the surrounding herbaceous borders, containers become sculpture.
Perhaps a bit busy, this terrace garden just outside my kitchen door provides tasty herbs for pestos, remains stable, while the quiet containers add interest. The vintage wire basket from a Charleston, SC garden, was just the right size to add a bit of whimsy to the larger shapely container.
This contemporary planter was a gift from Crescent Gardens. Surprisingly lightweight, it found a home on my lower patio, where I enjoy its shape and uncluttered appearance.
Although merely a clay saucer, this container provides one Carolina Wren with endless bathing opportunities throughout these steamy August days, and this ritual brings continual visual delight to moi.
I hope that your summer delivers moments of visual delight.
Too often, these moments are small and fleeting, yet are forever memorable.
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I just wanted to stop back by and wish you all the best in this new year. I hope all is well.
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Yes Karen, I took it down.
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Well I don’t know how I missed this post but better late than never. I do like your idea of using rocks…no watering and fertilizing necessary. 🙂 BTW, didn’t you have another post up recently and if so, it seems to have disappeared.
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The pots shown in this post are not heavy at all. They are filled with pine mulch then topped with pebbles. There is an bonus to owning one’s land.
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Because of landscaping restrictions where I live, I can’t have such beautiful (and heavy) pots around, but I do love those black stones and use them (though smaller) in glass saucers, etc. to surround candles, especially in the winter. Yours look just lovely, especially the one where your little Carolina wren frequents.
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Via FB post from Paula…”You reminded me of my daughter- we took them along on a business trip this summer through Denmark, Switzerland and Israel- she collected rocks throughout the trip which made it back to Miami!”
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Thank you! Much appreciated! I imagine that you have wonderful stones down under. 😉
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Brilliant idea, Diane. I love the serene simplicity and artistry!
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