As I've mentioned before, finding tasteful hanging containers is not easy, I treasure the ones I have. On the left (below) is an old IKEA offering. For years it had been planted up with a mishmash of succulents, all of them struggling to survive. I finally got rid of them (okay not really, they were salvaged and will be planted out, elsewhere) and potted up the Selenicereus chrysocardium I purchased at Portland Nursery last January. Such a beautiful plant...
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Although it is suffering a bit of sunburn, I've been ever so slowly introducing it to the full power of that orb in the sky but it's a power to be reckoned with...
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In the orange ball (also from IKEA) is a poor agave, planted in this container when it was just a tiny thing. Now there's no way I could remove it without breaking the container, which of course I don't want to do.
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The favorite of the lot, my Circle Pot from Potted. It has always hung from a branch in the wall-o-privet, but since that's now gone it needed a new home. Clifford (our big leaf magnolia) was a natural, but I worried about the weight, not wanting to damage his branches. Out with the planted succulents and in with Tillandsia Usneoides and T. xerographica. No extra weight from soil and I can easily dump any water that accumulates in the pot, since I've been fearful to drill this one for drainage, lest I break it.
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Once Clifford fully leaves out it will in a happy dappled shade situation.
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The newest hanging container in my collection was purchased at Portland Nursery last January, when they had their 30% all containers sale. I'd had my eye on it for awhile. I believe it's a product of Gainey Ceramics before they shut down.
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It's bright apple green...
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Just like our front door...
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So of course it's hanging on the front porch. Planted up with Dichondra argentea 'Silver Falls' and a single black Ipomoea (Sweet Potato Vine) it should develop a nice long bit of foliage trailing downwards as summer progresses...
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All material © 2009-2014 by Loree Bohl for danger garden. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited and just plain rude.
Although it is suffering a bit of sunburn, I've been ever so slowly introducing it to the full power of that orb in the sky but it's a power to be reckoned with...
In the orange ball (also from IKEA) is a poor agave, planted in this container when it was just a tiny thing. Now there's no way I could remove it without breaking the container, which of course I don't want to do.
The favorite of the lot, my Circle Pot from Potted. It has always hung from a branch in the wall-o-privet, but since that's now gone it needed a new home. Clifford (our big leaf magnolia) was a natural, but I worried about the weight, not wanting to damage his branches. Out with the planted succulents and in with Tillandsia Usneoides and T. xerographica. No extra weight from soil and I can easily dump any water that accumulates in the pot, since I've been fearful to drill this one for drainage, lest I break it.
Once Clifford fully leaves out it will in a happy dappled shade situation.
The newest hanging container in my collection was purchased at Portland Nursery last January, when they had their 30% all containers sale. I'd had my eye on it for awhile. I believe it's a product of Gainey Ceramics before they shut down.
It's bright apple green...
Just like our front door...
So of course it's hanging on the front porch. Planted up with Dichondra argentea 'Silver Falls' and a single black Ipomoea (Sweet Potato Vine) it should develop a nice long bit of foliage trailing downwards as summer progresses...
All material © 2009-2014 by Loree Bohl for danger garden. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited and just plain rude.