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    Weird, Wonderful, and Whacky Planters

    1. An old wok filled with wok plants.
    ~ Dibble 
    2. An Abe Lincoln hat -- everything grows well in it.
    ~ Shirl 
    3. Ned Kelly's Helmet (for the Aussies) with pink impatiens in it (he was a shady character). 
    ~Rake
     4. One of my favourite planters was one my mother-in-law made.  An old hunting boot, painted with bright red lacquer.  She had a begonia growing in it. It was ugly but had a lot of character.
    ~Anna 
     5. My favourite planter is an old work boot (ya know, the steel-toed kind) filled with pansies and vinca vine.
    ~Ang
     6. Our (a husband and wife gardening team) favourite planter is one that we have out in our rock garden at our summer retreat. As we are by a lake and surrounded by nature we have tried to keep our gardens as natural as
    possible and so hence the planter, which is a  piece of driftwood, approx. 3 ft long, shaped like an iguana (found by our grandsons along the lake shore). The back end of the piece is quite hollow and we have filled it with planting soil and put a varigated, trailing ground cover plant, along with some purple pansies in it. It makes for a very interesting piece of garden decor, sitting very peacefully on an old tree stump in the midst of bleeding hearts, pink day lilies, sea lavender, hostas, and many more too numerous to mention.
    ~Nona
     7. The seat of an old rocking chair. Old Shoes.
    ~Mom66
     8. Toilets with geraniums growing in them are my husband's favourite, not mine. I do like the old enamel chamber pots. I have three of them with begonia, aloe vera and a house plant in them.
    ~Anna
     9. Favorite planters: 1) hiking boot 2) old tree stump 3) old  toilet bowl.
    ~Gail
    10. My grandmother had given me some white cast iron chairs. My brother took one and cut a hole in the seat to fit a pot. The best part was how he decorated it. The chair has an embossed pattern of fruit and my brother painted it with whatever he had around the house: including grape juice!
    ~Linda
    11. Corrugated cardboard egg cartons, they're cheap, recyclable, and best of all, great for germination.  "Eat the Eggs, Grow the Cartons!"
    ~Ben
    12. Does my dilapidated brown & bent garage eaves trough count?  Numerous birch trees, sunflowers and niger plants are growing there - some are nearly 3 feet tall.
    ~Auntie Canuck
    13.The blue enamel bucket which I used to gather the eggs.  Now that the chickens are gone I don't need to worry about the biddies scratching out the petunias anymore.
    ~Shirley
    14. Washing machine agitator housing unit. Drainage! Overflowing with Pentisetum Red, Melampodium, Purple Wave. Fronts washing machine store.
    ~Molly
    15. In a dead tree, still loved by birds, I'm training a golden flowered creeper to encircle the empty limbs and bring back life again.
    ~Beryl
    16. A worn out silk purse... with lamb's ear.
    ~Denise
    17. Our favourite planter is just a few houses away from us. The planter is about 5' 8" tall with a bit of grey moss around one of his openings. This planter has been around us for 15 years to visit, and grows really nice plants.
    ~Liz
    18. It was my grandfathers, the big steel bowl that was under the faucet of the wind mill that the dog used to drink out of. Memories!!!!!!!!!!!
    ~Kathleen
    19. I have a small antique Coal stove that I salvaged many, years ago from a combination coal and gas water heating unit. I placed it out on our patio and planted hosta in it. This was in 1963 and it's still popping up each year like Old Faithful.
    ~Mom Jafa
    20. I used to use three or four tires piled up on top of each other for my potatoes. I never had much room for growing potatoes and this was great.  I used it for compost and then later threw the seed potatoes in. The following year I just added another tire and a new layer of dirt. I don't know how original it is but it worked.
    ~Shauna
    21. My husband has taken on a new hobby in gardening 
    -- carnivorous Bog Plants.  Needless to say, here in Oregon, we have enough precipitation, what he needed was the appropriate container.  He had been rummaging through the shed when I looked out the window and saw him with our sons plastic snow sled (mid July). The sled is now buried in our back yard and is home to various flesh eating plants which are doing quite well (flying insects don't think so).
    ~Jewell 
    22. An old upturned umbrella frame (handle less), covered in fine chicken wire, filled with gravel, and planted with an assortment of Echieveria and Sempervivum -- a beautiful curved bowl of colour.
    ~Kiwi Gardener
    23. The most favourite of planter/containers I have in my garden is a combination of two terra cotta pots and an obelisk. My husband so generously built me my first garden obelisk this spring and it now stands over top of a very, very large terra cotta pot. About one quarter of the way up inside the obelisk is a shelf on which stands another smaller terracotta pot. In the large pot I have planted scarlet runner beans which have wound their way merrily up the legs of the obelisk and are now giving us a very pretty display of red flowers. In the smaller pot I have planted pink tickseed, which is now in full bloom with their pretty pink petals and little yellow faces. All together it all makes a very interesting display and receives many  complimentary bouquets, and soon we will have fresh beans for our dinner.
    ~Nona
    24. Labor of love by terminally ill mate - constructed from our old water-bed frame.  Thriving plants remind me of the rollicking "good ol days".
    ~Ida
     25. It's a clay pot with mold all over it.
    ~Gandy
    26. Dang it, everybody beat my old culvert all to heck.  I never had any wackier planters than that.
    ~Hawk
    27. My mom used to have a old toilet bowl for a planter.
    ~Oldfashioned
    28. My weirdest planter is my sons old peddle car fire engine. It is red and rusty. I fitted wire mesh inside it and filled it with compost. It looks wonderful with creeping rosemary. Last year I planted red petunias, blue salvias and white feverfew in it. It was very patriotic.
    ~Sally
    29. I have an old metal tubular ashtray that Smokers used to fill with people- killing butts. I filled it with dirt, drilled a few holes in the side and it has that tray in the top. From the sides, I hang strawberries and in the top, I place the flowering plant of the week. From Life taking to life giving. Great Container.
    ~Sharon
    30. The most unusual container I have in my garden is the top part of a broken hair dryer. I have an Epidendrum (reedstem type) growing in it. I have it hanging & the plant blows in the breeze.
    ~Wendy
    31. To celebrate the loss of 20 lbs., I have used an old pair of jeans, sitting on a log, with the top filled with dirt - not me!  I never intend to need them again, and my gardening is easier, now that 20 lbs. is "sitting" somewhere else.
    ~Joan, of Duarte, California
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