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Trough Planter
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bethie
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Joined: 08 Jun 2006
Posts: 1588
Location: WestTennessee (Map)
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:54 pm Post subject: Trough Planter |
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Here is one of my big hyper-tufa trough planters. This form was made with plywood and screwed together. You can shorten it or make it shallower also. This one is 18x18x53. This is the view from the back.
This is how it looks from the front. It's sitting on top of my stormhouse which is about a foot from my house. That's a big driftwood root on the right.
The door on the right(in the sun)is the stormhouse door. The window on the left is my house. The lattice on the left is a gas tank. The lattice straight ahead has a passion vine on it and planters with pentas in them that spill onto this tiny deck. On the right in the front is some juniper that spills down the small incline the stormhouse is built in.
This is to the right of the stormhouse. Hubby cut some decorative steps out of the ground and I made hypertufa risers for it. It's a very dry area that has lot of sedums in pots. That's my horseskull wearing stained glass "sunglasses."
In the way back is a big driftwood trunk with the sun shining on it.
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hummingbird3172
Showing Great Promise
Joined: 22 May 2007
Posts: 269
Location: Zone 9b Saint Cloud, FL
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Wow, that is some planter! Your garden looks like it is just brimming with life! Even the horse skull looks ready to bloom! 
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eileen
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Joined: 07 Feb 2005
Posts: 10348
Location: Scotland (Map)
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Can you come live with me Bethie and make me some planters just like yours?!! I realy love it and it looks even better all planted up. How do you manage to keep your garden so neat and tidy - you have to hack through mine with a machete - well almost. 
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glendann
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Joined: 19 May 2006
Posts: 6112
Location: Texas (Map)
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I love it all Bethie.I need a tour its just a wonderful yard.That planter is so pretty all planted up.
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toni
Mistress of Garden Junque
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Joined: 07 Jan 2006
Posts: 4511
Location: North Texas (Map)
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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The planted trough is awesome Bethie. The rest of the yard you show is pretty amazing too.
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cajunbelle
Daylily Diva
Joined: 04 Jun 2006
Posts: 2934
Location: zone 8b Louisiana (Map)
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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Simply amazing and stupendously awesome Bethie. What is the little green ground cover in the third picture, I think some of that stowed away in a plant package I got from a friend.
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zuzu's petals
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Joined: 19 Oct 2006
Posts: 2571
Location: Coastal N.Carolina ~zone 8~ (Map)
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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 Bethie! I love the trough, and everything else I see!!
I give your yard a perfect score!!
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Netty
Chaotic Gardener
Joined: 04 Nov 2006
Posts: 3934
Location: Southern Ontario zone 5
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| Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 12:38 am Post subject: |
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Awesome Bethie! Your yard is gorgeous!
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