broken dreams?
By ricki
My thrifty tendencies lead me to gluing broken pots back together if the break is clean. This time, I decided to use a fairly large broken clay pot in another way. Not an original idea, but I quite like the way the golden baby tears seem to be spilling forth, mingling with the sedum and washing around the black mondo grass (Ophiopogon planiscapus ‘Nigrescens’). It took a couple of years to achieve the effect I was after. I began by half burying the pot towards the top of a gentle slope. One 4″ pot of baby tears went in the middle of the pot, with another above, one to the side and a third below. One 4″ pot of sedum was planted above and to the right. One mondo grass went in at the lip of the pot and has now become three. The baby tears and sedum both multiply rapidly, so that now nearly the whole slope is carpeted.
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ricki
Thanks, Bruno. I'm not sure how it happened...just hit the publish button and there they all were.
DIY Maven...glad you like the banners. Now there's a garden ornament that won't crack up with frost.
DIY Maven
Lovely effect! Too bad it wouldn't work here in the Midwest. Frost is the killer of clay pots!
P.S. Your garden banners are fab!
bruno
Hey Ricki,
Thanks for the cool post. Looks like you had some trouble with reposting, as there were about 20 duplicates of this post that I had to delete. Please keep an eye on that for next time.
If you're having trouble, or think the duplicates were due to some problem on our side, please let us know! support@curbly.com
Thanks again!
Bruno
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