Odd containers for plants.....

[Lesley Cox]

and transfered into a washing up basin to be used in a display, it lasted in that bowl for 3-4 years before getting too tried to be used anymore and was given away.

Some plants have no sense of their own worth. My mother once had a very fine Weldenia candida, flourishing in a kitchen colander.

[astragalus]

What a wonderful idea for a container, Lesley - perfect drainage!  There are lots of usable items in the kitchen, like shish-ke-bob sticks for cleaning out natural rock crevices.

[Lesley Cox]

I really don't want to go off topic here, the pulsatillas are so beautiful and interesting, but immediately Anne, your post has me thinking along different lines, as in how about a collection of choice alpines for a display perhaps, in "different" containers, washing up bowls, colandars, old boots and of course the ubiquitous toilet bowl could be starters. Can we think of some more? Maybe Maggi should remove this to start another topic.

[Maggi Young]

Maybe Maggi should remove this to start another topic.

She did just that 

[johnw]

How about something like this but done in Gentiana verna?  I can just see Lesley pulling into the Market.......

johnw

[Brian Ellis]

You didn't say you had a new car John 

[johnw]

You didn't say you had a new car John 

Little choice Brian, sadly Bishop's Weed got into the manifold of the old one.

We saw Norwich on the CBC News last night  - snow.  That was a shock.

johnw