We planted some golden oregano quite a few years ago and it just gets more and more beautiful every year.
If it’s a hotter, drier summer, then the lobelia tends to grow a little more slowly and the begonias really take over and steal the show.Either way you end up with a really well-filled out planter quite quickly that doesn’t require a lot of upkeep at all other than a little bit of watering here and there.
The creeping Jenny just seems to keep growing and growing no matter what and it’s actually pretty spectacular the way it seems to start taking everything over by the end of the season.It reached the ground and started spreading out by the time fall came around last year and this year I found that it seems to have actually naturalized itself into our paving stones.I couldn’t bring myself to rip it out this year so it’s still there.
Simple Planter Recipes: The Most Interesting.As I mentioned earlier, I love to focus on the colors of the foliage of the plants rather than the flowers most of the time.
That way, the planter looks beautiful even when the flowers aren’t in full bloom.
When they are, that’s just a bonus!I finally picked a few up the other day and decided to start my experiment in aging galvanized metal!.
How Not to Age Galvanized Metal.Well, it turns out that there are a lot of ways to do this.
Some of them really fast, some of them a little less.Almost all of the methods that I came across used scary harsh chemicals though, which you know I’m pretty freaked out by.