My easy way of maintaining outdoor containers
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JC
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Posted 6:53 pm, 11/05/2024
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@mentalpause, I had to go find the bag! LOL I bought it at Lowes, it's called "WonderLand Bali Black Beach Pebbles". I used them on the surface because I thought that the black might blend in with the potting soil and look more natural. But honestly, I think I like the look of the light gray drainage rock better.
@ht, I love that 75% off clearance, but now I have a bunch of plants with NO idea where to put them!!  Today I bought a plant that's usually $16, and with the clearance discounts it was $2 and some change!
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ht
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Posted 2:24 pm, 11/03/2024
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All the clearance plants at Lowe's are 75% off today!! It was pretty exciting
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sparkling water
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Posted 2:01 pm, 11/03/2024
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Those rock can be purchased at craft stores, walmarks, lowes and Home Depot.
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knslyr
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Posted 9:45 am, 11/03/2024
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Neat idea, thanks for sharing.
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mentalpause
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Posted 9:32 am, 11/03/2024
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Hello Hello Jc Im mental and it is nice to meet you! I was curious about the rock you used. Is that a local rock? I dont know where you live but I am in the mountains and I dont think I've seen that type of rock around here. Didnt know if it was store bought or local. I loved your post!! 🍄
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sparkling water
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Posted 4:54 pm, 11/02/2024
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Clever, attractive and practical.
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JC
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Posted 4:41 pm, 11/02/2024
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I didn't think that this was a unique idea, but a lot of people are loving it and asking questions so I thought I'd share  This is an example of one of my finished containers:
Recognizing that I had a TON of nursery pots just laying around, here's what I did:
1. Find a nursery pot that's only slightly smaller than the decorative container.
2. Find a nursery pot that fits snugly into the first nursery pot. Bonus points if you have a lot of these!
3. Take random rocks and build up the height of the decorative container so that, when you sit the larger nursery pot inside of it, the lip of the nursery pot is flush or slightly lower than the lip of the decorative pot.
4. Leave the nursery pot in place, and pack drainage rock around the sides. The goal is for the rock to hold the nursery pot in the middle of the decorative pot. You can place pretty rocks on the top if you want (like I did in the pic), but drainage rock looks good by itself so it's really not necessary.
5. Fill the smaller nursery pot with the plants you like.
6. Sit the smaller nursery pot inside of the larger one.
This is how the decorative pot looks before I put the one with plants inside: And here's how the internal pot looks after it's planted, but before I sit it inside of the decorative pot: Now I have several nursery pots of that last one's size either in the greenhouse or in the hidden part of my gardens. One pot has Asiatic lilies, another has tulips, another has dahlias, another has asters, and so on. The tulips will start to come up when this Winter pot looks scraggly, so I just take this pot out and slide the tulip pot in. When the tulips die back, I'll take that pot out and slide another one in. It'll take about 2 minutes, I'll always have something pretty going on in the container, and I just hide the others away until next year! I haven't done this next part yet, but in theory you could pack the sides with container soil instead of drainage rock and then plant ivy, asparagus fern, or something similar in there. That would let the spiller hang down the sides year round, but the roots wouldn't prevent you from swapping out the pots at will.
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