The Planter Project

this past spring i started a planter project from a blog i read

"life on the balcony"

my approach was slightly more ambitious

go big 

or go 

home.

i gathered my pallets

sanded them all down

and painted them blue.

then i came the hard part. filling them with dirt.

this process takes a ton of patience

which if you read yesterdays post you will know that i have none.

i originally wanted white and red flowers but they had no whites so i

ended up with red and pink with "some white". 

you can see how messy this was. and i was really disappointed because i thought they looked kinda nasty.

once they were filled i started planting the rest of the annuals around them.

here is what it looked like once everything was in the ground

this is around early june with my pepper plants and "the dude-man"

here we are around the end of june the tree that sits in the middle is 

a rhododendron you can see what a mess it makes once it has flowered.

and a nice fat weed to the right!

below 

this is what it looks like in october [try to ignore the leaves i haven't cleaned that up yet]

everything just exploded and still looks great coming into the fall 

season

all in all

i really love the way these look

just remember 

if you want to do this 

it takes some 

serious 

patience!