Planters or Containers?

Do you call them planters, or containers? I'm not sure. In my quest to include entries that have nothing to do with daylilies, I am going to talk about containers today.

Having a deck, a patio, and a front porch, I do a lot of container planting. This is potentially a big topic for me so I will stick with succulents for now.


Two summers ago I got some concrete troughs for the patio. I filled them with steppables (thyme, irish moss, ajuga) and succulents (hens & chicks, stonecrop). They lasted nicely through one winter and went on display for one more summer. Unfortunately, the second winter was unkind and they simply crumbled when spring came.


Now I am using shallow bowls for the same purpose. These are more portable than concrete troughs, so I will put them in a protected place for the winter. In addition to the bowls, I also have a planter that is designed to look like a carved rock. It is filled with creeping thyme and curly ivy.


I also have a blue bowl planter that adds some colour to the rocks under the maple. It contains some dragon's blood stonecrop (love the name!) and a reddish hens & chicks. Finding the best picture of it will be hard, because I have lots of them.