Jack Russells and other Terriers are natural mousers, natural hunters. Its in their DNA.

Cool!

I am now very aware of how many songbirds are taken by cats every year. Back then, we just didn't know any better, I guess. I have three fur babies, and they stay indoors! That way, I can love my cats and love my birds, too. Here's my babies, the handsome white and tabby striped lad is Mr. Hercules, the yellow striped girl is Chuma, and they grey and white pretty girl is Googie.

Such adorable cats!! They seem like they would be so much nicer to new people that they haven't met than my cat...

This is how tiny our cat 'Honey' is:

Her tiny little paws around my finger

KFredenburg said:Nothing eats 'em except for the squirrels. I had no idea squirrels liked succulents

The squirrels here love grazing the sedum 'Angelina' from time to time but especially this time of the year.

So to answer the original question in the thread, I suppose we are crosses between:

#2: The Romantic: Cottage Style:

&

#3: The Individualist: Personal Style.

But as @hlutzow said, I too am an opportunist. I even have plastic tubs I drilled drainage holes in and filled with soil. I can't tell you how many pieces of pottery I've drilled holes in and used for planters. We lose some to freezes...mostly chalky white ones or porous terracotta.

We have a LOT of containers now. Most don't have permanent homes as there is major upheaval in the back garden right now and it will probably go on a few months. Maybe after that I can be a little better about placement. In the meantime, we still at least have the plants and the pollinators don't care about placement.

We are running out of usable space so they also allow us to grow more stuff.

I'm just putting whatever I can in containers! I wouldn't say I had any kind of style. I like to concentrate on the plant and not the container. Guess I'm way behind the times.

Does anyone plan their containers ahead of their plant shopping. I always buy plants I like and then just stuff them in containers. This year I have had a lot of time to think about what I am going to plant and I have decided to try and have several hanging baskets and containers with green and white variegated plants and white flowers. I have a bunch of chlorophytum babies potted up. I have been rooting euphorbia for filler. I bought a bag of assorted caladium from Sam's earlier and today I decided to pot them up in mushroom containers in a little moist potting soil to get them started early so I can tell which ones are white and green. I put them on a heat mat to get them started. I put five corms per container and as soon as I see any growth I take them out and put them in pots. Now I wish I
had bought a bag of white only. I have been looking online at the Proven Winners container site for ideas about other plants I can use in the containers. The containers are in bright filtered light. Impatiens and angelonia work well for me. I will just have to go to the nurseries and see what they have. We are having some warm weather and I have moved some plants outside to get fresh air but it is still about six weeks until our frost free date. I will be moving everything again I know.

I have at times planned my containers ahead of time, but it never truly works out. So, I get the plants I want and figure out the containers later.

I don't buy plants with a particular container in mind, but rather buy plants with a particular color scheme in mind. I think about what's worked before, and what failed. I do try to think about and use the formula, a spiller, a thriller and a filler. The last two summers I've moved away from my pastel themes, usually yellow and purple combinations, and gone for the hot colors, melon, orange and red. Of course yellow fits into that, too. I already have a lot of purple and yellow in my perennial bed. I like to use non flowering plants such as dusty Miller and dracaena spikes, but seldom put coleus in combo pots. I like to keep coleus by themselves. Some plants are bullies and will take over in pots, so I avoid them all together. I did a very successful pot combo last year, it's was an upright ele ear, and orange dwarf canna with bronze foliage, and orange sun patients at the base. It worked very well. It was in a light orange patterned pot. Might try that again this year. I've found that accent plants with grey, bronze or lime green leaves to be very good to use with all color schemes. I also like to have different leaf types and patterns on the plants.

The kind that doesn't break the bank like this.



Anyway I'm suggesting my husband to build me some like the above.

It seems it would be pretty simple to build for someone with basic woodworking skills. I say go for it!

And if you start with pallet wood, half the work is already done.

I want them to look nice and attractive, this one will be the first thing people see when they walk through the garden gate.

Then make it of some really nice wood. I happen to like cedar, if it's sealed with polyurethane on the outside, it maintains its lovely reddish brown color.

My style is wild, eclectic, colorful, opportunistic, and frugal. My solution for ugly pots is to hide them with and under plants. Same with soil surface. If I can see it, I'm going to be sticking little snips of something there to use the space and cover the surface and if possible, the sides. I don't have containers to look at dirt. This started gradually by first using the soil surface in larger pots as a place to put small pots...

While I love a beautiful container, my only nice ones were gift. I love to re-purpose objects into planters, especially wire ones. Sconces, baskets, pots & pans, buckets, bottles, cups, old grill, chairs, pallet, freeform shapes made of chicken wire, bowls... if it will hold dirt and I don't mind if it gets dirty, it's a candidate. With my basic tools of landscape fabric, a roll of window screen, and spool of steel wire, I can keep the dirt in, and if possible, make it a hanging container using the wire.

Then there's mini gardening. I have 2 mini gardens in wooden boxes that my husband put together for me. There are pics of mine and other mini/fairy gardens in the mini garden forum on here. Mine do not have fairies, but one has a tiny car junkyard.
https://garden.org/forums/view...

Hiding that fugly plastic hanging pot:

5-gallon bucket:

wine rack:

using the space at the bottom of a dragon tree:

Cut & poked holes in sides of plastic pot:


wire basket:



Many of these pics are container pics:
https://garden.org/plants/mult...

I just love these! Marvelous.
Here's a recent plant combo I put together.

I put in a grey pot because I wanted the emphasis on the plants, not the pot.

I don't do much container gardening because plants just live and thrive better for me in the ground. I have killed more plants that were in pots than I care to admit to over my 40 or so years of gardening. I admit to having some 'Red Velvet' coleus in 24" pots at the foot of my front steps and one 'Sunshine' ligustrum in very large royal blue ceramic pot out back, but that's it. I do like the look of a few colorful baskets with blooming annuals like phlox or petunias I have been known to hang from convenient tree limbs here and there, but don't currently have any. I've just always preferred the 'natural' look that reveals little to no 'human intervention'.

This is one of my pots that's doing well. The althernera is actually blooming, but the flowers are small and hidden underneath the leaves. I didn't know it did that.