Rick, I do get some strange ideas, I've never seen it before either. The holes are below the soil surface. The plant pieces in them were just stuck in there. Started doing that about a month ago and a few pieces didn't take root but almost all of them have & are starting to grow and fill out. The more I did it, the easier it got.

Here's a couple more.



A piece of Hemigraphis I put in this one is very wilty, might not make it but the other stuff looks like it will.



I ran out of plant material to fill all of the holes, for a while, but decided to finish making the holes anyway. More will grow soon to go in them.

I love the look of plants exploding out of the pot. It reminds me of a scene in "Alien".

I guess only certain types of plants can convert their roots into shoots once they escape from the pot.

I'm really liking the look too, especially as some of these fill in more!

I didn't see your comment originally, sorry. ("I guess only certain types of plants can convert their roots into shoots once they escape from the pot.") Some of that may happen, but all of the plants coming out of the side holes at this point were stuck in there, cuttings. Most of them take, a few have not. I haven't noticed any difference in the success rate of these plants vs. doing them traditionally, on/in the surface - either rarely fail.

Wherever there's remaining space, I've poked more holes, a lot yet unused. No reason to let stems in the ground get frost bite if there's room for them "on" a pot. I should have a TON of material to decorate the yard with next year as a lot of these will be overcrowded by then. Being able to use all of the pots I have that were designed for hanging, by making new hanging arms for them with wire, there's apparently 42 hanging pots here, I counted the other day.

You can see some of the longer hanging arm things I made.



This pot is one of my favs, shown above, the Hemigraphis is doing fine now.



This looks like plants are exploding, I think. Some of the leaves on the sunny side are getting a little burned since not all of the pieces were used to that much sun before being stuck there, although this plant is fine with it, just not suddenly. Also, the angle of the sun has changed dramatically the past few weeks, coming farther into the porch (south-facing) and staying longer. They'll get through it.



Here's one showing a hole I snipped bigger with scissors:

Portulaca is right at home, stuck sideways. Love these cheery little blooms! Put these cuttings in place about 3 weeks ago.

Oh, that's cute! Love portulaca!

Those baskets are beautiful!
Mine are over as the frost has come.

Thanks! Caroline, so sorry! I'd suggest trying to save some things by bringing them in, but for the amount of time they'd have to stay inside up there, you'd probably get so sick of the daggone things. I'm sure it's something you've thought of before.

I'll put some update pics in a few weeks before frost arrives here... then it's time to figure out which ones should come in, and where to put them! I'm not that great at math, but there's about 40 hanging pots and about 15 hooks in here at the moment... rutroh!