Gorgeous, Cinta. Lots of thumbs for that one.

SongofJoy said:Gorgeous, Cinta. Lots of thumbs for that one.

Thanks, Cinta.

BTW Cinta, would you believe that my succulent containers stayed outside all winter, except for those couple of snowy/icy days? I brought them into the garage then, but they're back outside on my stoop, which has an oversized roof overhang. Thanks for giving me in incentive to try that. I don't know what I would have done otherwise. The garage is full and only has 2 northeast facing windows. It's difficult to get around in there and not scratch the cars up. They are both new. DH will have a fit, if that happens.

Debbie, I thought they would survive. I did not have to bring mine inside until late Jan this year. We had a very mild winter. I have mine on a open patio, when the temps were low 20s I put a blanket over them. When we got the snow and temps in the teens I caved and brought them inside the sunroom.

I should be able to start shipping your plants late March, early April.

Thanks, Cinta.

This is the latest one I have started, the baked enamel pot was purchased at the dump restore for a dollar and already had the holes drilled on the bottom

The next two are just for fun

Only a dollar. Wow.
I adore your little frog house planter.

@webesemps Bev, did you see this?

Thanks, they used to sell those self watering pots (frog and toads homes, lol) at one of our mega supermarkets. I wish I had bought many more because the little croakers do love them

What a wonderful way to give shelter to our little frogs and toads. I just love it.

The little croakers are going full blast in the evenings now. My non gardening neighbors have complained but .........

Now that IS a bonus! I had no idea. Brilliant!

The frogs are adorable!
I just bought a similar pot at a yard sale for a dollar. I wonder if I'll get croakers, too.

I hope so, they are so cute


I just went out to water some cuttings, the water was barely coming out. I thought leaves had clogged the plastic water can....nope
another cutie,

So cute!

I so love them. I love their night time singing.

I do too, especially the green tree frogs,

We moved to Houston last March. I put a large pot with flowers on the patio, which happened to be right outside our bedroom window. I watered it pretty often. After about a week, I started hearing this strange chirp when I was in bed. I even told my husband that I wondered if the smoke alarm was going out! Then one day when I was watering the pot of flowers, this little green frog hopped out from inside the plants and started making that chirping sound. Mystery solved!

He's already back, because I just heard him the other day. Made me smile.

Aww, they are so sweet and do make you smile
I don't know how they get in but they are in all of the rain barrels
So cool to hear them

Sondra I love your story.

Hi everyone! I hope I'm in the right forum.. I would like to replicate, in miniature, the ancient Latte Stone structures from our culture to use as planters.



I had been scratching my head during this past year on how to go about making faux latte stones to use as planters. I had thought of hypertufa and cement forms, but these are too heavy, and would also require reinforcement within to hold the form.

Then a light bulb came on the other day...why not take a wide shallow plastic plant bowl and place the base on top of an overturned 3 or 5 gal. plant pot (bottom cut out) and texturize/paint the parts to look like stone.

So...any ideas on how to create the faux latte stone planters, i.e., texturizing and paint materials, would be very much appreciated.