Hi KD.
What a cool project. How tall do you want them? Will the top piece be filled with plants?

@goldfinch4 Chris has done many different pillar type projects, maybe she can help?

Hi Lynn,

The top piece will be filled with plants. Here are photo's of containers I was toying around with...not necessarily the ones I would use; just to give an idea of what's on my mind. Again, I'd like to be able to texturize/paint the pots to look like the Latte Stones pictured in my post above.





The bowl will be filled with plants like asparagus fern or other types of low-growing flowering plants, not adeniums.

KD you could cover them with a cloth and cement. Easy, cheap, and light weight. You can use towels, burlap, or anything cotton. Soak them in a Portland cement and drape over your forms, drill holes and you have your look but will be light enough to move around depending on how large you go. Keep the forms you draped the fabric on inside of them for added strength.

Hmmm, I wonder if you could use cloth and cement to make basket liners for the wire hanging baskets & hayrack planters? The coco liner kind only lasts a season here and if the nesting birds find them they might not last that long! I had some new coco liners in my garage but chipmunks got in the garage and tore them to bits.

KD, the Latte Stone structures are lovely! They are a wonderful inspiration for a plant container!

Okay, I hear you Audrey, thank you. I had come across something before about cement and cloth used in "draping" projects. Will look for info on internet about this treatment.

KD here is a link to a thread where the cement/cloth is being done. Some really great containers. The thread "Cloth and Cement" in Containers forum

Danita, thank you for your input and encouragement.

Lynn, thank you for the thread link.

Thanks for the call out Lynn. My pillars were made out of hypertufa and quite heavy. But they also make a spray paint that will even stick to plastic that looks like stone. Here's a link to it: http://www.krylon.com/products...

Be sure to show us pictures of your finished projects @KD!

Wow! Thanks Chris! This might solve my problem of heavy cement.

For sure I'll let you guys know how it goes: cement vs. paint. Crossing my fingers.

You're welcome, and good luck with your projects KD!

Thank you Chris, I knew you would be able to help with the paint question.

The self watering pots are that the froggies and toads like....I saw them At Walmart
I asked if one Walamrt has them will they nationwide, he said, maybe
I'm going to look online

http://www.walmart.com/c/kp/se...

http://www.target.com/p/misco-...

well... I thought I'd like to post these... and they are containers I guess.. new LED light making little heat make it work...
cute little jars for patio lights too I guess..
theinspiration.com/2016/03/terrarium-lamps-nui-studio/

Well those are certainly cool and interesting. I wonder what kind of light it is? Do they put out heat?
It is beautiful the way the light show cases the plants.

After caudiciforms, my favorite thing is playing in clay. As a young child I made lots of mud pies and other assorted objects with sticks, leaves, rocks (rocks, my 3rd favorite hobby) and mud.
Clay lasts forever, if stored correctly. I still have blocks of clay that are more than 40 years old. And thankfully my 25 year old electric kiln still works.
4 months ago the mud bug returned and I started playing with clay again. Recently I fired a load of 54 pots, here are some of them.

The tallest is 7 1/2".
































The largestpot is 11" diameter and 6" tall.

Boy Reine, you sure have a creative knack. Each different from the others. I really like the one with three cells; that would be great for succulents. Well they all would be great for succulents. Good job on these containers!

pardalinum so much for your kindness and kind words.
I will be planting some Euphorbias in a lot of them. Maybe some Pachypodium seedlings in the three cell, I haven't quite decided yet.
There are more buckets of clay whispering, coaxing me. Plants are screaming "repot me first" Maybe when the unbearable, hot, humid weather of summer sets in, I'll build more pots.

Reine, those are gorgeous pots! your creativity shows on each of them and I like what I see.

Reine, the one with the hands and the ones that look to have the texture of wood: