valleylynn said:That sounds fascinating Eric. I can't wait to see photos of your rope art. That is a wonderful way to display the blooms/buds, right at eye level.
Well, after searching for a few days for the hanging, lit ginger planter, I relented and ask "she who keeps track of things I lose." She reminded me that when we helped one of her friends move a few weeks ago, I offered her friend and her friend's husband to take one of my creations as a house warming gift, and the husband chose the ginger planter.
So I'll have to make another one (or two) of those for next year.
As a consolation, here are some pictures of my latest creation.
This piece is made for a 12 inch plastic planter pot. The one shown is the "Newberry" 12 inch pot from Home Depot. It's also a perfect fit for the "Suncast" 12 inch planter pot from Walmart. I've used the 12 inch planter pots like this successfully to grow parsley, cilantro, sage, (all outdoors), as well as sweet peppers (both outdoors and indoors), and it can support a single smaller (determinate) tomato plant, although this planter lacks any net or trellis to support a tomato vine.
I believe (I haven't tried this one), it will also fit very well with a 10 inch clay terra cotta pot on a saucer. Most of my creations will fit the next size downt on a terra cotta clay pot on a saucer (with rocks or marbles between the saucer and the pot for improved drainage).
This piece has a built in light fixture for a PAR-38 (4-3/4") "spot light". The distance from the light to the top edge of the pot is about 22 inches. A 25-30 degree beam angle "spot" lamp is best for this piece. It's shown with a 30 degree beam blue/white "aquarium" light. I'm hoping that light will be more successful with leafy herbs. I'm trying sage, cilantro and parsley in this pot. I just planted the seeds yesterday.
Here's a closer up picture of the light fixture and the top part of the piece:
Here's the basket/bottom detail, showing how the pot sits in the piece.
Here's a picture showing the detail on the center section of the 6 strands.
I'm not sure if "advertising" is allowed here, but if anyone wants one of these, you can "treemail" me for details. Lynn, if that's not allowed, feel free to remove the last paragraph.
