tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780183940619955585.post6394856542674870073..comments2023-06-04T08:25:32.229-07:00Comments on <center>The Shabbi Gypsy </center> : Container Gardening in Re-Purposed Rusty Cans Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11944830859647370706noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780183940619955585.post-65785006542121576212015-09-28T20:08:49.791-07:002015-09-28T20:08:49.791-07:00People pay for rusty cans, what a great idea to ju...People pay for rusty cans, what a great idea to just leave them outside in the winter! Brutus might be a mean kitty, but sounds more like a great guard dog...Yikkes coyotes...All we have in Florida is alligators lol!<br /><br />CarolThe Polka Dot Closethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04509900941899875184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780183940619955585.post-14444814080169367402015-09-25T13:04:08.388-07:002015-09-25T13:04:08.388-07:00I would never think to let cans rust out to use as...I would never think to let cans rust out to use as pots. These are really pretty. What a great idea.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05673288414533354350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780183940619955585.post-74711298385099776912015-09-25T10:45:16.651-07:002015-09-25T10:45:16.651-07:00Your rusty planters look so nice with the impatien...Your rusty planters look so nice with the impatient plants. What a great idea.<br />Have a nice weekend.<br />Julie <br />Julie's Lifestylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13804692908534378507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780183940619955585.post-74453532840661676112015-09-23T09:06:54.900-07:002015-09-23T09:06:54.900-07:00I couldn't resist popping in when I saw the ti...I couldn't resist popping in when I saw the title on Kathy's sidebar---these call to mind all the wonderful rusty cans of flowers ranged up and down the steps of my Mammaw's weathered old porch, and all around the yard. Her mainstay in those was coleus, and I can just see all those battered red coffee cans (mostly Folgers) and tomato cans sans labels, changing ever browny-gold as the seasons went on.<br /><br />She was a wonderful country-woman (small town but raised WAY out in the Mississippi hills. I just realized I don't know her education---perhaps eighth grade, I suppose, but she was wise in all the ways of planting, dark-of-the-moon stuff and raising chickens and had a cow right there in town until I was perhaps ten). She carried on a lifelong correspondence with "Park" and "Burpee," writing them long letters of her saved-seeds and her nurturing of different colours from year to year.<br /><br />I love remembering her pronunciation of things: She called the plants "coleas"---plural, and if she gave you a single plant, it was a colea in that can you carried home.<br /><br />She even had knowledge of which colours flowers would be, according to planting in the ground, a pot, or a rusty can, with whatever the oxidation did to the soil.<br /><br />What a lovely reminiscence you've kindled, here on this First Day of Fall. Thank you for the good old memories.<br /><br />rachelRachelDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11204947567574886675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780183940619955585.post-34840316338646427892015-09-22T14:17:29.300-07:002015-09-22T14:17:29.300-07:00Oh that's a great idea Tamara ... we only have...Oh that's a great idea Tamara ... we only have smaller cans but I think it would work beautifully in them too. Thanks for the tip :)Filhttp://www.fil-campbell.blogspot.co.uknoreply@blogger.com