Was reading here trying to think of what I could re-use as a planter when I remembered I already had done a couple of things….I took an old plastic toy wheel barrow my kids had when they were little and planted some herbs and petunias in it last year.  This year it will be johnny jump-ups and herbs, 'cause that is what I have left over.

We also had a metal fire pit a year or so ago. You know, the kind that the bottom always burns out of. Well, it did. Last year I lined what was left of the metal bowl part with a plastic garbage bag, planted mums, sage and corkscrew willow in it and set it back on the metal ring. It looked like a witch's cauldron, sort of. We used it as a Halloween decoration. The sage is coming back but unfortunately the willow tree died, darn it. Of course, the mums died. Think I'll use calendula this year, instead  of mums, as much as  I like them.

And the sage should probably have been "white sage". Isn't that what they use in spiritual ceremonies and all? Smudging and cleansing and such. Think I'll get more use out of garden sage, but in keeping with the theme…

LOL! That is funny! I plant in a teapot and an old horse bucket. I also have an old weathered rocking chair with a tall dahlia growing through the seat and scarlet runner beans growing up the side.