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I found some photos of the pots I made up in May of 06, and thought some of you might like to see them.
I have a big cement patio in an "L" of a white vinyl-sided house. Obviously this is not my "dream patio". . . One year i spotted 3 bakers racks on clearance at Target at the end of the season, and immediately bought all three. They help break up the expanse of white siding.
There is a little sidewalk that goes around a corner of the two-story part of the house to the back garage door. In that corner I placed a little wooden rack I found at the local garden center.
In the years we decide to go all-out with our annuals in containers, I go to the bedding greenhouse and buy the plants, go to Sam's and buy potting mix, and set up a folding table as a work center on the patio, and do all the potting up. I like to place the empty pots on the bakers racks first, then start the potting up. The whole operation takes several afternoons of shopping and potting, and then we are tied to daily watering and deadheading all summer, of course. (Luckily DH does most of it with just a little grumbling.)
The first photo is from the day I was doing the potting.
By the way, I learned the hard way to put the flats of annuals on the grass, and the work table on the patio, not vice versa. If I stand in the same place in the grass all afternoon, the grass underfoot gets smushed!
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