Glass jar garden

[ChanellG]

Oh, sorry, I guess I forgot! It's really tall, I'm going to have to find another home for it soon. My ginger just flowered as well. I may try and start some zinnias indoors; I'd like to have more flowers growing.

 

[maddie]

Wow that is a nice huge red ribbed flower... Thanks for posting.. Now all I have in my garden is geraniums in bloom.. just one or two here and there. Even the carnations aren't flowering this time.. maybe I need to feed the plants some more.
I can see your ginger poking out from beneath the flower.

 

[ChanellG]

Wow that is a nice huge red ribbed flower... Thanks for posting.. Now all I have in my garden is geraniums in bloom.. just one or two here and there. Even the carnations aren't flowering this time.. maybe I need to feed the plants some more.
I can see your ginger poking out from beneath the flower.

Yep, that's it; I didn't notice it was visible until I was posting the photo. That is the larger one (container) of the two. They both need to be thinned out, but I need more containers. I don't want to put them in the ground because they will spread like mad.

Also, my dad gave them to me when he thinned the plants in his yard; he lost his to frost a couple years ago and I think mine being in pots is what saved them.

I want to get some geraniums as well as hydrangea and blue irises.

 

[claudine]

ChanellG, this hibiscus in bloom looks so lovely, I really like the color. It's wonderful to see some flowers, even though it's only a picture. I miss spring so much. I guess I should start growing something that would bloom during winter - if only I had more space for plants

 

[maddie]

Here is an interesting picture I found while searching the www for planters..

 

[ChanellG]

ChanellG, this hibiscus in bloom looks so lovely, I really like the color. It's wonderful to see some flowers, even though it's only a picture. I miss spring so much. I guess I should start growing something that would bloom during winter - if only I had more space for plants

Thanks, Claudine! It's so nice to be greeted by my flowers when I return home and they are a nice surprise when I open the door to go out and discover something else has bloomed.

Here is an interesting picture I found while searching the www for planters..

Maddie, when I look at this one all I can say is "Wow!" That's a lot of hangers; it's kind of overwhelming!

 

[claudine]

Here is an interesting picture I found while searching the www for planters..

I love it! It looks like something made by a gardening-obsessed wife of a scientist or a chemist . It's strange but also really unique

 

[maddie]

I love it! It looks like something made by a gardening-obsessed wife of a scientist or a chemist . It's strange but also really unique

I love it too... strange but since it is glass it doesn't overwhelm you all that much.. despite the number of glass vases there..

 

[claudine]

I love it too... strange but since it is glass it doesn't overwhelm you all that much.. despite the number of glass vases there..

Yes, it's a lot of glass vases, but I think I could have something like this in my dream house. It looks very interesting.

This is quite cute, glass is such a subtle decoration:

 

[happyflowerlady]

I really like the idea of growing the herbs in the glass jars, and I have some extra ones laying around that I have saved for something, and never used. I think they will be ideal for the herbs. I also saved some plastic 2 liter bottles and was going to make a planter out of them, and I am thinking that maybe one of the self watering planters would be the best way to use these bottles.
I have a few basil that are coming up, and they should be perfect for the jars.

 

[ChanellG]

I still don't have the drainage material to do this and I don't buy much stuff in jars so I almost never have any available for repurposing, but once I am better organized I may start collecting them from friends and sitting them inside decorative clay pots. I think this might be better than having the roots exposed to light and I would use the jars for bulb plants.

 

[EmberxDoll]

I just tried the self-watering 2 liter thing today, I'm excited to see how it goes. I also have some old jars. I would like to try growing in the jars. I have seen many videos and such of people having an enormous amount of success with both. They seem like they would be good for people with limited space.

 

[taskeinc]

One of the fascinating things you'll see when you have a glass jar garden is that the roots grow extremely fast, almost as if they take on a life of their own; a miniature ecosystem of roots and plants. I'm going to take a picture of one that I started a few months ago, maybe 5-6 months ago, and now the roots have just about covered the entire container. I'll put the before and after pictures side by side.

 

[ChanellG]

I just tried the self-watering 2 liter thing today, I'm excited to see how it goes. I also have some old jars. I would like to try growing in the jars. I have seen many videos and such of people having an enormous amount of success with both. They seem like they would be good for people with limited space.

I want to try the self-watering bottle planters also. I have to organize my supplies and borrow a drill (tried putting a hole in a plastic cap yesterday to no avail.) I plan to use the bottles as a temporary measure to deal with excess and plants I will be giving away.

 

[EmberxDoll]

I want to try the self-watering bottle planters also. I have to organize my supplies and borrow a drill (tried putting a hole in a plastic cap yesterday to no avail.) I plan to use the bottles as a temporary measure to deal with excess and plants I will be giving away.

I tried the simpler method that has the water at the bottom, with the towel and such. I do want to try the little tower type. Where they're drilled and the water falls from one to another. A hanging bottle garden seems like it would be fairly attractive.