Just 10 years ago, these fabulous ideas for landscaping could only have been found in three places: 1) Fancy gardens of rich people, 2) Home and Garden magazines, or 3) In your own imagination.  Now we can find them everywhere thanks to great people who share their ideas online.  How about this?  A totem pole made from flower pots?

From hometalk.com,

 I collected beautiful pots and plates from Goodwill and garage sales. I dug a hole 12″ deep intserted a piece of rebar, which can be purchased at a hardware store in any length of your choice. Fill the hole with concrete. Level the rebar to make it straight. Once the concrete dries..overnight is good, start putting the pots and plates onto the rebar in an artistic order, gluing them as you go…

Beautiful!

Photo from burgh baby.

Whether you like to put big ferns on your front porch during the summer, use them as decor for a special event, or just want to show off your green thumb, there are two secrets to growing huge Boston Ferns. From House of Flowers, it’s the pot size and watering,

Here’s everyone’s biggest misconception…that they will overwater their fern.  NOT TRUE!  It is virtually impossible to overwater an fern…they LOVE water!  So many people comment that they water them with about the same frequency as they would their indoor plants…maybe once every few days.   Bosten Ferns crave water…in fact, they need it daily, and during our extremely hot summer days of 90+ degree heat, it wouldn’t hurt to water them twice a day…once as you leave for work, and once when you return.   Trust me…if you have adequate drainage, you will not drown your fern.  Think about it…think about lush rain forests.  What do you find in those wet areas?  You got it…Ferns!

Love the tips! Now get to growing!

Photo from Melissa’s Heart and Home.

Photo by Street Art Utopia.

The idea is to prepare for a wedding by spending a year picking up milk glass, then growing succulent plants for the centerpieces.  I applaud the work that went into this and the attention to detail.

Here’s what Miss Morgan Melim says about her project,

When we moved up here we slowly began planting succulents in large and small pots around the house. I was shocked how quickly they began to breed! Crazy baby succulents popped up all around the big ones. Also a few weeks ago my grandma gave me a GIANT pot of succulents she had grown, so we had a ton.

Be sure to click through and look at all the phenomenal pictures!

Photo from Woodland Dreams.

Photo by spablab via flickr creative commons.

Genius comes in many forms and the latest is in the form of a hanging fruit basket combined with an herb garden.  From the kitchen section of Apartment Therapy,

This design concept from Måns Salomonsen is not just good-looking — it’s very clever, too. The herb garden on top absorbs excess moisture from the fruit, and then as it this moisture evaporates it cools the area below — helping the fruit stay fresh longer.

Brilliant!

The first time I saw the watering bulbs on tv, I was smitten.  I fell head over heels in love with everything about them – they were pretty AND they watered plants in a timely manner.  I’m not too bad with plants.  In fact I have one that is about 30 years old that I’ve managed to keep alive with regular water and an occasional dose of plant food.

Sadly my husband has been resistent in buying me one.  It’s one of those things I’d never buy myself, so I keep hinting around.  To no avail.  I think I’m going to have to turn up the heat, though, because a friend of mine just told me how wonderful her watering bulbs are.   PLUS, the Gardening Resources web site even suggests them kind of,

All indoor plants will need water and a watering device is essential. There is the simple watering can to something even more elaborate depending on what you need. You can choose from the expensive glass bulbs to stick into the soil of the house plants to something simple like adding a plastic water bottle to a stake inside the pot or container.

Hellooo husband.  I want them!!

I love the bright red of the poinsettias that we see this time of year.  For years I ordered them as a school fundraiser, but as my daughters got older and left elementary school, I couldn’t bring myself to buy them from the grocery store, though the prices are decent.

Plus, they started taking over my house.  I just couldn’t bear the idea of throwing the plant out after Christmas – the green leaves stayed pretty throughout the year.  I finally sucked it up, put on my big girl britches, and got rid of them.  And it broke my heart seeing the green plants out by the trash can in the cold weather.

According to our Ron – writing over at PopFi – the poinsettia is the most popular plant in America.

The poinsettia is actually the most popular potted plant in the States, with over 85 percent of its sales coming in the holiday season.  This notoriously difficult to farm plant was made popular by Paul Ecke in the 1950’s, and the Paul Ecke farms produce half the world’s supply of poinsettias from a proprietary technique kept secret by the family until the 90’s.

Come to find out, you CAN replant them.  Next time I won’t have to be so heartless…