Looking to unlikely materials

When I draw into the parking deal atAtlock Farma few week ago , this was the first thing to catch my eye . After admiring the challenging mixture of industrial plant and the monolithic , drool - worthy metal container , I noticed a funny thing . Is that a tire at the foundation of that pot ? It is ! How cool !

According toRay Rogers , who “ plays ” at Atlock ( did I mention , the other day , how awesome this nursery is?Cats … . ) , Ken Selody , the owner of Atlock Farm , bought the urn from an Atlock customer who claimed it was part of the duPonts ’ original dynamite plant life in Delaware . It was once contribute to theBrooklyn Botanic Garden , who used it in a private-enterprise display at the Long House Reserve in East Hampton , where it was pronounce by Martha Stewart … and make headway . The tyre is from an old ( and self-aggrandizing ! ) reel mower used on the sod farm that Atlock was cut up from . Ken thought it had a courteous pattern , and since he needed something to stabilize the rotund - bottomed cauldron , the two were married . The bottom half of the caldron is fill with stones , then landscape textile , then potting mix with lots of composted volaille manure .

Here are the plants in the designing :

Papaya ( Carica pawpaw , USDA Hardiness Zones 10 - 11)Autumn salvia ( Salvia greggiicv . , Zones 7 - 9)Lanatanas ( Lantanacamaracvs . , Zone 11)‘Fireworks ’ fountain pasture ( Pennisetum setaceum‘Fireworks ’ , Zones 9 - 10 )

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