When the little clay planter sprouts, she said, "I think I'll sit and have my coffee by it".
This week, I've been putting together a little DIY terraced planter so we can maximize the sun that gets to our urban garden.
I have been told that workers in the tea gardens have beaten up several planters, with little or no punishment from the police.
Often in those years, the price on world markets was barely above the cost of production, leaving planters with little to show for their efforts.
A friend warned that it would soon be little more than a planter.
They formed a little pile under a metal planter full of succulents in my garden, but the wind carried them away, or birds did, and nothing ever grew.
Into an existing flower box, Katrin Asbury placed a miniature red rock diorama inhabited by little hyenalike animals; in another planter, Alyson Shotz installed a grove of weird, plant-machine hybrids: tall, slender stalks made of Q-tips coated in green rubber with wheels instead of roots.
Cruzvillegas, a Mexican conceptual artist best known for creating sculptures from objects he finds locally, said it may look like little is going on in the planters but that there is plenty of action.
A woman with a little boy sat on a low planter.
The town proper reflects little of the region's legacy, which also includes Spanish planters, Haitian and African slaves, American Indians and, later, waves of German, Italian and other immigrants.
