7. A cast stone cherub planter, 13 inches wide, is $89 at Smith & Hawken.
The Huson galvanized steel planter, 18 inches high, comes in silver or black; $19.95 at Ikea, (800) 434-4532, or www.ikea.com.
Right, a Georgian planter, 18 inches square, looks like zinc but is made of a lightweight clay and fiber composite; $79 at Restoration Hardware.
So goes the press release, but what really draws me into this design is the copper band (a very on-trend material...) that flows through the garden's different levels before reaching a planter 3.5 above ground.
Richard Prince: Untitled (Tire Planter), 2007/08.
Above-average rainfall in the later part of the planting season decreased Cf by over 20% for the Step planter from 1.14 to 0.91 ha h−1; largely due to delays in the headlands.
Without a car to my name, I had to order supplies online: big pots and planters, 40 pounds of topsoil and the plants themselves.
The planters, 3,400 of them, were seeded and germinated at a farm in New Paltz, N.Y., then trucked down to the city and installed at 5 a.m. several weeks ago.
Donald Rutledge, a construction project designer and manager in New Braunfels, Tex., devised a triple-pulley system so he could easily hoist his nine upside-down planters 16 feet above the ground, away from ravenous deer.
That means Cubist-inspired vertical planters 12 feet high billowing with silvery bromeliads; great chandelier-like baskets of green philodendrons dripping with fuchsia and purple orchids; a free-standing wall covered with 800 white phalaenopsis, or moth orchids; and a single staghorn fern the size of a condor.
You may want to add some braces to strengthen your planter. 1 inch by 1 inch pieces of wood cut to the height of your box work marvelously!
