What a great container!!I buy hanging plants to divide too - many times a great deal.

I love red geraniums. That is gorgeous! I have learned that for hot and windy, line your planters with bubblewrap before adding the soil. Helps insulate them.

What a nice combination,and i love those trailing geraniums.I'll have to get me a red one,i only have pinks and whites.
Kathi

Oh now, that is beautiful! Love the red with the galvanized! Great idea! & I understand what you are saying with 'frost' nights & wind ...same here. This is a great idea ...I'll have to be on the outlook now for an old mop bucket! TFS, luvs! Jeanne S.

That is gorgeous!!!!

Absolutely beautiful! Great idea.

P.O.P-O-Color!!!!Eye catching!

Love that look and you really got some nice geraniums. A local lumber store had gorgeous hanging baskets last month for $3.99. Talk about stocking up....thought DH was gonna take my car keys away so i'd quit going back. And that is what I did, repotted to my pots.
Jeaninwa, thanks for the bubble-wrap tip. I've never heard that one but certainly will try it. Last year I saw a post giving directions on how to put bubble wrap on your windows to help insulate your house. Never tried it.....but there was days last summer when the heat was so bad I considered trying it!

BEAUTIFUL!!! What a great container and I love the wheels to help move it! And what a great price....I'd definitely have jumped on that as well. Thanks for sharing with us Luvs.

Thanks all - I just keep staring out the window at it! Jeanne - I found the mop bucket for $2 at a thrift store!

Love it!!!

Great find! & I love galvanized...maybe I'll get that lucky, luvs! I added my one 'hot pink' Geranium & Diamond Frost & Pink Gaura & Purple Salvia to a round/rope handled galvanized pot in pool garden...I'll share a pic when it gets established a little...but you inspired me to use that Geranium in there! Jeanne S.

Your geraniums look great in the mop bucket.
I think I have one 'somewhere'-will have to look.
I just put an orange one in my cast-iron bathtub
with some orange impatiens, and purple Mexican
petunias. I know the M Ps will go crazy and I
will probably have to pull a bunch out soon, but
though I would try that anyway.
I have not used bubble wrap, but have found that
if I line ALL pots with holes with Plastic, up
about 2 inches from the bottom in the pots, that
I don't have to water as often.
No, it doesn't make the roots rot. Any excess
water will go over the top of the plastic.

Love the red with the galvanized pail. I have 1 sitting on my patio, never thought of planting it. The tip on bubble wrap sounds great too. Think I will try it on back bedroom window too, DD's room(craft room now) gets so hot in summer in afternoon. Thanks for all the ideas! Jan

I have also used disposable diapers in the bottom of pots, especially baskets, to help hold the water. The silicon in them retains the water.

Great!! Of course now I have been searching Craigslist for a cheap mop bucket!! I will wait for a TS or tree lawn find - I will I will I will!!!! Really