If if holds dirt it's a planter, water and it's a water garden! Shoes, boots, hats, baskets, old bar-b-que grills, pots, pans, cups, boxes, wooden boxes, igloo coolers, wire baskets, a ladle, purse, chairs, dog bowls.... the problem is in our climate most of it rots in about a season but it's fun and looks cute.
Tally HO!

My neighbors threw out an old wall fountain because it was cracked (perfect for drainage), so I "rescued" it, DH drilled three more holes in the bottom, and it hangs on my fence with trailing petunias in it. I'll bet they would want it back if they could see it now.

I was given a milk can--the big tin kind that you see for megabucks at antique stores. This one for some reason has a round bottom, so sitting upright isn't an option. I laid it partly on its side at about a 60 degree angle, filled the bottom with broken bricks for stability, and then put a pot of trailing lantana in the opening. The lantana is white (milk, get it?).

You should post photos 'cause I'd really like to see what you have.

I have a lot of the same...wash tubs, an enamel pot, one copper pot. I also have a cement head planter that I made who has held up now for about four years.--Her hair is made of oregano. Her neck is a bit too long. (Grin.) I also have the housing from a ceiling fan, but it's so shallow that almost all I plant in it dies.

I once made a bog garden in an old Coleman ice chest;
it eventually sprung a leak & had to be demoted to mulch carrier.

& my brother gave me the rusting pans from his old smoker.

They're a plain dark color, but they're about the same shape & size as those old enamel dishpans our grandmothers used for "moss rose" (portulaca).

I have some kind of succulent in them.

Not very creative in planters, myself. Of course, I have a postage stamp lot, so it is hard to get creative in a tiny landscape, anyway.

Where's Phyllis?

Her hubs made her a planter out of a section of log;
laid it on its side & cut a "V" halfway through it along the top length.

It seems like he somehow scooped out some of the insides to make the cavity deeper, & she keeps pansies & stuff in it. It's very pretty.

That's a neat idea. I have several sections of logs that I saved for some kind of project. Rick, you are welcome to one of them if you'd like to try your hand at carving - be a healthier way to spend your time than drinking rodent poop coffee, IMHO. haha You gotta wonder anyway, whose idea it was to try making coffee out of dodo and why would they even think of it? During the civil war southerners who couldn't get real coffee, made coffee out of roasted acorns. But I bet it never occurred to a single American to cook up a pot of poop and make coffee out of it. It could be a terrorist plot ya know? Get Americans hooked on stewed sh!t and then point out what an inferior race we are because we ingest it. Machiavelian, if you ask me. You should check to see of those people might have been hypnotized, Rick, try snapping your fingers in front of their faces and shouting wake up! By the way, was that stuff decaf? It was awfully late to be drinking coffee. Cheryl

HAHAHA, Cheryl, you remind me of a lady that used to be on GW and she was a hoot and I miss her

Actually it does have a lower caffine content, due to the way the digestive tract affects it before passing through.

The coffee tasted fine. Smooth, even. Is it worth the price? NO WAY.

In any case, I am too old to be kept awake by coffee. I did well to stay up past midnight, without falling asleep.

Okay, so I somehow missed the original post on rodent-poop coffee. Where do you buy it? Not that I want any...Just curious. And now back to the Unusual Planters: Next... :-)

If you're handy with tools (I'm a *disaster*), you can drill a hole in the bottom of any glass, ceramic, or pottery container with a drill & a good masonry drill bit.

I've put plants in glass bowls, old china teapots, & soup mugs.

I once took one screw out of the bottom of an old stainless steel electric percolator & put ivy in it.

Also, one of the cutest prizes at November's FW Swap was a planter made from a pair of child-sized "wellies".