Looking for pretty or veggie?

Al

Or both :)

Both!

Ok I'll post a few pics. I just took these in the rain. One is a raised bed 8x4 x 3 foot deep. It has lettuce, carrots , Swiss chard, garlic, onion basil , tomato and Swiss chard in it now. There is a key lime tree in the corner in a container. The other pic are some citrus trees- Washington dwarf navel, Owari Satsuma and gold nugget mandarin. I also have several herbs in containers some hanging and others on top of bark on the ground. The pic I posted are 2 types of oregano and some chives below. I also have containers of 2 types of Bay leaf trees, purple sage, chocolate mint, lemon thyme and regular thyme, shallots, lemon grass, marjoram and a few other herbs.

Oh that's nice!!

I love that Bonsai. I'm going to do that this year with some ornamental pepper plants.

Here is our pond I landscaped last weekend with both container and in ground plants.

tapla, what all is in your planter beside the bird house? (Purple plants basket). Also what's is the green tall plant beside the little frog and orange pot

The plant in the ground to the left of the frog on the cement 'table' is a variegated brugmansia. To the left of the birdhouse there is a trailing coleus, a begonia, an asparagus fern (plumosa), an impatiens and another unknown noid trailing vine someone else might be able to identify. To the right of the bird house - a begonia, a variegated ivy, and a common houseplant I can't recall the name of for some reason I'm not as young as I used to be. ;-)

This old thread has a LOT of nice pictures in it.

For nick:

Al

Those bonsai trees look amazing !!!

Last spring (little over a year ago) was my first attempt at any real container gardening for vegetables. It was very much an experimental year but it worked quite well for peppers & cucumbers and we did pretty darn well well with an unexpectedly large zucchini until the pickle worms moved in. This year my work schedule has our garden a bit empty, but these are a few pictures from last year.

We have other potted plants (decorative and edible) around the yard, but this and my son's 2x2 box container are what we refer to as "the garden".

All in in all its been a lot of fun even if it's not excessively "cute" (as my wife might prefer).

why did you put that off the ground like that, critters or a bad back?

Nil13, The way it worked out, there are quite a ways that it's been convenient / beneficial.

Yes, it avoids the need to bend over (no bad back but it's still ) and yes, it keeps our lizard-chasing dog out of the garden and yes, it prevents the moles that we have rummaging around under yard from getting to it to it... But in our case the biggest reason is light. This is on the north side of our house in a location where, during much of the year, the shadow from the house almost reaches the fence at the property line. The height of the soil line in the container is such that it will avoid the shadow and receive full sunlight all year. There are also added benefits of almost zero weed growth and making it much more difficult for the person that mows our lawn to inadvertently mow over or weed-wack something we'd rather not have destroyed. We can mow / edge right around it with no problem. There are a few other reasons I opted to do it this way (like plans to experiment with PVC to build a winter-time greenhouse frame onto it) but the sunlight is the biggest reason.