And a few more pics....

[carrot-cruncher]

....'cos I'm still learning to use my new digital camera.



Queen of the night tulips in an old sink which was gratis




Various other containers obtained from car boots, canal boat festivals and 2nd hand dealers.   The big black container at the back is my hydrangea, the red container is a dwarf rhodo, the others are a mixture of crocus, snowdrops, tulips & some other flowers who'se name I can't remember but I thought they looked pretty.   The empty blue pot will shortly have mixed lettuce in it.

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[carrot-cruncher]

[GREENWIZARD]

love your painted planters :D

[dibberxxx]

the painted pots are lovely wish i could paint pots like that

[carrot-cruncher]

The old tin bath in the middle of the second picture I just painted up with silver hammerite & filled with short-rooted carrots in everyday compost.   All it then got was rainwater but it produced a wonderful crop of the most sweet-tasting carrots you could ever imagine.   I had the final harvest this weekend.   Think I may repeat it again this year.

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ps.   Sorry about the size of the pictures, it wasn't until after I'd posted them that I discovered how to resize them in photobucket.

[Fingle....]

jesus....do you know how much those sinks are worth !!!

[carrot-cruncher]

I believe the belfast sinks cost a small fortune now, fortunately I had some unbelievable luck in obtaining mine.   

I came across council workmen clearing a house several doors away from where I live.   When I asked the workmen what they planned to do with the sink they said it would be taken down the tip and destroyed!!!!!   I asked if I could have it for plants (which is what the previous tenants had already used it for) & the guys said "if you want it, take it".

Even after emptying it out I still couldn't lift it so a couple of the council guys kindly carried it to my house for me.   I gave it a blast with the hose pipe, a good scrub, filled it with fresh compost, stuck my bulbs in, and hey presto....

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[Fingle....]

erm.....il swap it for some lovely terracotta ones

[Mrs Ava]

I have a whoppa in the garden which will shortly be filled with something or the other, and  a smaller square one.  Mum has a couple in her garden also.  The benefits of having a dad who was a milkman working around Kensington and Knightbridge was in the 70's and 80's when they were ripping all of those 'old' fixtures and fittings out, he would ask the gaffer and load his milk float up with them for me to fill with plants. 

[Heldi]

I love the painted containers too. They look like the stuff you see on narrowboats.

Love butler sinks,they are so hard to come by now unless you want to pay a small fortune in a reclamation yard. I found mine in a bric a brac shop. I couldn't believe my luck. Its a proper bric a brac shop,not a reclamation yard or pretending to be antiques, which makes a change.

What is the difference between belfast and butler sinks? Not a joke I'm curious that's all.

[Marianne]

What a beautiful array of containers !
:D

[wardy]

I have a recipe for the hypertufa you can make to cover the white pot sinks to make them look like real stone.  It's easy and it works. To speed up the ageing process you can paint the finished article when thoroughly dry with water mixed with a bit of manure, or yogurt or milk.  It then gets quickly colonised by green algea and moss, lichens etc and it makes it look old  :)  I can publish the recipe ... I have it somewhere