Potting Bench

My lovely husband bought me a good and proper potting bench several years ago.  Fancy wouldn't be too much of a word to use to describe it.  But, I cannot bare to bring it out on the porch and let it endure the elements.  So, I concocted this little potting bench on my own.

My favorite building material is cinder block.  Either I didn't get enough of playing with blocks when I was a kid or not nearly enough.  I love using cinder blocks to make a compost pile, a raised bed, legs for my plant display benches..and now a potting bench!  

The top is a wire grate from an old chick incubator.  I set my potting bench up in the corner of the back porch in the most protected shady part of the patio.  I use the garbage can to hold my potting soil.  It keeps it dry and ant free.  There are a few spare clay pots stacked nearby so they are at the ready for a quick potting job.  You never know when there may be a potting emergency.

The grating and its proximity to the wall make it easy to clean up after potting.  I can wash it all down with a water hose and keep the back porch tidy.

If you like potted plants and don't already have a bench, I encourage you to "build" you one today.  Every piece of it was salvaged!  

Kay

Potted Plant Collection

My mom taught me to love plants.  She had quite a collection as I was growing up.  Now, I too have a collection.  I love all kinds, but I am partial to succulents and irises.  I am also really enjoying getting into herbs.

It has been several years since I have kept plants.  It got to be too much with a house full of wee babies.  

But, now my babies have graduated to helpers and I look forward to sharing my love of plants with them.

I would like to chronicle my collection here on the blog.  Here is my collection as it appears now.  Over the next few weeks, watch it grow with me to a wall of green and blooms.