I love succulents so much they are at my front door!  They are so carefree!  They can go many days without water or sun (an important feature in the Pacific Northwest).  The right succulents are perennials.  Just check when you are buying them.

As you can see from these photos, I select a range of colors, textures and styles.  Mix in some rocks, figurines, an evergreen, almost anything that is appealing to you.  I really like the spiky grass as a contrast and its light and water needs match the succulents.

To provide unity, I used two ceramic pots of the same color even though they are different styles and shapes.

All gardeners have failures, you just have to turn them in to successes!  That tall slender evergreen in the pot?  It started out as one of several miniature evergreen trees in the same pot.  After a couple of years, the other trees either died or became too gangly.  This evergreen put down a tap root through the hole in the bottom of the pot.  I really did not want it to get larger so I cut off the tap root and put the pot on the black top.  That has stopped it’s growth, at least for this year!

We had a chair that the bottom strapping had worn out and broken through. In our town you just can not put a chair out next to your trash can and have it picked up. You have to take it to the transfer station and throw it into a inter-modal container which is then taken by truck to the railroad yard and put on the daily unit garbage train and taken to the landfill. The minimum fee for the transfer station is $20.00. Throwing this chair out was not worth $20.00 that was for sure.

Need is the mother of invention and we needed to find something to do with this old patio chair. Bob had the idea of turning it into a planter. We found a pot that would fit inside the chair frame. Bob had a some small cut off pieces of  2″x4″ treated lumber from building the fence. These where put on the ground and the pot set on top of them. Linda filled the pot with some gravel in the bottom for drainage and a mixture of potting soil and 1/3 compost, then planted the pot with some flowers We now had a new garden accent for the cost of a new pot! The cost of the pot was a lot less then the $20.00 fee at the transfer station.

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Linda tells about how she over came the winter cold in her greenhouse to keep her plants safe and growing.

Linda from Garden Accent Heaven shows you some of the plants that she grew over the winter inside of her greenhouse.