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| Juncus in a watertight tin tub - set up your own mini water garden! |
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| Hello Dolly tub - it's so nice to have you back where you belong - in the garden, filled with tulips. |
Don't pack off your old tinware when it starts to spring a leak - plant things in it instead, like I've done with this old dolly (wash tub) which was a legacy from the seller at a previous house. It's never going to be abandoned by me though, as it sets planting off so well - particularly these gorgeous orange Ballerina tulips and the purpley pink Passionale.
Here are some other herbaceous hairdos the tub has previously sported:
The patina of this tub makes me keep an eye out each and every time I pass a skip, in the hope that I can find more splendid metal containers to employ in the garden. So far, I've found two zinc mop buckets and the small tub above - love them all.
So keep following the mantra - reduce, reuse, replant it.
For more on tin tubs, try Lead up the garden path.
Fantastic planter!
ReplyDeleteGlad you like it - I had it for several years before I realised its full potential.
ReplyDeleteLooks awesome!! Anna B
ReplyDeleteLove your dolly tub, such a lovely shape, hope my tin bath looks as good next year with my tulips. Thanks for the link!
ReplyDeleteYour dolly tub brought back childhood memories (yes, I am that old) of washday. I would beg Mum to let me agitate the clothes with the posser (wooden stick with three legs). We had a brick copper,too, for heating the water. We've come a long way, haven't we? I would love a dolly tub for my garden, but I've never seen one in the US. P. x
ReplyDeleteI don't go back beyond the days of Hotpoint twin tubs personally! My husband just looked at me weirdly when I called my container a dolly tub - he's convinced I just invent these names... My mum always termed what you call a 'posser' a 'ponch'. Maybe it's a Derbyshire/Staffordshire division in dialects.
DeleteYou can pick up dolly tubs at garden antique places and on ebay here in the UK, but they are not often to be found cheaply. I have half an eye on my allotment neighbour's unused on - might have to try sweet talking him into exchanging it for some plants!
Very nice dolly tub as you call it. We in the Netherlands also have vintage metal wash tubs but in a different shape. This is a very nice one.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to be pretty popular judging by the responses to this post!
DeleteThe planter filled with tulips is gorgeous. So glad I found your blog. Lovely, just lovely!:)
ReplyDeleteThanks very much - glad you like it!
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