Wow, this goes back to Feb 2018. The project is on hold because of my marital separation In June and living at a temporary location (temp
, on the eve of August 2018). The old wood toolcase would be an awesome semp planter but I'm not able to enact on that project at this time.
Today I visited a nursery, and found a wide (18") dish-shaped ceramic-glazed planter ($30) and bought it. Will test it for outside use and overwintering... dish-shaped "pots" don't break from expanding ice action, the freezing expansion happens vertically/lifting, without horizontal confinement and breakage.
I have my 7th semp order of the 2018 season arriving tomorrow, 21 new additions, bringing my total of new 2018 accessions to 167. Some of these will go into my new dish planter.
New glazed ceramic dish-shaped planter:
New glazed ceramic dish-shaped planter, has a built-in base.
Right-hand photo, my personal peeve, stickers that are extremely difficult to remove and de-gum of glue residue.
Also bought a smaller terracotta-color plastic dish planter, same difficult price sticker removal issue. Need mineral spirits or turpentine to remove the glue residue, which I didn't have access to, but gasoline works to dissolve the persistent glue equally as well.
Come to find out, the ceramic dish product is designed to have an accompanying "pedestal" ceramic pot base, although they had none there. I mocked-up what it might look like to have the dish raised by a base, will work on getting a proper base. My planting up of this planter will follow:
