So glad to see photos! I started thinking about this after reading about "story" or "landscape" containers in an ancient old Agatha Christie (of course, the container pebbles turned out to be diamonds!). I like your dinosaur scene too - because it's so successful viewed from above. I've been thinking of "landscaping" a double container I planted this year - a tall skinny central container embedded in a wider, shallow container. Still thinking of "vertical" ideas that will work at eye-level (it's on the gate-pillar by our front door). Love the old aquarium idea, but need shade-tolerant plants.., ideas most welcome. I have a couple of toy yellow metal diggers and trucks that I want to incorporate into containers (no fairy dolls round here, sadly, it's all-boy territory!). I think they would go nicely in a rectangular herb trough, since I find that many herbs enjoy the heat stored by largish rocks in their containers.

schoolhouse, These Larkspurs were originally planted further up the hill, nearer to the house, but over time they spread down the hill and almost took over the front yard. I loved it! No Mow Grass! I had to weed-eat around them the second year. By the third year, well, the above is the result. But alas, we had two severe drought years with no rain during that whole time and above normal high temps and they all died before they could go to seed. Bye bye larkspurs. Even the Bermuda grass died. Last year we had enough rain to sustain them, but I was too ill to extend my gardening beyond the immediate back yard. But this year, I am feeling better and I hope to re-establish flowers in the front again, especially the tall blue Larkspurs. I have the seeds - lots of packets of seeds. Not sure how I am going to keep my big dogs out of the seeding area until they grow to size. Once they are established, they will go around. They are very respectful of "Marmie's gardens", my good boys. If you look closely at the photo, on the left side, just below the cedar bough and berries, you can just make out a little tree. That is a Native Oklahoma Redbud tree I planted that year. It has now grow into a lovely, medium sized tree and provides much needed shade in the front yard in summer. You will also notice that there is a triangular space of just grass in the center of the larkspurs from there down the hill to where the larkspurs end. The dogs run a path around that space and it looks like a good spot to re-establish my flowers. Maybe I can put up a little 2 ft. fence of hogwire around it. The roses and Bridles Wreath spireas no longer hang over the fence into the yard like that on account of the dogs running along the fence line. They have to run somewhere. So I deal with it. The bushes hang over the fence the other way now into the driveway side. I planted a white Rose of Sharon & a Forsythia bush in the middle of those roses on the outside of the fence. It looks so pretty in the spring when the roses and forsythia are all in bloom and then in the summer when the RoS is blooming with the last bloom of the roses. I am going to plant some columnar junipers or spruces up by the house and evergreen shrubs...somewhere. On this hill, they will look even taller and stately. Anyway, that's the plan - I hope it works. I want larkspurs growing there again. We shall see.....

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