More Junk Gardening - Satellite Dish Planters

Everyone is interested in using junk to make into interesting focal points and plant with some great plants these days. I found several old satellite dishes that were obsolete when the company who serves this area with TV signals upgraded and launched a new satellite (it's job security to have everyone changing their equipment every so often!)
I decided to try and use them for a shallow Sempervivum planter. After two years of moving them around and putting them on the ground for the winter for fear of killing off the plants, I stopped doing that, and left them up off the ground. To my surprise, the plants didn't all keel over! What do you think? Are these cool or what?
Painted in my favorite Blue Fox Blue, elegant and classically simple, but so effective...
Drought Smart Plants
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  • Marlene H Marlene H on Feb 11, 2016
    What can I plant in baby pool in Utah? Succulents? You gave me inspiration!
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  • Drought Smart Plants Drought Smart Plants on Jul 27, 2013
    Voles generally don't climb up things to eat them, they dig around in the ground, but that would definitely help with the hot pepper sauce - either it will repel them, or they'll think it's a barbeque!
  • Marlene H Marlene H on Feb 11, 2016
    Once I tried cayenne for a vermin. Best thing was whirly on a stick. Tapping rocks. Maybe pie pans w/spoons, or wind chimes. They only left for noise. lol
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