To cheer me up on a miserable day!

Hi spritz, I have just gone and joined my local freecycle group. Thanks for pointing it out.

Hi spritz, what lovely cheerful pics. I tried to join my area Freecycle, but cannot seem to get access. You have shown, however, that it really works.

They are all lovely and cheery Spritz (and I like the yellow one!!) In French, pansies are pensées which means little thoughts - just "though" it was nice!

Hi spritz, love the pics, and have cheered me up on windy and rainy day, added to which my daughter has been ill so have also been up all night! your bright pansies are a lovely sight, like you i have had to settle for pots and no baskets, ours is not a listed building tho - more i am not allowed as my dad recently had our house rendered for us (kind daddy!) i have some lovely pots of pansies which i have also planted some tulips and daffs in - maybe i'll include some photos too.

Yes, mine all have bulbs hidden in their depths! Mostly I use 'Tete a Tete and other miniature Narcissi, and short Tulips, Muscari and Scillas - oh and Chionodoxa too, as the wind is so strong here, taller bulbs tend to break and the smaller ones cope better. Great when their shoots appear, makes me look forward to spring!

Lovely colours and schemes to offset the grey season. Sue and I have recently winter planted our pots, but flowers are yet to come. I'll post pic's when they show.

dear fritz... your plants / flowers are lovely I really hope that I have a larger space .. I could only keeping orchids ...

Thank you. Have you seen my orchids, Mariv0827? I posted a blog with photos of some of them last month!

Welcome to GOY.

Lovely blog Spritz, I must get more containers:-)

Ah-ha! So you've been surfing the archives, have you? Thank you.

I shall have to write another one for this winter, won't I! My containers are all planted differently this year.

Yes - containers really cheer the place up in the winter months! I can't fit any more in....lol.

Yes, I went on container ideas I think:-)

Yes, Spritz, you must update us on how to cheer ourselves up with winter containers, that would be great!

Otherwise, we'll just have to come on here and gawp at your wonderful examples!!! :-O

Your containers are ideal for cheering up grey days.
I agree with you on the freecycle groups though in my area they have altered the title to "freegle". Maybe that's why sone people can't access it

Our groups are talking about that, as well. What difference does it make, Pip??

I might do a blog later on, David. Anyway - you can do it yourself! It's only very new gardeners who need help, isn't it??

No, some of us, obviously not an expert like me ahem, never really went in for containers and besides when you don't garden for some years it's very easy to lose confidence. So come on Spritz:-))

Oooohhh.....I only wrote a blog yesterday! I'll do one errr....soon. ;-)

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