slow planters

i would like to introduce the latest addition to the planter craze, a big 10 1/2 foot long and 10 inches deep monster of a planter, this one was purchased from the bristol wood recycling project for only "a tenner," you can only guess what they stored in it before it was recycled: missiles or pythons or something like that ... basically all of the soil from the beginning of these planters to the white cold frame at the top of the photo was covered in trash when we first got the plot, although we were able to get most of it out, the plastic that was left in the ground disintegrated into thousands of tiny pieces, moral of this story: PLASTIC IS EVIL, so we can't really plant things in this area, and our answer has been planters.

 

here is its profile, m and i are debating on whether to keep the cantilevered  effect at the front, a straight forward question of design over function (design will win!).





and here are some more of our neighbors:

 

three slow worms, which are actually lizards without legs (for those of you who make up our burgeoning US readership, ha!), and they like warm covered spaces, mostly under black plastic ...

 

i had to disturb them before i put down the planters, sorry guys!

(and just a technical note, although slow worms are very slow, they seem to be fast enough to prevent the camera on my cell phone from focusing properly)