Good day to you out there....Madgardener here, I was wondering about what
would happily live in a rather HUGE concrete planter my son got me a couple
of years ago that drains slowly (it has a huge hole dead center). I just
found out that the bricko blocks we lined the new fountain/pond/garden/BBQ
with holes up (bricko= cinder blocks) are alkaline, so because of that I
think the Litodoro 'Grace Ward' I found at Lowes is happy as clams in their
alky holes of soil. But I was wondering if the cement planter (this puppy is
HUGE, it originally was outside of a restaurant for ornamental planting
potential on the foyer entrance, if I coulda gotten all four, believe me,
despite the weight, I would have g) could be alkaline as well? It's
deffinately a cement product, and as large as it is (it holds three 40 pound
bags of soil and there are happy wild violets in the soil since I removed
the very dead red dogwood. The dogwood had anthracnose. Among other
things. I need to know if there is a ph problem with this thing, and if I
have to, I will plant sedums and such in it and dolly it to a sunny spot.
Any suggestions once we figure out the ph? I hate to waste such a fine and
large planter.
madgardener in a bit of writers block lately