Today we’re in Buffalo, New York, visiting with Joe Hopkins.
We’ve visited with Joe before (Color-Blind Plant Combinations). He gardens on a small, urban lot and is partially color blind, but he turns those potential difficulties into strengths with fearless color combinations and using countless pots to transform a paved driveway into more garden space. In addition to over a hundred pots filled with plants, he also gets creative with nontraditional containers, including twelve different foam wig forms turned into planters!
It’s hard to believe all this space is actually a driveway! Massing pots together with some chairs, tables, and even a lamp transforms this blank space into a garden.
There are no flowers in sight among this cluster of pots—only incredible color from a wide array of foliage.
This space is a full-on living room outside, with plants threatening to swallow up all the furniture, making it a lush jungle experience.
A bit of the blacktop driveway is exposed—before it vanishes under a wall of plants in pots.
Buffalo gardens are famous for their cheerful, creative takes on garden design. This is surely a prime example, with foam wig forms transformed into planters.
Choosing a succulent plant for a nontraditional container like this works well, because the small amount of soil will dry out quickly.
A little paint, some over-the-top sunglasses, and a mass of sedum for hair
An explosion of blue ornamental grass makes a hairstyle for this yellow wig head.
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Comments
I love the beauty & creativity you have going on in your garden!
The way you made the wig heads into planters, and how unique each one looks delights me!
All your plants in containers over asphalt- wow- what an accomplishment- and they are all thriving!
Such a happy and wildly intense garden, probably just like you!
It's wonderful!
Oh Joe, your driveway gardens are outrageously fun and crazy lush! I'm guessing that your idea of using wig forms as succulent planters will be copied, just sayin'... I'm still smiling!!! I love it all, every single detail. Thanks for brightening my day.
You absolutely cannot be sad with a garden like this. It's so colorful and whimsical. Thank you for sharing and I am still smiling.
So many smiles! Thanks for brightening my day!
Thank you very much for this beautiful article. Love it low cost spray foam insulation
Hello from across the lake in Ontario :)
Love your garden. So colourful. Such variety. I love how you've transformed the wig forms and all the sunglasses.
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