Gardening: Having fun with creative planters

When I was growing up in Britain in the 1960s, serious gardeners considered plastic gnomes and similar garden ornaments completely unacceptable. Most planters were made of stone or wood.
My mother used an old stone sink in a sunny spot to grow early bulbs, followed by a bed of thyme. There was also a large stone cider press — Mother planted bulbs and other perennials in the shallow trough that ran around its base.
Gardening in Canada, with three children who loved plastic chickens, gnomes,