Do u have an old umbrella handy you could stick above the plants to protect this? My neighbor does that for her peonies before rain and over her shade plants that are in too much sun on scorching days.
I feel like the plants you selected for your urn are super tough, so they should be fine if you can't protect them.
I'm not sure what your rain situation has been like in Ohio, but here in pgh it's been weird. We had 2 weeks of rain everyday (ruined my first rose flush) and now they call for rain but we haven't had any at all! I've been up with the hose every morning, I'd love just one overnight rainfall.
Lets see a pic of your urn!

I was going to wait until the plants filled out a bit, but the light was very nice this morning, so I took these pics.
Yes, I thought about an umbrella! or a small piece of tarp suspended above the urn; but like you say the plants should be tough enough. Thanks. As I mentioned before, I'm not a good container gardener so I usually plant geraniums in pots around the garden. They do the best for me. The ones I planted into this urn may get a little too big, but that's how a person learns.

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oooh, that is so pretty! I had to laugh reading the posts because I thought of an umbrella when I first read this last night. I didn't suggest it becasue I was afraid you would think I was just a crazy old woman with an idea like that! Phew...nice to know that I am not so crazy afterall-old, yes, getting there, but not crazy...yet-lol.

That's a gorgeous pot and the plants you chose are great! Don't tell anyone you "are not a good container gardener" as it's not apparent! :-D

The danger with thunderstorms and the possible driving rain is that the soil may wash out a bit and the plants be bent or broken or blown away even. However, they seem to be in a protected area so will likely be OK.

I planted a couple of pots yesterday and my problem is 'seeing' what they will look like when grown. I might be redoing if they grow differently from 'as advertised'.

I bought the urn/pot at Lowes for $35. Every year I've wanted to place one in that spot, but never found any that I liked. Even then, I had a hard time choosing between two styles available in the same color. Originally wanted a wider, more shallow one; but I think this gives me the height I need in this corner.

I still have my two large Fredericksburg Pottery pots to fill with geraniums which I sit in the courtyard, and then two smaller urns that I usually place on the sunken garden's floor. But I think that will make it too busy there now, so I'm going to put them on other walls in another spot in the garden. I bought a variety of annuals for them this time instead of the coleus I usually plant.

Of course I have to run and buy more potting soil, that always happens when I get into it, I run out of soil. One thing I have learned is to buy good potting soil. For the last several yeas, I've purchased the type that has the moisture crystals(?) and it has worked very well for geraniums. Not sure if it will keep the annuals too damp,tho.

Reading this I'm laughing to myself, umbrella was the first thing that came to my mind too. I'm growing a variety of pole beans that is very iffy if it will grow here, even when we have a decent spring which we're not. I've made a bean pole out of conduit so I can put a clear umbrella in the top and fashioned a skirt out of clear shower curtains to slip over this if needed. Anything to lengthen the season.
Cyn you think you're crazy, you'd have to go some to catch up to me LOL.

Schoolhouse, I love your new urn and the way you've planted it, it looks like it was made for that spot, only $35 WOWZERS!!!

Annette

That whole area is gorgeous!

I had a heavy 3 foot tall ceramic urn with sides over 1/2 inch thick. I could only move it by tilting it and rolling it little by little. It was empty and setting in a little nook outside my home. On a cloudless day a freakish wind turned it over and it broke. I think it must have been what we refer to as a "whirlwind" or "dirt devil."

When I heard the crash I thought a car had hit my house.
The weather is doing strange things this year. That is such a minor loss compared to what it has done elsewhere.

Came through the overnight storms just fine, thank goodness. soxxxx - my fear isn't really the wind knocking over the pot, I can see the stone wall it's sitting losing a major load-bearing stone, pot tumbles into sunken garden, on the way down hits the bench first, then continues to smash to smithereens on the garden floor. :) Here are pics of three other urns I planted yesterday.

This one DID meet with an unfortunate accident several years ago, but I loved it so much I couldn't toss it. It's terracotta. It comes apart in three or more pieces if you lift it the wrong way. I merely fit it back together like a jig saw puzzle and carefully plant and move it about. Now who's crazy?
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The next photos are urns I normally sit on the sunken garden floor, but decided to put them on the walls this year. They are also terracotta but have a wonderful aged appearance and when in the shady moist atmosphere of the sunken garden, develop a nice greenish color and sometimes moss! They'll lose that now by sitting in bright sun most of the day.

I planted blue lobelia, peach verbena and vanilla million bells petunia. I don't have the best of luck with verbena, but the color was so pretty I couldn't resist.
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