Vintage flower pots and garden shelf

I didn't get around to planting a garden this year. After the massive disappointments of the previous few years, I just decided it wasn't worth the effort or the money just so that I can produce yet another Epic Gardening Fail. Some may call me defeatist, I call myself a realist. I've finally realized that my tiny yard just doesn't have a good, easy place to have a garden--and I need it to be easy. I just don't have the patience to deal with keeping anything else alive.

I do have one little spot of green growing things but mostly it's just an excuse to display more of my vintage and thrifted treasures.

I bought this darling little yellow wire flower pot rack last summer from a vintage store that was going out of business. I already had a few pots, but since last year have found enough pots to fill it up. The pots are from various sources. Here's a map to show what they are and where I found them:

I love all of the bright colors! They match well with the welcome mat The Mister picked out a few years ago. I will fully admit that it took me until about two weeks ago to actually buy plants to put in the pots! At least the empty pots still looked cute on my doorstep.

We've had terrible rainstorms over the past week and about two days after I took this photo, we had a thunderstorm so powerful that the rain water actually forced half of the dirt out of the pots! It was accompanied by hail that beat the flowers all to heck, so all that was left was a bunch of stems in half-empty pots. I've refilled the dirt and hopefully the blooms will return!