Sizzling wok planters for cactus and succulents

September 25, 2013


Cruising up Burnet Road last week I spotted a new store, Remixologie, with this intriguing, red-hot planter gracing their entry. Naturally I had to stop for a closer look.


It turns out they’re selling these aptly named steel wok planters from 2wards Design Group. The brochure says the wok planters are powder-coated to ensure the paint color “will stand the test of Texas sun” — aka the Death Star. They’re pricey but a fun alternative to the rusty plow disc planters that Big Red Sun popularized years ago. Check ’em out at Remixologie or on the 2wards Design Group website.


While I was at the store, I also admired the diagonal stonework in the tiny agave-and-sago garden by the parking lot. These look like the same stone strips that I used for my sunburst patio around my stock-tank pond. What a great look with small agaves or yuccas (I’d lose the sago though).

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Agaves, Cactus, Containers, Succulents, Xeric plants

One response to “Sizzling wok planters for cactus and succulents”

  1. peter schaar says:
    September 25, 2013 at 10:37 PM

    Pam, you are the best at sniffing out cool places to shop for the garden! I like the planters and the strip with the diagonally laid stone pieces. If you’re wanting to ditch the sagos because of cold damage issues, look at Dioon edule instead. It has gone through many winters in my old Dallas garden, including some brutally cold ones, and in a pot! No damage.

    Well, it’s not the cold damage so much as the fact that it’ll get way too large for this narrow strip, hiding the pretty stonework and obscuring the agave. And I confess that I find agaves to be much sexier than sagos. Dioons are cool, and it’s good to know they can handle cold better. But still I think this strip would be better with smaller, desert-style plants. —Pam