The lavender topiaries, the ones I anticipated with eagerness each spring in PA, the ones I would stockpile in the back of my van, so I could sell them at Lucketts, have finally made it to Minnesota!  Well, maybe they were here before now, but now is when I finally found them! The only difference is that these are much larger than the ones I bought in PA.  It’s nice that they are so beautiful and big, but I didn’t have pretty containers for gallon-sized pots.  I don’t know about you, but finding planters that I like is a challenge for me.  They are all too modern or too bright or too plastic-y.  It’s rare for me to find exactly what I want.  So, I typically use antique finds, like olive baskets, buckets, crocks, grain measures, ironstone, etc.  I didn’t have something in my stash (that wasn’t already occupied) that