An old utility pole makes for an interesting and delightful planter that is sure to be the talk of the neighborhood — especially if you can find one with the hand holds.
To make one, first find a utility pole. This is much more difficult than it sounds. While utility poles are quite common — one may be as close as your sidewalk — cutting one down is very illegal and doing so could result in arrest, fines, restitution, and possibly even a jail sentence.
That’s assuming you survive the electric shock.
A good way to acquire one is wait for a major storm and have it fall on your classic car. 
Then wait for the emergency crew to turn off the power to it, cut it up and leave it as they have no room for it on their truck. Pick an appropriate sized piece, dig a hole a foot or so deep, put the pole in it, hang some begonias on the hand holds and voila you’re the envy of the community.
I can hardly wait for the next utility pole knocking down storm and then I will compete with an English Country Garden
You ask., how many kinds of sweet flowers grow
In an English country garden?
We’ll tell you now of some that we know
Those we miss you’ll surely pardon
Daffodils, heart’s ease and flox
Meadowsweet and lady smocks
Gentian, lupine and tall hollihocks
Roses, foxgloves, snowdrops, blue forget-me-nots
In an English country garden.
I can hardly wait. Hurry up storm.
We used to sing that song many years ago when I was a pupil in Roebling (NJ) elementary School. It was one of my favorites. Do you have rest of it?
Sure> It was one of my favorites in grammar school too> Here’s the rest of it:
How many insects come here and go
In an English country garden?
We’ll tell you now of some that we know
Those we miss you’ll surely pardon
Fireflies, moths, gnats and bees
Spiders climbing in the trees
Butterflies drift in the gentle breeze
There are snakes, ants that sting
And other creeping things
In an English country garden
How many songbirds fly to and fro
In an English country garden?
We’ll tell you now of some that we know
Those we miss you’ll surely pardon
Bobolink, cuckoo and quail
Tanager and cardinal
Bluebird, lark, thrush and nightingale
There is joy in the spring
When the birds begin to sing
In an English country garden
How many kinds of sweet flowers grow
In an English country garden?
We’ll tell you now of some that we know
Those we miss you’ll surely pardon
Daffodils, heart’s ease and flox
Meadowsweet and lady smocks
Gentain, lupine and tall hollihocks
Roses, foxgloves, snowdrops, blue forget-me-nots
In an English country garden
I think American kids got a better bringing up in the old days.
Los PECO hombres son muy mal.
La noche que Monte Carlo se murio.
Si, los PECO hombres aplastado nuestro principal de alcantarillado.
La noche que Monte Carlo se murio muy triste.
Si, Capitaan Seadog. But can you recite the words to the English Country Garden in Spanish?