When I was speaking at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show in Seattle I passed by the Cowdawg Creations booth and saw their Water Lily rain chains. It was love at first sight and I knew immediately what I would do with one. My house isn’t suited for using a rain chain instead of a gutter and downspout, but these copper pieces had great ornamental and planting potential, so I stepped into Lindsay’s booth and bought one. Fortunately, I was able to have it shipped to Cape Cod after the show.
Here’s what I did with it, and an idea for how you can make a rain chain planter too.

I have to say that the Cowdawg Creations rain chains are lovely even when empty.

I wanted to plant mine with assorted succulents, however, so I added some potting soil and used plants with different colors and textures of foliage. The fun thing is watching the water drip down from cup to cup when I begin watering from the top!

The Lemon Coral Sedum that the folks at Proven Winners kindly sent me is perfect in two of the cups!

I hung this on one side of my front porch and let the green of the copper determine the color scheme for the pots on the porch this year.