And here’s a Slate article on how-to asssemble and tend container plants. I unfortunately don’t have anywhere to put a container, so I won’t be trying this out. Brings nice images to mind though of looking out my window in Istanbul at the planters on the window sill across the pit between apartment buildings. I never saw the owner, but the plants inspired me to bring some shrubs and succulents back from my friend Ercu’s family summer home on one of the Princess islands on the Bosphorus. I filled the sills of both windows with terracotta planters, and tended them religiously. Plants are good for the soul.