Ben, the oppostite can happen. A forum can develop habits where everyone starts piling in with insults or sourness.
I think it's important to answer the OP's question and not offer comment on other's taste in plants or gardens, unless asked for. Just as you wouldn't comment on a person's hair or choice in shoes, why tell them you hate their climber or watering can? We shouldn't hide behind anonymity.
I think its fine to offer an alternative viewpoint, as long as you are pleasant and polite when you do so, and give lucid and coherent reasons for your own views rather than just criticise other people’s choices.
It sometimes opens your own eyes when you analyse the reasons for your own choices. 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Personally I want people to say what they like and don’t like. Helps me make up my mind. And in the end, everyone is free to decide for themselves. And in this case I totally agree with @Papi Jo People have different tastes. There’s never any need to be upset by someone else not liking the same things as you.
When we moved here, we took out a hammered copper chimney hood (1960-1970's vintage) which I then turned upside down so the narrow bit was at the top, tied it to the hedge at the end of a long path and grew a cascading orange begonia in the top. It was much admired at a subsequent NGS open day.
I've got a couple of zinc water tank planters, not particularly unusual I suppose. Currently the big one (4x3x3) has a Prunus serrula in it and the other has a honey spurge.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
I have got old car parts,a large rusty suspension spring as a plant support and hubby has made flowers from various cogs as plant supports,he broke my Rennie Mackintosh mirror,has set pieces in driftwood as supports
One of many 'cannibalised' household salvage items is the big blue Parozone-type plastic bottles. Cut in half, the top, with its handle, makes an ideal funnel for liquid or granular items, and the bottom half makes a good beaker/paint pot or a cap for a fence post to reduce rain ingress. Other cleaning fluid bottles, especially with handles, can have their necks and one shoulder removed (opposite the handle) to provide a useful scoop for bird food. Being narrow, they're ideal for tipping seed/peanuts etc. into feeders and, strangely, a full one will often correspond with a feeder's capacity.
Chimney pots, a rhubarb forcer, milk churns, a watering can, a kettle, a water barrow and a walls ice cream box 😀. Some picked up at reclamation yards, some found in the undergrowth of this garden when we moved in ....
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It sometimes opens your own eyes when you analyse the reasons for your own choices. 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
https://www.recyclart.org/upcycled-planters-unusual-objects/
Hoping more members will post other unusual items they’ve used
Edit - I like the picture frame one and can see they’ve used chicken wire. Won’t the soil just fall out as soon as you turn it upright? 🤔