Well nearly there just need help with the last tyre to make into a planter this one seems not to want to go.
So if anyone lives in Southampton and wants to help out on Sunday 30th June at Sholing Valley Study Centre in Station Road at 12 pm ish then please join us
Hi GardenGirl.. I am currently renovating the outdoor space in a local nursery school and LOVE the idea of colourful tyres to plant in. Please can you let me know how you managed to paint your tyres as I am lost for how to do this!
I love your ideas Gardengirl. I have some tyres in my wildlife garden because common lizards like to sit on them, never thought about planting in them as they are still on the wheels. We have literally dozens of spare and worn tyres about as my son did Junior Rally Driving a few years back - I'm claiming them as planters now.
Best left the right way round in the plain black for lizards so they warm up in the sun.
I've got some native plants like vetches to grow this year, so I'll do a native planted tyre for the wildlife garden and post it up. Hope the lizards appreciate the work.
That is great GemmaJF like the lizard in your pic, sure the lizard will like the plants for a bit of shade but warmth in the summer, we left the ones up the station black and the plants attract lots of ladybirds
Re done two of them a few weeks ago with plants some daffodil bulbs and violas and bluebells
Just mix topsoil with compost or use your own soil that helps so they do not dry out too much in summer with the heat if it gets that warm this year
Thanks for the tips . It should work very well for the lizards, with the summer growth providing shade but it being nice and open in the spring and autumn when they like to bask for ages. Our tyres attract ladybirds too, they hibernate together in our log piles. I always know when the ladybirds have left the logs and are on the tyres the lizards will be out any day soon.
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A few plants have been added will post more when the flowers have grown a bit bigger
Hey just adding a few more pictures as a few plants in flower some primroses
Well nearly there just need help with the last tyre to make into a planter this one seems not to want to go.
So if anyone lives in Southampton and wants to help out on Sunday 30th June at Sholing Valley Study Centre in Station Road at 12 pm ish then please join us
Hi GardenGirl.. I am currently renovating the outdoor space in a local nursery school and LOVE the idea of colourful tyres to plant in. Please can you let me know how you managed to paint your tyres as I am lost for how to do this!
Thanks!
Hello ro3 - I have not painted the tyre planters, you can use masonry paint to paint them and a brush
here is an update of the tyre planters done
this one was done on Saturday planted up with daff and tulips and crocus
these ones were just weeded and covered with more dirt
I used to make these planters years ago. The best ones are made by leaving the tyre on the wheel with the bead unbroken.
First cut around the tire about 1" from the rim on the outer face.
Turn tyre inside out, I used my work mate to hold the wheel and two pairs of mole grips to get started.
The steel wheel is an ideal base and broken crocks stop the compost leaking out.
I found that several coats of textured masonry paint totally disguised the fact that a tyre had been used, I used magnolia but I am getting on a bit
Hello still not painted them yet still thinking of it, the teasels are so tall now - they are great planters
I love your ideas Gardengirl. I have some tyres in my wildlife garden because common lizards like to sit on them, never thought about planting in them as they are still on the wheels. We have literally dozens of spare and worn tyres about as my son did Junior Rally Driving a few years back - I'm claiming them as planters now.
Best left the right way round in the plain black for lizards so they warm up in the sun.
I've got some native plants like vetches to grow this year, so I'll do a native planted tyre for the wildlife garden and post it up. Hope the lizards appreciate the work.
That is great GemmaJF like the lizard in your pic, sure the lizard will like the plants for a bit of shade but warmth in the summer, we left the ones up the station black and the plants attract lots of ladybirds
Re done two of them a few weeks ago with plants some daffodil bulbs and violas and bluebells
Just mix topsoil with compost or use your own soil that helps so they do not dry out too much in summer with the heat if it gets that warm this year
Thanks for the tips
. It should work very well for the lizards, with the summer growth providing shade but it being nice and open in the spring and autumn when they like to bask for ages. Our tyres attract ladybirds too, they hibernate together in our log piles. I always know when the ladybirds have left the logs and are on the tyres the lizards will be out any day soon.