I had one left at my house and have filled in with flowers,but im not sure whether I would've bought one or not,but it is useful and looks good in the winter!
At my sisters house (that she is selling now) there is a huge double one(again left there) that I have filled with plants too, but me and husband nearly broke our backs moving it a couple of feet!so even tho id like to sell it, ive a feeling no one would be able to be able to put it in the back of a car!
such a divide of opinions! I think they're lovely, and as I said, i'd like plenty of unusual containers for my garden, is it fairygirl who has tin baths?? A chap grows his carrots i baths at the allotment
It's not a large one, and we could collect it in the car as it's only around the corner
I love the old Belfast sinks, I have a nice big one in the kitchen, but I do like a proper sink mind. In our old house we had one in the garden, not for plants, but as a little wildlife pond. Sweetpea, maybe decide what you would really pay for it, and then use figure as your limit and then let e-bay do the automatic bidding thingy on your behalf. Especially if the sellers are only round the corner, seems like its providence that it should be yours.
I found an old belfast sink at the bottom of the garden in a house I owned in Yorkshire years ago. I think they're lovely for planting up - each to their own. When I moved to Scotland, I insisted that the sink was taken into storage, the removal guy looked at me as if to say no chance, but I just said yes chance ! It's subsequently been moved from Yorkshire, to a cottage in Scotland, moved again by me to another house in Scotland, and moved again to my final resting place 10 miles down the road ! I've just replanted it last night as it happens ! taken out lilys that never performed, and planted a couple of smaller plants, and a layer of fine shingle. Much nicer looking. I also work at a hospital, and during renovations, an old belfast sink had been thrown out, it has a high back to it. I asked if I could have it "for my garden to plant up", but when I re-do my kitchen, it's going in there instead I much prefer the traditional look, to the stainless steel one that I have now, which incidently is stained !!!!!
I also found, whilst driving through the Scottish countryside, a large double belfast sink which was just dumped on the corner of a farm yard. I went back a week or two later coz I couldn't stop thinking about it, and though it's a bit bashed and bruised wanted it. The guy let me have it for free, and it took us both a lot of shoving to get it into the back of my car, yes, a double belfast sink that weighed an absolute tonne, in the back of a Volvo, with 2 German Shepherds !!! When I got home I had to manoeuvre it out of the car, sliding it on a couple of old interior doors. A lot of effort, but worth it ! It's planted with a grapevine on one side, and a creeping succulent on the other, and a climber and sweetpeas . This double sink measures around 4ft long, and nearly 2 ft high - so you can imagine the weight in my car !
I have an old tin bath. I painted it glossy black and used it for chilling beers in packs of ice but haven't needed it fo rthat in years. It may very well become a planter when I have time to decorate it and punch some holes in the bottom. I also found some old galvanised laundry tubs in a street sale. One has been painted red and gold and stencilled with Xmassy stuff for the Xmas tree and the other is still waiting to be painted to hold pots of plants............
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Is a butler sink the same? This photo taken a couple of years ago - now is completely covered in echeverias, euphorbia myrsinites (at the back) and various forms of houseleek. I don't water it and have gravel surrounding all the plants.
It stands on four coffee jar lids to keep it off the ground and I absolutely love it. Didn't buy it, inherited it along with a smaller apothecary sink from my Auntie Lily. I take the echeverias into the unheated greenhouse in the winter, but the rest stay put.
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I had one left at my house and have filled in with flowers,but im not sure whether I would've bought one or not,but it is useful and looks good in the winter!
At my sisters house (that she is selling now) there is a huge double one(again left there) that I have filled with plants too, but me and husband nearly broke our backs moving it a couple of feet!so even tho id like to sell it, ive a feeling no one would be able to be able to put it in the back of a car!
such a divide of opinions! I think they're lovely, and as I said, i'd like plenty of unusual containers for my garden, is it fairygirl who has tin baths?? A chap grows his carrots i baths at the allotment
It's not a large one, and we could collect it in the car as it's only around the corner
I love the old Belfast sinks, I have a nice big one in the kitchen, but I do like a proper sink mind. In our old house we had one in the garden, not for plants, but as a little wildlife pond.
Sweetpea, maybe decide what you would really pay for it, and then use figure as your limit and then let e-bay do the automatic bidding thingy on your behalf. Especially if the sellers are only round the corner, seems like its providence that it should be yours.
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I found an old belfast sink at the bottom of the garden in a house I owned in Yorkshire years ago. I think they're lovely for planting up - each to their own. When I moved to Scotland, I insisted that the sink was taken into storage, the removal guy looked at me as if to say no chance, but I just said yes chance ! It's subsequently been moved from Yorkshire, to a cottage in Scotland, moved again by me to another house in Scotland, and moved again to my final resting place 10 miles down the road ! I've just replanted it last night as it happens ! taken out lilys that never performed, and planted a couple of smaller plants, and a layer of fine shingle. Much nicer looking. I also work at a hospital, and during renovations, an old belfast sink had been thrown out, it has a high back to it. I asked if I could have it "for my garden to plant up", but when I re-do my kitchen, it's going in there instead
I much prefer the traditional look, to the stainless steel one that I have now, which incidently is stained !!!!!
I also found, whilst driving through the Scottish countryside, a large double belfast sink which was just dumped on the corner of a farm yard. I went back a week or two later coz I couldn't stop thinking about it, and though it's a bit bashed and bruised wanted it. The guy let me have it for free, and it took us both a lot of shoving to get it into the back of my car, yes, a double belfast sink that weighed an absolute tonne, in the back of a Volvo, with 2 German Shepherds !!! When I got home I had to manoeuvre it out of the car, sliding it on a couple of old interior doors. A lot of effort, but worth it ! It's planted with a grapevine on one side, and a creeping succulent on the other, and a climber and sweetpeas
. This double sink measures around 4ft long, and nearly 2 ft high - so you can imagine the weight in my car !
They sound magnificent Kezza, do you have any photos?
Wow Kezza, does sound lovely.....pics to perv please
sweepea, think a few people have old tin baths......but OL has just got one of those too......not fair.......he he he.
I have an old tin bath. I painted it glossy black and used it for chilling beers in packs of ice but haven't needed it fo rthat in years. It may very well become a planter when I have time to decorate it and punch some holes in the bottom. I also found some old galvanised laundry tubs in a street sale. One has been painted red and gold and stencilled with Xmassy stuff for the Xmas tree and the other is still waiting to be painted to hold pots of plants............
Is a butler sink the same? This photo taken a couple of years ago - now is completely covered in echeverias, euphorbia myrsinites (at the back) and various forms of houseleek. I don't water it and have gravel surrounding all the plants.
It stands on four coffee jar lids to keep it off the ground and I absolutely love it. Didn't buy it, inherited it along with a smaller apothecary sink from my Auntie Lily. I take the echeverias into the unheated greenhouse in the winter, but the rest stay put.
completely covered
Yes gardening granny, depends where you are I think as to what they call them.
Yours looks lovely.
I'll try and take some pics, no promises though, as I tried to upload some pics the other day of a plant I want ID'ing, and they wouldn't upload