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Unusual Planters
Villaverde123
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I have an old bike and use the basket. A robin is using the underside of the saddle for a nest. Also a redundant BBQ and a mop bucket with a few 'leeks'.
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I love the use of the BBQ, don't like the bike though,
i am not very imaginative when it comes to containers, have used old buckets for tomatoes though, nice and deep.
found a couple of old coal scuttles in a junk yard recently. I have cleaned them, given them a coat of paint and i'm planning on planting them up for the garden soon
I have got an old granite water trough buried in the depths of the garden, keep saying I want to plant an alpine bed in it, it's too heavy for me to get out!
Pink Lily, dont know what colour you have painted them, they would look great with "barge art" We had old sinks in previous gardens, but as you say Lyn, when you move they are just too heavy. Had a old rusty tin luggage trunk in our last garden, blasted well left it behind!
Hi Nanny Beach, so far they just have a coat of black on them. Had to google Barge Art, some great ideas for decorating them, thank you!
I love that BBQ!! Recently our big green food caddy provided by the council had its lid break. So I drilled some holes in the bottom and it now has an echinacea growing in it
I don't know what they're called, but the cast iron funnel type thing you get at the top of a vertical drainpipe makes a great planter to hang on a wall. We had them in our old house but I forgot them when we moved.
Just found this thread by accident so I thought I'd bump it up and see if anyone has any more to add. There was a lampshade the other day which turned out to be "marmite"....some likers, some not so much. Each to their own I say.
Anyone got any other ideas?
It's pouring here so PP's in the house.
I wanted a big pot when I was short of funds so I used an old dustbin and painted it to look like stone, mottled beige to match the walls of my house.
I had a few of those wee metal lantern style tea light candle holders that I couldn't use as they got red-hot when you put a candle in them, so I knocked the glass out and put some soil and succulents inside and hung them up. The Succulent (think its called Jelly Bean - not sure of the proper name) is all trailing from them now and I think they look lovely