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Affordable planters
iain25
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hi
my wife and I are planting out our back garden, and wanted to keep major plants in big planters. Looking for a contemporary look
The ones we've seen are too small and yet with big prices. Does anyone have good suppliers for affirdable (and good looking planters, probably plastic)?
thanks
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Build one out of timber from a builders yard.
Or for the stone trough look, use two cardboard boxes and a bucket of concrete to make a trough (remembering to use an old bit of pipe to make a drainage hole) then paint the outside with watered down yoghurt. Give it a year or two and it'll look properly old (or crumble to dust, depending how good you are at concrete).
Or use the interlocking clay 'bricks' that use a glue rather than mortar - look up 'porotherm'.
Last edited: 30 August 2016 09:03:19
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
We went to a builders yard and got some sewer / manhole cover squares - about £10 each, extremely heavy - place on the ground, dig soil and add compost inside, open ground for the plants to grow in, they look like big containers, and cannot be stolen - what's not to love? Can be painted with masonry paint.