My favorite part about these planter boxes is the idea of repurposing instead of throwing away. These products once had a monetary value and took from the earth's resources to produce, so they should be reused instead of discarded. The more you can reuse resources already available to you, the less money you will have to spend. You will save more money to do the things you really want to do, like travel the world. Stop feeding into viscous consumerism. Find value in yourself and your creative spirit as appose to useless consumer goods.
Old Bird House turned into a Flower Bed
Mossy plant covered VW Bug
Antique free standing bathtub turned into a coffee table planter box
Old windows used to build a hanging house flower bed
Log from a dead tree hollowed out for flowers to grow
You can plant herbs or shallow rooting veggies in this. The composing wood will help infuse carbon into the soil.
Toy truck turned cactus garden
Unwanted windows used to build a beautifully dreamy green house
Cupcake tray used to grow starts and plants
Suitcase turned flower bed
People are doing amazing things with pallets. One example: Pallet Gardens
Chair meant not to be sat in. Cactus bed made out of old wood chair
Canoe garden with trellis for vertical gardening
Guitar turned planter box
Piano overgrown with beautiful flowers and plants
Flowers in an antique baby stroller
Lockers being used to house and protect plants instead of products
You can use concrete cinder blocks as planters creating funky geometric landscape architecture
*Pictures from Pinterest
I like the old muffin tin idea. I would plant herbs because they don't need very much rooting room.
ReplyDeleteThose are some coolest ideas! Thank you for the share!
ReplyDeleteGreat and creative ideas. I have been collecting bird cages for three seasons and use them regularly to keep the deer away from my crops, especially when they are very young. I also think it is much prettier than the wire supports sold in garden stores. Some of my bird cages are square. I take off the plastic bottom (I save that to hold my seedling cups so when I water it doesn't leak onto anything important), then I take the top off too. That allows me to use the cage as a support cage. I then use the tops by zip tying them together and make other support. What is really fun, is then when tomatoes start ripening up and are at the bottom of the plant, I can open the bird cage door and pick the fruit. It is really an incredible way to use old bird cages.
ReplyDeleteI have been reading posts regarding this topic about planters and this post is one of the most interesting and informative one I have read. As an employee of Bob Planters for Succulents in New York, I would definitely recommend this idea of yours to our manger. Thank you so much for this!
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