These easy to make, naturally porous hypertufa concrete pots are a great addition to any garden. We used recycled containers for our molds but you can use almost anything to create unusual planters or yard art.
This is a guide about hypertufa craft projects. This simple mixture of Portland cement with substances like perlite and peat moss makes porous artificial stone pots, planters, or garden art in any shape or size you can imagine.
This is a guide about making shoe planters. Old shoes make interesting planters for your yard and garden.
If you have extra cinder blocks around the house fill them with soil and put your plants in them. It looks pretty nice. I saw this the other day; a lady even had berry plants in them.
Tipsy Flower Pots (The Path Garden)
I had been wanting to make on of these planters for The Path Garden for a couple of years. Just hadn't gotten around to it. The 99 Cent store had the clay pots so I got 5 and asked DH to go get the rebar for it.
This is a guide about tipsy flower pots. Create interesting vertical planting space by making your own tipsy flower pots.
Saving Space Growing Strawberries in a Greenhouse
I put together some hanging strawberry planters for the greenhouse recycled out of empty milk cartons and then hung up in the greenhouse roof using cropped bolts, recycled wire, bamboo cane and some curtain poles.
To make a tipsy flower pot stand, get at least 76 inches of rebar and pound 1 foot of it into ground. Place a 12 inch pot over/down rebar through the pot drain hole and fill with dirt so that your second pot will rest on top of dirt.
Turning an Old Car Into a Planter
This is a guide about turning an old car into a planter. Creating a planter from an old car will certainly make for a unique landscaping addition.
This is a guide about creative garden trellis ideas. A unique trellis can become a focal point in your garden. It is a great way to reuse items you already have around the house or a good search mission for your next trip to a garage sale or antique store.
Creative Planters for Garden Focal Points
Interesting focal points in your garden don't always have to include terra cotta pots. See what you have around the house that would make a creative planter.
I'm using the back portion of a broken "curb alert" chair as a trellis. My new clematis is pretty happy with it. Sink the side pieces into the soft soil, or like this, just lean it against a tree.
I have a business with a sunny front and a low window. I want to plant flowers outside below the window. It is about 8 feet in length and 2 feet high. I need some unusual ideas for planters. Preferably some things that are long.
Recycled Shoe Hen and Chick Planter
Reuse an old leather shoe as a planter for hen and chicks or other small succulents. This is a great gift idea.
This is a guide about creative planter ideas. Planters come in all shapes and sizes. Every gardener knows that finding creative things to put plants in, adds interest to their yard.
Mini Greenhouses Made From Water Jugs
I use large, clear, round plastic water jugs from grocery store as greenhouses. I cut them with a coping saw and leave a small attached area. I put the seeds inside in proper soil and close the top.
This interesting fish planter adds nice appeal to our open carport. I love to fill it with emerging colorful plants and running greenery! It's fun using annuals so that the look changes a couple times a year!
Garden: Movable Garden (Lewiston, NY)
This is our front door moveable garden, in my garden.
My yard is mostly shade with the gravel driveway being the sunniest spot on the property. I refused to give up vegetable gardening when we bought the place, so I gathered up my galvanized tub collection.
Use A Child's Swimming Pool For A Patio Garden
We do not have a place in our backyard to plant a "regular" garden, but we did have room on our patio deck to do something. I came up with an idea for a small garden using a child's plastic swimming pool.
This is the other worn out boot from our great granddaughter. The birdfeeder mate was sent in earlier. I love it that she is already recycling her things.
Garden: Cowgirl Boot as Birdfeeder
I guess great granddaughter has picked up on my passion for recycled items. She sent her worn out boots (via grandma) for us to use.
Mounting and Planting Clay Pot Hanging Planters
I have 3 different size pots to use here. I'm wanting to fill these with potting soil and flowers and mount on a telephone pole by our curb. Does anyone have any ides how to do this and what flowers I should use? Thanks.
Choosing Long Blooming Flowers for Hanging Baskets
I have 2 patio boxes for planting in. I am using trailing ivy, baby's breath and poppies right now, but I need to know what flowers bloom all summer so I will have blooms all summer. The hanging boxes get the morning and noon sun.
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This is a tea pot I bought at a thrift store. I planted some grass seed in it and during a summer tea party my 3 year old granddaughter painted some rocks for me. In the background is a lattice I built from sticks to grow my snow peas, and some wild flowers to add colour.
You can build your frame any size you like but remember, you are going to have to weed some so you need to be able to reach across it. Mine was 2 feet by 6 feet. Please read through all the directions before you start.
Garden: Filling Containers Frugally
Like so many other gardeners, I lust after the magazine cover decks and porches pictured overflowing with color. But I've also priced out some of those containers at over $40 each, just to buy the annuals needed to fill them. And that can be ONE container.
Craft Project: Bloomers Plant Hanger
This is a recycling craft using children's pants as a holder for potted
