A few weeks ago I posted a brief article about how I’d converted an old wooden bicycle rack (saved from the bonfire, as it was being disposed of by the local Primary School) into a sort of vertical plant stand cum ‘Plant Theatre’.
- The old Bike Rack before it’s makeover
I decided that the first display would be of a range of Pelargoniums. Having bought a number of small terracotta pots, and used a mix of old and new plants, I set it up and nurtured my new ‘creation’. Well here’s how it’s looking at the end of June – most plants are now in flower and providing an eyecatching, vertical splash of colour in the courtyard here at Old School Garden. What do you think?
- The finished ‘Theatre’
I must now start thinking about what to do for a spring display, next year. I’ll try to over winter the pelargoniums and use them again in the summer. For spring, perhaps I’ll tryt o get hold of a range of that plant that typifies ‘Plant Theatres’, the Primula auricula.
- A Primula auricula- something for the ‘Theatre’ in Spring 2015?
Old School Garden 