Tag Archive: recycling
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- Picture via 1001 Gardens
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I know you like seeing great ideas for recycling pallets into useful (and beautiful), garden and outdoor objects. So, here are a few more- hope you like them!
Beautiful terrace planters
Garden shed cum woodstore
Fence from pallets
Bench
More benches
Another fence cum planter
A colourful gate
A bee hive
A plant stand- reminiscent of my own ‘plant theatre’ made recently…
…and finally- an Igloo!!
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Most examples from the wonderful site 1001 pallets
Planting in cylinders. Perhaps using lengths of painted, plastic drain pipes (with cut outs), wire and clips? Via the Gardening Club
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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?
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It’s been a while since I put together a few examples of recycling innovation in the garden using pallets and other things- there seem to be fewer ‘new ideas’ around these days. Perhaps there are just so many things you can do with a pallet (and other stuff)?! Anyway here is a set of four great ideas that have caught my eye in the last few months.
Crate Garden!
Pallet play house
Pallet wall planter
Pallet hut/shed/playhouse
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