Tag Archive: upcycling


Latest Pallet Projects: Garden Furniture

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20/10/2014

It’s a little while since I posted examples of useful (and attractive) garden or other outside projects created from recycled pallets or other materials. Here’s the first of a few posts by way of an update, courtesy of the Facebook site 1001 Pallets.

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PicPost: Gardening in 3 Dimensions

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05/10/2014

multi level gdn

I love the use of space in this garden. It also looks like something you can create from pallets and other recycled materials and offers a very effective and, I think, beautiful answer to maximising growing space in small gardens.

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Pallet to Bench

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28/09/2014

pallet garden bench

This looks like a simple and strong creation using wooden pallets – and some other timber?

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PicPost: Recyled Phone Box

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18/09/2014

telephone box greenhouse mull

What a lovely idea for using a redundant ‘phone box- greenhouse on the Isle of Mull, Scotland.

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Recycling in the Garden- more projects

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13/06/2014

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

Old School Gardener

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Planting Patterns #18

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23/05/2014

ammunition canister garden via urban gdns

 

Surplus ammunition canisters used imaginatively as a vertical garden

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07/05/2014

Pallet Precautions

Click on the title for a useful article about checking to see if that pallet you’re planning to use, is safe.

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Plant Theatre Project

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22/04/2014

You may recall I mentioned trying to convert an old wooden bicycle rack into a plant theatre. These are traditionally structures where small specimen plants are put on display- usually in old terracotta pots. Auriculas and Pelargoniums are some of the plants often used. Here’s an example of an Auricula Theatre recently shown at an RHS show.

Auricula Ttheatre at an RHS show
Auricula Theatre at an RHS show

To avoid losing the interesting foliage effects (or ‘bloom’) on some varieties of Auricula, its advisable for the plants to have some overhead protection from the rain. Having recently completed an Alpine planter for the Courtyard here at the Old School Garden (which is now looking splendid- I’ll put some pictures in my next ‘Dear Walter’ letter), I thought this would add another interesting feature. Here’s what the bicycle rack looked like before I got to work on it.

The old Bike Rack before it's makeover
The old Bike Rack before it’s makeover

It is a relic of the local School at Cawston and must be a good 50- 60 years old. Having reorganised our sheds and so no longer in need of a rack for our bikes, it seemed a good opportunity to recycle something with local historical links. Having measured up and done a rough design, I bought a few planks of pressure-treated gravel boards from a local timber merchant and set to work; measuring out the spacing of the ‘shelves’ that would sit on the angled frame, cutting the notches in this to receive the shelves and screwing them home. Having some black wood stain left over from the alpine planter I used this to give the whole thing a unifying finish that would tie it into the courtyard. Here’s the final result, before and after painting, with the six shelves awaiting the addition of plants.

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As I have some pelargoniums in pots I think this is what I’ll use the planter for this year, though I’ll need to purchase a few more interesting varieties and source some old 3″ or 4″ pots. Next year I might do a spring display of Primulas (including Auriculas) as well as something for the summer months. I might have to think about an overhead canopy of some sort to protect the Auriculas from rain (maybe some sort of movable ‘pram hood’ that can be pulled over from back to front?)

Once the new planter is planted up I’ll show you how it turns out!

Old School Gardener

 

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Latest Garden Recycling Projects

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03/04/2014

It’s been a while since I gathered together examples of garden and outdoor projects involving the use of recycled or upcycled materials. The previous posts have continued to prove popular. Here’s another set of projects from the beautiful, through the practical to the completely wacky!

Old School Gardener

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Beverage Report

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04/02/2014

An unusual ‘themed threesome’ of garden/outdoor projects – fancy a cuppa something?

Potty greenhouse/shed/garden feature….
Your very own terrarium…
Bird Feeder from a cup and saucer

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