Why not turn a vintage watering can into a shower fixture?!
Check out photos of other reuse: The Cozy Old Farmhouse
(Spotted on Pinterest here.)
It’s wine o’clock (somewhere) — which means it’s time to share a wine-related repurposing find.
Today, it’s wine bottles turned into planters — a great size for small succulents. Wine + reuse + container gardening = win!
The bottle-pots pictured here are from Bewley’s Rerun Productions.
For earlier posts in Unconsumption’s wine o’clock series, look here.
For the 2012 Canada Blooms Garden Festival, Toronto-based landscape design firm b sq. Design Studio turned 105 standard-sized (48” long x 40” wide x 5” tall) pallets into a garden area featuring planter boxes planted with herbs, a water feature, and a 12-foot-tall playhouse with a “roof deck.”
Recycled wood pallets were chosen as the primary material for this feature garden as they were a commonly available material that everyone recognizes but only as an industrial object. Our challenge was to take this common element and make it into something beautiful and interesting that could be dismantled after the show and then returned into the commercial market once again to function as shipping pallets.
For more new uses for pallets, check out the archive here.
Give your kid’s castoff a new life in the garden. Choose toys that’ll weather well and ones with dirt-friendly containers, like this Tonka metal dump truck.
(via Toy Planter | Turn Salvaged Junk Into Garden Ornaments | This Old House)
This reuse (on wheels!) might be better than the toolbox-turned-planter idea. Anyhow, it’s a fine addition to our container gardening ideas file.
Also check out: 7 More Reused Items to Boost Your Garden
I’ve been looking for a way to store my garden seeds but this is a creative way to store them and reuse :D
(via earth911)
A planter-bench like this — made from reclaimed materials — could be useful in urban yards or for small-space gardening in other places.
The bench is made from salvaged scaffolding planks and the planters are cast concrete with re-claimed aggregates.
(via Ryan Frank)
Another idea for the garden-related repurposing file:
Old metal wheels — look for them at flea markets — wired together to make edging for a planting bed.
(via This Old House)
Now here’s something to add to the mix of garden-related repurposing:
Garden tools made into a gate.
(via BHG)
Old and/or bent bicycle wheels can make great trellises for plants.
(via The Kirksville Permaculture Education Center; spotted on Pinterest here)
If you like this upcycling example, check out other bike-related posts here and garden-related items here.
Kathie from Two Frog Home has a good idea for re-using the lids from canning jars once you’re done using them - turn them into garden markers. Check out her post to see how she did it.
