Unusual (recycled) flower / plant containers?
Question:My 6 year old daughter wants to enter a competition at school for the most unusual flower / plant container. It can be any plant, any flower, any container but it must be recycled. Does anyone have any good ideas?
Answers:
the most unusual plant container i have seen is an old toilet bowl. someone used an old toilet bowl and planted it with water plants (i.e. water lily and reeds )
Milk cartons make good containers for plants. You can use a saw or serrated knife to cut them to size. I assume the plant does not have to be recycled.
You can take a paper back from the grocery store and wrap it around and tape it to a waxed paper milk carton and she can draw on it.
She can use a market pen and decorate the bottom half of a plastic milk container.
If you really want to get extra credit, most plants will get damaged without drainage. Make a quarter size hole in the bottom of the container.
A matching paper plate, preferably used and cleaned can be set under your now decorated recycled container including a plant.
old boots work well and if painted bright colours can look very jazzy.
I made a set of planters from old cowboy boots and cowboy hat (painted with polyurethane) and planted them with different cacti.
How about an old boot that maybe ready to pitch out. Instead, use it for a flower planter. I saw one once in a magazine considered as recycled. It was most definitely unusual and different, but also neat too.
How about an old car tyre painted white. Fill it with soil and plant lots of mint in it. The original hole with mint in it!
My home have used the container of Oil,and I think the bottle of Wine is ok too.
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