Ingenuity paid off...
When I attended the fiesta in our village about a week ago, I passed-by this patio full of beautiful flowers. I was curious why so plenty of visitors were there to take pictures. I always passed-by this area but I never went up because I thought it was a private front yard of the people living in the two apartment blocks.
I was surprised to see the ingenuity of the people living in the blocks, they have created masterpieces out of simple materials... old tires, pots, tubes, painted tin cans, pots hangers.
Just have a look at their creations, they have lovely imaginations on how things are arranged. Aren´t these creations wonderful!?
And what about this one, it´s a windmill made from two clay pots including a water well with a girl sitting on a bench.... !
Then I have observed how this tires were painted red and orange and the tires have been used a sort of a pot. The one in the middle is a plastic pipe, must have been a scrap and also painted on the color of the pot holders with the pots in the color of the tires so that the whole looks like a custom made planter.
Here is another tube attached to the wall that holds tin cans artistically painted. I think the top and the bottom is decorated with a candle holder that holds the potted plants.
This is also one creation I love, made of two old tires painted red and blue, then a piece of round wood was cut that serves as a table with a pot holder in the middle. also for either flower arrangement or in this case, a potted Poinsettia. Anyone can sit on the white bench when tired.
The other end of the bench is also created equally with red painted tires and the table has a clay pot artistically painted. The ceramic pot design must have been bought at a ceramic shop.
Flower pots hanging on the walls were painted nicely and visitors can see how these plants were lovingly taken cared of.
In the so many years of living in Spain, I have seen wonderful wall gardens with colorful pots, usually in blue and mostly planted with geraniums....
Spanish Wall in my former (Viennese) garden...
I liked what I saw everywhere in the villages I visited in Spain and I always wanted to have those potted plants too on my Viennese wall. So I brought along the metal braces all the ways from Spain and painted the pots green to give them a uniform look and planted them with red geraniums. So this had been my Spanish wall until 2020. We moved to an apartment with balcony coz we were tired of tending the garden...but perhaps I will do this again in the next planting season and continue with my container gardening.
I hope you got some creative ideas from this post. Hope to see you next time...see you around!
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