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Home made shelves with bricks.


Home made shelves with bricks.

I have replaced the concrete blocks with red house bricks. Makes it a bit easier on the eye. Majority of the plants here are my wifes succulants.



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This display is very pretty...
well done :o)

10 Jun, 2009

 

That looks so interesting...I love how the plants are raised at different levels :)

10 Jun, 2009

 

What a lovely way to display them Trees

10 Jun, 2009

 

Nice, healthy looking display :)

10 Jun, 2009

 

I love this idea - the pots look great all grouped together.

10 Jun, 2009

 

I will have to think what I can put there in there place during the winter, as they will pretty much all move to the greenhouse then.

11 Jun, 2009

 

Looks wonderful. I was just looking at before the matched brick. :-) Really great look.

13 Jun, 2009

 

How about ornimental cabbages? that would look good through the winter.......and this looks absolutely fantastic Dan....do you fancy a trip to Romford?...lol could really see one of these on my patio lol

17 Jun, 2009

 

This looks great T&T, it reminds me of an Auriculum theatre....maybe you could have those growing there in the Spring.....:o)

26 Jun, 2009

 

It's good to see all terracotta no plastic.

6 Aug, 2009

 

Terracotta do look nicer and are ideal for succulants. But they can be pricey. I do prefer them.

Janey, you cant see it on these pics but I have some cheap slatted shelves to the right of these with auriculas on. In fact I have loads now as I have just repotted some, and one is flowering, I shall take a pic.

6 Aug, 2009

 

I've been looking at ladder allotmemnts ever since I found their website: they seem the ideal way (or at least the best so far) to make multi-level displays.

Tthree sides of my garden are wire mesh fencing, so I only have one side I could use the taller ones on - they only do the three-tier as self-supporting; four- and five-tier have to lean on something.

But your photot has given me more incentive to work out measurements!

I mostly use plastic pots simply because of the weight: I don't have much back/shoulder/arm strength, and pots the size I'd need would be hard work even when empty! but of course insulation becomes a real problem with plastic; I'm still trying to work that one out. All I've come up with so far is to use one pot inside another, with a layer of bubble-wrap between.

http://www.ladderallotments.com/index.html

20 Apr, 2011




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