recycled flower tower

What a good idea Fran it's doing the job brilliantly , Pesky squirrels they've taken all my cobnuts :o(

aww, Amy! hope they don't add injury to insult by digging up your plants to bury the nuts!

The stand isn't exctly wobble-free, which is why I put a 4-litre milk bolttle of water at the base, to help stabilise it. If I do try to make something more of it, I'll have to stablilise it better

They bury the nuts in the lawn Fran and then spend winter/spring digging them up leaving holes everywhere , a few bricks might help to keep it in place if you can find any , I always think of my son when I see Spider plants he grew loads of them in his student room at Uni ..

I've heard that squirrels often dig "fake holes", pretend to bury nuts to fool anything that mgiht be watching, so a lot of the holes they dig are empty.

Spiders are virtually indestructible, but only virtually! I've managed to kill a few. I did have both the common cream-striped and the plain green ones, but only have green now - don't know if the striped ones reverted.

They come indoors in autumn/winter - which means I've got to clear space for them! always seem to have more at the end of the year than I did at the beginning,a nd they're all bigger, of course, and trail even more, so I need to find high paces for them where they won't get in my way and I won't get in theirs too much. Prob is, out of isght is out of mind, and I forget to water them.

I'd thought of putting "concrete boots" on the base of the shoe rack, that should be permanent!

Concrete sounds good, hard work though can you do that Fran mix concrete ? they may well be alright as they are until you take them in it will only be few more weeks !
Our Squirrels bury Walnuts as well I have a nice little tree I dug up and potted on until I decide where it's going to be planted .. a gift from them :o)

I bought a small bag of ready-mis, "just add water and stir" - but I need someone to read the instructions to me so I can put them in Word in large format!

I've wanted to make my own pots and troughs but hypertufa looked too complicated - all that measuring and mixing, not to mention I'd have to work so close there'd be an inhalation hazard.

I bought some date-expired banages on eBay to have a go at plaster-of-paris, sort of mod rock - wondered if that'd work with concrete, too; then i can jsut wrap concrete-soaked lengths around the base to give weight at the bottom.

Once the Spiders come back indoor, there'll be no rush, but with all my recent bulbs I might try to make mini-planter tower for some of them!

The only advanteage of squirrels burying nuts is the ones they forget, and which grow later!

You obviously love to experiment with different mediums Fran , I bet you use to blow up the class in Chemistry lessons Lol ....

lol not really, sadly! I went to school back in the late stone age, when girls didn't do science, unless it was the "domestic" kind. In our first year, boys did woodwork, girls did cookery, no choice for either. And onc ewe were allowed to choose which subjects we'd take, again science was definitely not on the cards for girls. Shame. But I probably would have been the "what would happen if?" type of chemistry student!