recycling 200 tyres!!!!

Hmmm... well, I admire your recycling and your optimism. I shall be very interested in seeing this again when the plants DO hide the tyres! Wherever did you get them all?

i know its a Hmmm. but a few years ago we built a lovely drystone wall with realy nice stone. now you can't see any of the stone as the plants have taken over! we got the tyres from the scrap yard they were only to happy to oblige!

great idea Sandra, i have seen folk use tyres from growing potatoes in and you are doing your bit for recycling which is good. look forward to seeing these again in a few mts

Keep us posted on progress, won't you, Sandra! I am sure that I will be able to remove my 'Hmm' from what you said about your other project!!!! :-)

thanks for the comments. i have done the potatoe thing (well i am in pembrokeshire!) most of my recycling is met with hmms! but most do work even if they take a bit longer than hoped. i'm ever the optomist!

Good for you Sandra , you don,t know untill you try do you , who knows we might all be doing it when we see your results lol

Good on you Sandra, doing your bit of recycle

A very innovative idea Sandra. The tyres could also look very exciting if they were painted in complimentary colours. Iv'e seen this done before and it makes an interesting feature and unusual focal point.Also mounds of sandy, grittty soil would look good banked up against the tyres rather like sand dunes

sounds like Grenville is tactfull trying to suggest too much tyre!!! i have to say i have concidered paint. i did a big black pipe thing with plants at a festival last year and it did look nice when the vote of "to paint or not to paint" was taken and i lost!! running out of soil and grit but that sounds good too. you've got me thinking now!

There was a small garden at Hampton Court three years ago where empty champagne bottles were buried upside down to form a path. The woman building the garden told us she didn't have enough bottles and the next day she and her husband failed to appear but the day after they came in with lots more empty bottles. I didn't like to ask if they had a big hangover as well!

Hello Sandra,
I have just joined this website and saw your huge tyre circle, how did you get on with it? I thought I was adventurous with 14 tyres in my garden :-) did you try growing anything other than succulents? I am going to try veg...any advice?
Thanks