The New Life of a Broken Plant Pot – 8 Fresh Ideas
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Now, one of the pictures we encountered while growing up includes those of dad and mom making sure that everything in the house is put to good use. Yes, don’t you remember what happened to improvisation, especially when money has to be saved, and there are some tools that could do the job? In fact, everything could be improvised when we grew up. One of the items that held very important positions then includes the plant pots at the gardens, in front of the corridors and inside the sitting rooms. When the pots got broken, there were a million and one things they could be used for. None of them becomes useless because they’ve cracked or broken. The broken plant pot in our homes will always get a new life then. Because of this, kids were allowed to play freely and dogs ran around in the house, with our parents knowing that whatever gets broken will still assume some position of importance. Below are the ways old or broken plant pots were put to amazing use.
- Now, the first method of using the broken plant pot to still hold the plant is by stationing it sideways in such a way that the broken side will be buried on the ground in a natural-seeming way. This will give you an effect where the soil will look like water that is pouring out. When this is found in a retro styled home, it could be the thing that gives the home an out of this world look.
- Another method of using this is in form of a dry stream bed with gravel or stones, with some plants like Acorus to make it more beautiful. Close to the pot, you have to insert some perennials or other plants that are large in size. With the larger grasses, it will naturally fit into the landscape, and will not give the abrupt insertion look.
- When you check these broken plant pots, you will realize in most cases that the breakage is always from the bottom. This means that those flowers or plant pots that come with open mouths will also be very useful. Those lovely plants like Horsetail and Bamboo that will always go invasive will have this pot handy. The pot will serve as the root control device. With this pot on the surface, with the plant passing through it into the ground, the surface roots of the plants won’t travel wide.
- When you have plants that will need their roots moist at all times, you can employ these broken pots. When the soil on the root area of the papyrus and horsetail are saturated, they thrive more. The best way to achieve this constant saturation in such area is to use the broken pot and bury it in a way that the hole in the bottom is full of cork, wax or silicone. This will do the job of a bog when it is dry
- You can also enjoy the broken pots in the fairy garden projects. Yes, many people enjoy this system of gardening these days, and they present huge opportunities for broken plant pots. One way to do this is to arrange the sides and rims of the smaller pots in the bigger ones. This could be made more visible and interactive with different types of stones, sticks, mosses and other things. Place this on your patio or garden, and we will all look again when we move past them.
- This may seem as if it doesn’t apply to the garden, but it does. Upon breaking, the plant pots seem to form an amphitheater sort of, as the bottom of the pot will normally have almost half of the entire unit on it. Use the remaining piece as a candle holder on your patio. Spread pebbles on the bottom and plant candles inside it. This will come handy when you want to do dinner on the patio or when you are throwing the next party in your garden.
- If you like to see the small animals in your garden, then your broken plant pots won’t be useless. Won’t you like to teach your kids about toads and other smaller animals? Won’t you like them to see one in your garden? When your plant pot breaks, pick that small remnant of the bottom and a small side, and paint an attractive image on it. Go to the corners of your garden and turn it upside down. Watch and see how dermaptera, toads, gnome, lizards, millipedes, and others will turn it into their home. You may also be lucky to see snails gathering under it. Of course, a meal of snail could be on the corner just because you got it right with your broken plant pot.
- The last and one of the best ways we deem fit to use your broken plant pots is to use them in mapping out or designing the garden pathway. Of course, you have a lot of flowers and grasses you wouldn’t want mashed on and killed in your garden, so you need garden paths. If you have frequent rain and feet constantly full of mud, you will need this too. Here, you should use gravel to map out the route, while the small pieces of broken plant pots should serve as accents in the pathway. Arrange them according to design, color, sign or pattern, and they will look very beautiful.
Try these today. In the end, you would have gotten a lot of value from what you hitherto deemed useless.
Author’s Bio: Richard Harris is a freelance writer and gardener. He studied design at the Salem College. His passion is design, gardening, and photography. You can see more photos by him on https://max-polyakov.pictures/ .