Recycling is not only an eco-friendly gesture and a way to save good money at home. When it comes to inventing new uses for the most diverse objects, creative ideas can be real geniuses that are useful and decorative or simply embellish and add a touch of color and originality to our balcony, terrace or garden.
In fact, gardens are spaces that invite you to enjoy with your eyes, either in solitude, feeding your mind and soul or also to share and show others how beautiful we have that small and at the same time large space that inspires us so much, full of life. For the same reason, we want to help you create original gardens with recycled objects, that is, a recyclable garden.
Pots
We started the ideas of gardens with recycled materials with pots. Conventional pots will pale with envy when they take a look around and see those old suitcases, coffee pots, saucepans, wellies or chirucas that have found their place among plants, full of soil and exuding joy, with flowering plants, giving a different touch, as fun as it is decorative. You can get really beautiful corners if you know how to combine elements, without overloading, with style and good taste.
Plastic bottles are great protagonists in gardens that make use of recycled materials. Either used as seedbeds or as hanging pots, or to create a vertical garden, in which case we will need a good number of bottles.
Now that you have this idea of recycled gardens with bottles, let’s continue to see what else we can do.
Furniture and sculptures
It is possible to set up a hydroponic system with plastic bottles, although for this we will need to have a minimum knowledge of hydroponics and quite a bit of skill, but we must recognize that, if the result is going to be like the one in the image above, it is well worth trying to have our own hydroponic garden.
Or, for example, if you are DIY, glass bottles are a real gold mine to get small decorative vases in which to grow without soil. The principle is the same as that of hydroponic cultivation. Basically, the idea is similar to that childhood game that consisted of placing a potato or sweet potato in a glass of water, holding it with chopsticks so that the roots could access it.
We will get to make those hydroponic containers or pots by cutting the bottles in half (there are tools to do it, for safety don’t try without them) and placing the plant on top, fitted with the base, from which it will obtain the water through the same roots. The result is very decorative, and we can also do it with plastic bottles, although they don’t look so good.
If you liked this idea of a recycled garden, do not hesitate to take a look at the following article of EcologíaVerde con Plantas hidroponics: types, list of examples and how to grow them.
Alp Fishermen
Another way to get creative gardens recycled is with cans. Empty cans hung horizontally can make curious and very useful birdseed, but if we also paint them in colors or cover them with wrapping paper, for example, and hang them with ribbons or colorful scraps, the result will be spectacular. And, in the same way, with other strategically placed objects, it will be easy to build nests or shelters to attract biodiversity to our garden.
Let’s continue reading to see other eco-friendly garden ideas with recycled materials that you may be interested in.
Tires in our recyclable garden
Finally, tires are another amazing raw material for our garden. They are used to make a swing, a gigantic pot and a set of them, or to give a touch of color to garden furniture, for which it would also be interesting to use pallets. Again, as can be seen in the images, painting them with taste and without fear achieves great things.
Other recycled objects
Almost anything can fit in a recyclable garden:
- Doors
- Furniture
- Bicycles
- Pianos
- Cars on which moss, grass or climbing vines can grow beautifully, as long as we do it with style and being original we will achieve that decorative effect we were looking for.
The difference between those ecological gardens with vulgar recycled materials and others that we like, enchant and fall in love with is none other than that taste for details that makes a big difference.
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