Wednesday, 10 June 2009

Recycling And Not Making It Look Rubbish

Continuing from yesterday's post on Future Gardens, I found when I got home that I had a lot of photos of some great uses of recycled or unwanted items in the gardens. So I'm just going to post a few of these for your viewing pleasure:

Corrugated card reeds in Nature's Artistry - Autumn's Edge:


And in the same garden, dried leaves used as mulch:


Walnut shell mulch in Narratives Of Nature:


And cutlery in the bottom of the ponds, complete with little metal letters!


Anthracite rubble in Anthroscape 3 (anthracite is a more metamorphosed coal which tends not to be used that commonly):


Rubble, old building bricks and tiles and broken plaster drawing a boundary around Theatre Of Insects:


And recycled glass in the British Butterfly Garden:


And a toilet bowl nestling in the middle of the very much pun-intended Bog Garden (this may be lost on the American readers):


I have to say, I'd not considered planting flowers in an old toilet, but it'd be an excellent container! Who needs a Belfast sink when you can have a good old Armitage Shanks avocado-coloured throne?!

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