Good housewives strive to make their home comfortable and beautiful. Flowers in interesting flower pots on the windows are one of the ways to make your home cozy. Skilled hands can build pots from almost nothing. Waste container, which is just right to throw in the trash, easily turns into a design masterpiece that makes a good impression on the hosts and guests.
How to create a masterpiece from nothing?
In every house there are old things that are a pity to throw away. They can be given a second life by making. It is enough to wash the container, remove the stickers from it, make a hole in the bottom - and the new house for indoor plants is ready.
It is now fashionable to plant flowers in worn shoes. Especially comfortable rubber. You can’t put such flower pots made with your own hands from improvised materials in an apartment, but they will fit perfectly for the street. 
DIY plastic bottle pot
Usually they make pots for seedlings, but they are also suitable for creating real flower pots.
The easiest option:
- Cut off the top of the bottle.
- Poke a hole in the cork with a thick needle to allow excess water to drain.
- Insert the top with the twisted cork into the bottom of the bottle with the neck down.
A simple pot is ready.
You can also make a flower pot in the form of a large glass with your own hands. The disadvantage of such a product is the absence of a hole for water drainage. So that the plants do not die, a good layer of drainage should be covered at the bottom and such representatives of the flora that are not afraid of overflow should be placed in a homemade planter. It can be a compact houseplant - anything except a cactus.
The best drainage in such cases is activated charcoal. It effectively absorbs excess water and prevents roots from rotting. Activated charcoal can be purchased in large packs from a hobby store.
You will need:
- bottle;
- computer disk;
- glue gun;
- dye.
Manufacturing:
- Cut the bottle in half.
- If desired, make the edges curly in the form of teeth or waves.
- Apply glue to the bottle cap and stick to the center of the disc.
- Paint with spray paint.
You can also paint the second part of the bottle, then you get another flower pot.
Now there are paints that imitate stone, wood, metal. They can decorate an ordinary plastic flower pot.
Tin cans in progress
Flower pots from cans are out of place in a classic interior, but they will fit to decorate a loft-style home or a country house. Cans of baby food, paint, canned food are durable and lightweight. If you remove the label from them, even without painting they will look decent.
If the vessel is damaged, covered with glue, scratches, rust, you will have to renew it. The easiest way is to paint. Pattern and color can be any. The main thing is that the owners like the finished product.
old crockery
Pots, plates, teapots and any utensils can act as flower pots - they can also be made with your own hands very simply. It is enough to update the surface with acrylic paint and make holes in the bottom. Making a new home for the flowers is a great way to benefit from a beaten mug or bowl.
Teapots can be effectively hung by the handle, creating hanging pots with ampelous plants.
Planters and pots that you can make with your own hands from old dishes, photo:
There are special drills for ceramic tiles, but they are thick and not suitable for processing mugs.
Holes in a ceramic or porcelain cup are made with an electric or hand drill by inserting a glass drill into it:
- A piece of paper is glued to the bottom of the cup.
- Periodically, the drilling site is poured with water so that the tool does not overheat.
A large mug with a massive bottom is drilled with a drill with a tile drill in small modes, without pressing the tool. During operation, the container must be upside down.
Grow only in transparent containers. Old glass vases cope with this role. You will need a special glass drill. To prevent glass dust from spreading around the room, the vase must be placed upside down in a bucket filled with water, so that it is completely hidden in the liquid. Water will protect against dust, dirt and overheating, and reduce the likelihood of cracking the vase.
The drill is turned on at the smallest speed and allows the tool to enter the glass on its own, without exerting physical effort. The slower the tip moves through the thickness of the glass, the less likely it is that the container will crack.
The easiest way is to drill dishes made of metal. Pots are made from steel and aluminum teapots, cans, pots, cups, mugs. Metal can be drilled even without a drill and a drill, using a metal screw and a conventional screwdriver.
Cement and rags - who would have thought?
It is not known who first came up with the idea of making a street flower vase from old rags and concrete, but honor and praise to an unknown inventor. His technique makes it possible to produce exquisite garden decorations from waste material.
To make outdoor flower pots with your own hands you will need:
- rag made of fabric that absorbs water,
- any container (for example, an old bucket),
- coloring pigment for concrete admixture,
- mixing container,
- strong polyethylene.
To stir the solution, you need a paint spatula. An electric drill with an appropriate nozzle will greatly simplify the work.
Making a vase:
- sift the sand from debris and large stones;
- put a rag in the container and make a mark at the level to which it reached;
- pour water into the container up to the mark;
- pour sand and cement 1: 1;
- stir;
- wrap a bucket or other container that you have chosen to make a vase with polyethylene;
- dip the rag into the cement mortar so that it is completely saturated
- after 10 minutes, remove the rag and let the excess solution drain;
- put the rag on the form, wrapped with a film, and turned upside down;
- straighten the fabric so that the bottom is even, and bend the edges with arbitrary folds or sharp creases;
- leave the product for 1-3 days;
- remove the cloth from the container.
Do-it-yourself planters made of cement and fabric, video:
The technology of making a flowerpot from improvised materials will be quickly understood by those who made flower pots from vinyl records, melting their edges over the fire, after which they sagged in beautiful folds. Now that the records have become a rarity, inventive people have figured out how to make similar products from ordinary fabric.
Ideas for floor vases
Floor vases are used to decorate apartments and country houses. In order not to purchase a vessel in a store, you can use the well-known papier-mâché - a mixture of wet paper with PVA. The substance is smeared on a base of any durable moisture-proof material.
Papier-mache allows you to create complex shapes and specific relief. If a smooth surface is needed, the dried product is sanded with an abrasive cloth and a leveling layer is applied.
The retro style vase is made from an old aluminum can, spray-painted brown. In the same way, you can decorate a bucket for flowers.
In a metal vessel, you can put both artificial and natural flowers. If you cut off the neck and drill a few small holes in the bottom, the can can be covered with earth and used to grow live ornamental plants. Aluminum is cut with a circular saw, metal shears, a hacksaw for metal, an electric jigsaw.
DIY garden vases
Garden vases are easiest to cast from concrete. The surface of the product is decorated with any natural materials, in this case pebbles.
Such vessels are durable, take any shape in the hands of the master, have a solid weight, so they are not blown away by the wind and do not overturn.
Manufacturing technology:
- choose two containers of different sizes, one of which fits freely into the other with a large gap;
- treat both containers with sunflower oil so that the solution does not stick to their surfaces;
- mix sand with cement 1:1;
- dilute with water to the consistency of thick sour cream;
- pour the solution to the bottom of a large container;
- fix a piece of plastic pipe to form a hole for drainage;
- wait until the solution sets;
- put a small container in a large one;
- fill the gap with concrete;
- leave for 24 hours;
- remove the inner container;
- spray concrete with water;
After a week, the finished flowerpot can be shaken out of the mold, covered with earth and planted in it.
pot decoration
When it comes to planters, color is often more important than shape and even size. A beautiful drawing makes you pay attention to the design of flower pots.
Many grow indoor flowers in ordinary red clay, believing that such containers "breathe", so the plants are more comfortable in them. There is some truth in this. But even such a pot can be given a bright personality, and without compromising useful properties.
Making a dull flower pot with multi-colored pebbles, as in the photo, will not be difficult to do with your own hands:
It is not necessary to cover the clay with an airtight layer of varnish or paint. You can take a glue gun and paste over the walls with beautiful pebbles or small cuts.
An interesting option for decorating flowerpots is eggshell. It is very important to free it from the film before work, rinse and dry well. The shells are glued with the convex side outward to the PVA glue.
The final step is coloring. You can paint both the shell itself and the walls of the pot.
Perhaps the most sophisticated way of decorating is decoupage. This technique involves the use of paper and can be used on any pot, including plastic and corrugated.
Decoupage pot decor:
- Clean the surface of the pot from dirt and degrease with acetone.
- Cover with base paint.
- Cut out the necessary motives from paper.
- Glue the paper to the surface.
- Varnish.
Master class on decoupage of a flower pot on video:
You can decorate a flower pot with your own hands using lace. It gives sophistication to any product, even a cheap plastic pot. It is easy to work with this material. The container is covered with PVA glue and the fabric is glued.
Instead of lace, you can take burlap or combine these two materials, as well as additionally decorate the fabric with beads or beads. All additional elements are also glued to PVA glue.
It is known that the little things made by one's own hands give the house a special charm, many are able to tell about the tastes, habits and hobbies of the owner. And one of these individual features of your home can be flower pots made by you yourself.
In addition, each of your green pets has its own character, requirements for planting and care conditions, and a pot made according to an “individual project” is able to fully satisfy both your aesthetic tastes and the vital needs of the plant.
Self-made flower pots
clay pots
Clay is considered a traditional material for making flower pots. And, of course, you can easily buy a clay pot in the store.
But it can make it yourself, even without a potter's wheel at hand.
For manufacturing you will need:
- clay;
- kiln for firing the finished product.
Before starting work, thoroughly knead the clay until smooth.
Separating a small part from the total mass, form a ball and, flattening, give the shape of a round disk. You have the base of the pot ready.
Form a tourniquet with a diameter of about 0.5 cm and a length equal to the diameter of the bottom. Strengthen the tourniquet on the bottom and proceed to the manufacture of the next. In this way, you will form a clay pot of the size you need.
Leave the finished work for a couple of days to dry, after which the product must be fired.
Don't know how to do it right? We will tell!
The basic conditions for the proper reproduction of hyacinths are described, do not neglect them if you want to grow a healthy and beautiful plant.
pot of cement
This product will be not only original, but also durable.
For work you will need:
- several bricks;
- cement;
- sand;
- two plastic containers, different in volume;
- In addition, you will need a puncher and an old basin or pan in which you will mix the solution.
Prepared lubricate clean containers with oil(can be vegetable): smaller in volume - outside, large - from the inside. So you protect them from excessive sticking of the solution.
Prepare a mixture of sand, cement and water. Place the finished solution in a larger container, and place a smaller workpiece inside. The greater the difference between the volumes of these vessels, the thicker the walls will be in your pot.
Place bricks or other weight inside a small container. The cement mortar must dry within 2 days. After that, cut the plastic containers and free your product from them.
In this way, quite large flowerpots can be made. Small pots made in this way will look rather bulky, but, nevertheless, also original.
If desired, after drying, such a pot can be painted with acrylic paints or decorated in another way.
Gypsum pot
The procedure for making a gypsum pot is similar to cement technology. Only other ingredients will be needed:
- gypsum;
- water;
- two plastic containers of different sizes.
We take a larger container, lubricate it with oil inside, put a smaller container inside, lubricated with oil from the outside, set the desired level and pour gypsum, after making a solution in a ratio of 2: 1.
To have a more complete picture, I recommend that you familiarize yourself with the video of this process below, in addition, at the end of the video they will show how to decorate such a pot with decoupage technique.
wicker pot
If you are a fan of eco-style, you can try to weave a flower pot from twigs. The process is quite laborious, but the result will undoubtedly please you.
You'll need:
- twigs, preferably even;
- a piece of burlap;
- strong twine;
- glue;
- container base in the form of a cylinder.
Cut the twigs so that their length is slightly higher than the height of the base container.
Tie the twigs together with twine to make a solid "canvas" with which you could wrap the cylindrical base. Glue the base with a piece of burlap, and attach the resulting structure of rods on top. Secure with twine. If instead of twine you take a bright jute cord, your product will turn out to be more elegant.
mosaic pot
Beautiful and original are pots made in mosaic technique..
As a "mosaic" you can use small pebbles, shells, fragments of porcelain or dishes, or colored glass.
Thus, you can arrange both small pots and flowerpots of solid size.
For work, in addition to the "mosaic", you will need:
- tin base (this can be either an empty tin can or a tin bucket);
- plaster;
- mounting grid;
- grout for tiles.
Cover the tin with plaster, and then wrap the mounting mesh, "drowning" it in the plaster mix. Next, lay out the entire surface of the future pot (excluding the bottom) with the prepared “mosaic”. After that, leave your product to dry completely.
Finally, treat the surface with tile grout, to give the pot smoothness and eliminate cracks and the gaps between the pieces of the "mosaic".
Remove grout residue from the surface with a soft cloth.
A pot made from a piece of wood
Original floor pot can be made from a small old stump, and a piece of rather thick bough can be made into a smaller pot.
To make such a “house for flowers”, remove the core from the tree, clean it from the inside and sand it.
If desired, you can free the stump from the bark or leave it in its “natural” form. In any case, coat the product on top with wood varnish in several layers.
After complete drying, the new pot can be used for its intended purpose.
Coconut shell planter
The coconut shell will serve as an excellent container for plants that do not need frequent watering.
Ampelous plants will look good in it.
To make such a design is quite simple: cut a coconut in half, remove the pulp, then drill holes in the bottom for drainage, and holes along the edges in order to thread a cord or chain through them.
Put expanded clay on the bottom, and place the substrate on top - the pot is ready!
felt pot
Felt products are now at the height of fashion. Why not give your favorite flowers a felt nest?
Take pieces of felt, ready-made or felted with your own hands, cut out the details of the future pot and sew them together! In such an unusual pot, plants will feel very comfortable.
Mini cactus garden
Unusual containers for planting cacti and other slow-growing houseplants can be made from wine corks.
To do this, the core of natural cork is removed with a knife. The mini-pot is filled with soil.
On the one hand, with the help of a thermal gun, a magnet is attached to it, powerful enough to hold the weight of the “pot” with the plant.
Such mini-containers can be attached to any metal surface, for example, to the refrigerator door, forming whole flower arrangements.
Other ideas for unusual homemade pots
- If you are a fan of high-tech style, and you still have unnecessary computer diskettes, you can build original flower pots from them. By the way, they are perfect for growing violets and other small plants.
- By gluing together 5 square mirrors of the same size or 5 ceramic tiles, you will get an easy-to-make, but stylish and original flower pot.
- Pots can be made from old vinyl records. If a vinyl disc is heated, it becomes soft and pliable, easily taking on the most inconceivable shapes.
Use of old things
Sometimes flower pots can serve as the most unexpected items. So, porcelain, earthenware and earthenware can turn into an excellent container for planting indoor plants. Cups, deep salad bowls, teapots with flowers planted in them will enliven the interior in country or Provence style.
Enamelware is also suitable for planting flowers. But this is more of an option for a country house.
By the way, if you could not find a suitable pot for bonsai, an elegant salad bowl is perfect for this. It is only necessary to carefully make drainage holes in the bottom with a drill.
Sometimes the most unexpected things can turn into flower pots. For example, an old cosmetic bag can also serve as a container for planting flowers.
Decoration of finished flower pots. How to decorate a pot with your own hands?
To create a flower pot with an unusual design, it is not necessary to make it from scratch. You can take ordinary standard pots as a basis and decorate it with your own hands and according to your own taste.
Having painted a clay pot with acrylic paints and varnished, you will get a real designer thing. By the way, such work can be entrusted to a child - and the image on the finished product will delight you with its sweet immediacy.
You can decorate ordinary plastic pots by simply pasting them with bright patches of fabric. Or you can crochet “clothes” for a standard pot - such containers will give a special comfort to your home.
By gluing the pot completely or partially with braid, twine, lace or just bright threads, winding them around the container, you will get an original and stylish decoration for your home.
You can decorate an ordinary pot with buttons, shells, coffee beans, cereals or beads.
Used to decorate pots even eggshells. It must first be treated with a solution of soda and dried. The prepared shell is glued to the surface of the pot with PVA glue, gently pressing down in the process so that it cracks. Next, the surface of the pot is covered with ink, which fills the voids between the pieces of shells. After that, the surface of the pot is wiped with a cloth and varnished.
Plain plastic pot can be decorated using decoupage technique using PVA glue and a paper napkin with the pattern you like for this. The pattern is cut out and glued to the surface of the pot, carefully leveling so that wrinkles do not form. After drying, the finished picture is varnished.
Other Flower Pot Design Photo Ideas
Using the tips above, you can create a truly unique pot at home, as well as decorate and decorate it with your own hands.
To decorate the garden and the house, gardeners often use hanging planters.
Baskets made of vines look very nice, which can be made in a wide variety of shapes, for example, in the form of a ball, cone or rectangular box.
Perhaps, flowerpots made of wire or forged metal will become a harmonious decoration of any landscape design. This option is especially attractive in that it creates the feeling of a certain complete "flight" of the flower bed.
In addition to the shape, material and design of the flowerpot itself, when choosing it, it is important to pay attention to the fastening. In addition, the fastening of containers for hanging flower beds must be very strong and reliable.
This is necessary so that when decorating a flower bed in the yard, you can rotate the plant from time to time to protect it from the sun's rays.
The specifics of planting suspended flower beds
Planting a hanging flower bed depends on the shape of the flowerpot. In simple flowerpots, reminiscent of potted plants, that is, those that have only one open surface, the plants are planted as usual.
It is a completely different matter if the flowerpot is designed to create a hanging ball. In this case, the walls of the frame are filled with moss, which is designed to retain moisture, and the entire basket is covered with a special film, which is most often sold complete with such flowerpots.
Then, in those places where the shoots should subsequently grow, it is necessary to make small holes. The seedlings should be carefully inserted into the holes made, and the soil should be poured into the flowerpot and the plants should be planted at the top.
Having planted flowers to create a hanging flower bed with your own hands, you should water the soil a little and hang the flowerpot in a cool place for several days.
Hanging flowers in the garden: which plants are suitable for hanging flower beds
To create hanging flower beds, it is better to choose plants that are unpretentious in care and do not have special requirements for the condition of the soil.
In addition, when choosing inhabitants for such flowerpots, it is important to consider the ratio of the size of their root system to the size of the pot.
For example, petunia roots grow very quickly, and if the pot for this flower is less than 6-8 liters, then its root system will soon fill the entire volume of the container, due to which the plant may die.
A do-it-yourself hanging flower bed will have a very beautiful design when planting luxuriantly blooming annuals in flowerpots, for example, pansies, petunias, verbena, marigolds, etc.
Almost all domestic plants, including Kalanchoe, nasturtiums, daisies, rejuvenated, stonecrops, etc., also get along well and grow in a hanging planter or flowerpot.
Of course, bright colorful flowers will always be a worthy decoration of any garden or interior, but you should not think that only flowering plants can be used in the design of hanging flower beds. For example, flowerpots with herbs - mint, rosemary, etc. look very beautiful and stylish.
And for those who love originality, we can advise you to make a very unusual, but very useful decoration - a hanging basket with small-fruited vegetables, for example, strawberries, which will bear fruit even on the veranda or balcony.
Specific care for hanging flower beds
Caring for plants planted in hanging pots depends on whether they have pallets.
Baskets without a pallet prevent stagnation of moisture in the soil, which, on the one hand, is good, since it slows down the decay of the root system of plants, and on the other hand, it can lead to a lack of moisture if the flower bed is in a sunny area.
If the flowerpot is equipped with a tray, then you should not water the plant too often, and also install it in darkened areas.
In addition, the soil in hanging flower beds must be periodically fertilized, because. during watering, minerals in it are washed out.
In all other aspects, caring for plants in hanging garden beds is no different from caring for plants planted in open ground - they also need to be watered regularly, eliminate dried leaves and fight pests.
Hanging flower beds are exactly the addition that can give brightness and expressiveness to any suburban area. They can be hung in gazebos and pergolas, on fences and poles, on garden benches, in a recreation area, on a summer terrace, balcony and even on the walls of the house - everywhere they will look beautiful and harmonious.
However, when designing suspended street flower beds, it is also important to take into account the style of the backyard plot. You can beautifully emphasize the beauty of the landscape with bright colors or unusual shapes, or you can focus on the natural beauty of plants.
If such hanging flower beds "settle" in your garden, be sure that this decision will not disappoint you. Beautiful flowers and plants, neat and well-groomed, always delight the eye and create an atmosphere of comfort, and if they are also suspended in beautiful, original flowerpots, then such an arrangement of the site can only be envied.
Old enameled bowls, flower pots, buckets will be used to create planters. The containers are hung on chains and hung as high as possible so that any passer-by can see and appreciate this beauty.
It is such a pleasure to make simple things for the garden with your own hands. Please yourself with a hanging flower pot, it can perfectly decorate the porch of a private house or a balcony in a city apartment. And we will share with you a master class on its manufacture ...
What you will need:
- Wicker basket, you can use an old one or even weave it yourself
- Sphagnum is peat moss, it is used in gardening and construction, you can find and collect it in a marshy forest or purchase it in specialized stores
- Rubber gloves
- land for landing
- Small plastic trash bag
- Bucket of water (for soaking the moss
- Beautiful flowers and plants for planting
Soak the sphagnum fibers in a bucket of water, wring out a little and lay out the bottom of the basket.
Once you've laid out enough moss, place a piece of polyethylene on top and poke small holes in it to help trap some of the moisture.
Fill the remaining space with potting soil.
Start planting your flowers and plants. It seems to me that ampelous petunias or other ampelous flowers will look great in this pot.
We decorate the garden with our own hands. Enjoy)))
wooden planter
For the original hanging planter, you will need 24 bars 15-20 cm long. Laying them in a checkerboard pattern, they form a square box with through holes.
Connect the bars with nails or screws. Ropes are tied to the bars, at the corners of the upper edge of the flowerpots and a homemade flowerpot is hung on any tree in the garden.
Wooden planter with viols:
A wooden planter, similar to a hanging swing, will “hold” an entire flower bed with pansies (violas) on itself
burlap pots (tarpaulin, felt)
A heavy fabric, such as burlap, is great for making rustic planters. All that is needed for this is to cut two blanks from the fabric in the form of a semicircle or square, sew them like a pocket and hang them on the fence.
For hanging, you can use a fabric strip sewn to the upper edge of the planter or a wire threaded into the fabric.
Hanging planters for the garden made of felt
In a felt pot, you can put a pot with garden annuals.
New outfit for the watering can.
If you have old watering cans or buckets with basins lying around in your country house, do not throw them away, treat the surface with rust sandpaper, and paint them in bright colors. Inside it is fashionable to put pots (or bags of soil) and flowers. And these items will turn into funny pots
You can hang them on racks, trees, fences
How to make a hanging flower pot from a plastic container
1. Materials and tools. Plafond itself. Galvanized wire with a diameter of 2 mm from the latest project. Key ring. Round nose and pliers.
2. We prepare three pieces of wire 25 cm long.
3. With the help of round-nose pliers at one end of each wire, we bend a round eye.
4. At the other end of each wire, we make a “P”-shaped bend. After all the modifications, the length of the three blanks should be the same.
5. With the help of an awl or the sharp end of scissors, we make three holes with our own hands in the area of \u200b\u200bthe neck of the ceiling.
6. Insert "P" -shaped hooks into the holes
7. We put wire blanks on the key ring. The pot is ready.
8. We plant plants. Plants can be varied, but it should be noted that the pot does not provide drainage and, if the plant requires frequent transplantation, it may be difficult to extract the plant in this pot design.
Pots can be built not only from cans, but also from plastic bottles(the most common source material. which is always at hand).
Paint the surface of the pots
You can decorate the pots with twine
To do this, we need a plastic bucket of ice cream or other products: 
and you will also need jute twine
Glue the beginning of the skein together to fasten the handle.
And we begin to wrap the twine around the bucket. Make sure that each circle fits snugly together, without gluing the twine. When you have reached the bottom of the bucket, you can glue the last few circles, and also glue the end of the twine well.
Then it remains to make 4 holes and hang a bucket-planter decorated with twine.
Wicker flower pot
You can braid a flower pot to hang it in a simple way that imitates macrame.
In order to make a hanging planter, we need about 10 pieces of thick rope, about 90-120 cm long, several large buttons and a metal ring. And decide on the size yourself.
Instructions:
We fold our pieces of rope in half and fasten with a simple loop as shown in the figure:
Then select two loops located side by side and fasten their adjacent ends with a button, as shown in the figure. It is better to place buttons at a distance of 5-7 cm from the ring.
For flowers with your own hands. Almost all families grow indoor plants or flowers in the garden. It looks very interesting if standard flower pots are placed in an unusual planter. Of course, there are a lot of bright and original planter models on the market, but any person wants to bring individuality and some zest to their home or garden. There are a lot of options on how to make a planter with your own hands, it remains only to choose the material that will look most appropriate in your home or yours.
Advice! It is worth remembering that a planter, unlike a flower pot, does not have special holes in the bottom from which water could pour out after watering. Do not forget to drain it from the pots so that the roots of the plants do not rot. Free space between pots and flower pot or another container in which flowers grow, usually lined with moss or gravel so that the pot does not “dangle” inside.
DIY flower pots: building material
Surely, after the repair, any housewife has some unused materials that can be adapted to create flower pots:
- If there are slats, bars or other boards, you can create wooden planter . First you have to cut out equal parts for the walls, and then connect them with nails or glue. The walls and bottom of the pots can be designed in the form of a lattice, or they can be solid. For oblong bowls with flowers, a pot-box in the form of a small fence. This design is appropriate in an apartment or.
- Pretty easy to do DIY planter for the garden from the remains of logs However, it is better to entrust this business to a man. A log about 1-2 meters long can be rested on two small logs to make a kind of bench, or simply laid horizontally on the ground. Then the inner part is cut out in a large log, only the walls and the bottom remain. Inside you can put small bowls with petunias or others.
- From the remnants of ceramic tiles, you can make a bright planter . To do this, you need only 5 parts, one of which will become the bottom, and the rest - the walls. The easiest way to connect the parts with glue. Spectacular interior items are obtained from mirror tiles, they are easy to fit into modern minimalist interior or style.
- When burlap or other dense fabric remains from construction and gardening, you can make pots for small plants . To do this, you need to cut out two identical square or semicircular parts and sew them on three sides. For a more complex pattern, you will have to choose a base in the form of a wire that will shape the product. These pockets look great on the fence of a country house or on the balcony.
Cache-pot from natural materials
What could be easier than using the materials that gives us to create flowerpots and pots. nature? In the nearest forest or by the river you can find something that will subsequently significantly transform your interior:
- A beautiful planter will turn out from pebbles - small streamlined stones. They are glued together, giving the future product an unusual shape. Similarly, you can use nut shells, tree cuts, small twigs, cones, etc.
- Can do pots for giving do-it-yourself from a stump . A core is cut out in it, where a large plant, such as a fern, is placed. If you make several of these stumps at the same time, you get a whole clearing in the garden.
- Eco-style planters can be weaved from the vine. Weaving from a vine is a rather difficult task for a beginner, but the products are very effective. You can hang or put such planters both in the house and in the garden.
The garden will be wonderfully transformed if you decorate it with handmade items. The garden designer gets the greatest satisfaction if he manages to combine beauty and usefulness. From this point of view, the most advantageous decor is street flowerpots and flowerpots, which will not only decorate the local area, but also shelter your favorite flowers.
Vases from tires
Gloomy tires rarely fit into garden design. But really decorate them beyond recognition. For example, imitate brickwork.
A decorative planter-well is built from tires, timber and metal tiles
Unique flowerpots from tires are made quickly.
Step-by-step instruction:
- On the side surface of the tire with chalk, draw a notch line.
- Cut the tire with a knife along the marked line.
- Turn the tire over, press down on the inside with your foot, grab the edge and pull up and towards you.
When cutting with a knife, the blade should be wiped with grease or machine oil for better glide
Coat the rubber with a primer and apply a pattern.
For an outdoor flowerpot, oil or acrylic paints are used.
For complete masking, put a mesh on the tire, then a thick cement mortar with sand and glue the tiles.
Covered with tiles or pebbles, a flowerpot made of tires looks very stylish.
Photo gallery: design of flowerpots from tires
Draw a landscape on the tire and plant hostas A bright flowerpot in the form of a parrot will decorate an unsightly place Flowerpots in the form of cups look very elegant Place a flowerpot from a tire in the form of a kettle in the dining area A flowerpot from a tire in green tones organically fits into any landscape A flowerpot from a tire in the form of a cup is suitable for ampelous plants
We make a flowerpot from a tire - video
Flowerpots made of plastic and glass containers
Ordinary garbage will serve the cause of beauty, for example, various containers. Plastic is instantly transformed if you glue it with twine.
Any waterproof glue is suitable for sticking twine on an outdoor flowerpot
A great option is burlap decor.
Rough burlap sets off the fragility of flowers
Branch trimmings will also reliably hide the plastic.
Branches to the flowerpot are glued with glue or tied with twine
Apply a pattern to the pots with hot glue and cover with acrylic paint.
To create a three-dimensional pattern, you need a thermal gun
Or place the bottles in gift bags.
Gift bag planters are a quick way to spruce up plastic bottles
After cutting off part of the canister, create a planter for the wall.
The surface of the canister is smeared with glue and sprinkled with sand to create the effect of a “sandy” face.
Fix glass bottles on the fence and plant juveniles and stonecrops in them.
To cut a glass bottle, wrap it with copper wire at the cut point, heat the ends with a lighter, and dip into cold water.
If you cut a plastic bottle in half and glue the neck to the bottom, you get an original flowerpot.
If you paint the flowerpot with silver or gold paint, you will get the feeling that the flowerpots are metal
Flowerpot from a plastic bottle - video
Cache-pot in the form of funny characters from plastic containers
Get the kids involved in making unusual pots.
Garden flowerpots are created from any plastic containers
Pot-pig do-it-yourself - video
Bottle flowerpot
Looks great mini flower garden made of glass. The base (bucket or tire) is coated with a thick cement mortar with sand. Then rows of bottles are laid, pressing the necks into the base solution.
Consider the location of the flowerpot in advance, because it is difficult to move it
Gypsum planters
Eco-friendly materials are in vogue. Gypsum is famous for its best plastic properties. Any container or wire frame is wound with strips of fabric soaked in a gypsum solution until the desired wall thickness is achieved. When the product dries, it is sanded, primed, painted or pasted on the wall decor.
In the manufacture of planters, gypsum can be replaced with putty or alabaster
Pebbles, shells, tiles are used as decor.
If you mix gypsum with the color of the desired color, we get colored seams
Planter swan
The figures of birds will give a romantic touch to the garden. For a planter in the form of a swan you will need:
- gypsum - 5 kg;
- plastic bottle 5 l;
- leg-split;
- wire;
- mesh for wings and tail;
- bandage;
- primer;
- paints (white, black and red);
- putty knife;
- brush;
- emery.
It is convenient to knead gypsum with a special spatula
Step-by-step instruction:
- Cut off the side of the bottle and pour sand into the resulting container.
- Insert one end of the wire into the neck, give it a bend and wrap it with twine along the entire length.
- Apply a gypsum solution with a spatula with a layer of 2 cm on the surface of the "skeleton" of the future bird.
- On the sides of the body, press the reinforcing mesh (wings) at an angle.
- Apply several layers of bandage and plaster over the mesh to hide it.
- Form the head and beak by wrapping the wire with a bandage and applying layers of plaster. Smooth out irregularities with a brush.
- Attach the tail from the mesh and process it like wings.
Dry the figurine for three days, then sand it with sandpaper. Cover the bird with a primer, wait for it to dry and paint.
Making a swan planter is not as difficult as it seems
Making a planter swan - video
Cache-pot from a barrel
A large container will also come in handy. For example, iron barrels are stylized as human figures.
Ampelous plants are planted in flowerpots from barrels, which fall beautifully
Or sheathed with wooden slats.
Planks are fastened with a nail gun
Wooden barrels are cut in half across.
From one barrel you can make two flowerpots
The cut barrel is placed on a stand so that it lasts longer
Homemade pots from a barrel - video
Cache-pot from unnecessary things
It is not necessary to throw away everything that is worn out.
A second life can be given even to frank trash
Sometimes junk pots become the highlight of the garden.
Exquisite planter is obtained from a birdcage
An old umbrella will be transformed if you plant flowers in it.
To keep the umbrella decorative for longer, just put pots of plants in it
Photo gallery: planters from old things
Cut an old basketball in half Leaky watering cans are not good for watering, but will be a garden decoration Paint old colanders and plant hanging flowers in them Old flip flops and cups are a beautiful ensemble Attach sewer cuts to the wall and plant petunias in them Wrap an unnecessary hose around a flowerpot 
Weld a cache-pot umbrella from scraps of reinforcement and an iron sheet
Wooden planters
Products made from natural materials look most organic in the garden. Among them, the tree is the leader.
A simple flowerpot is made from an ordinary stump using a drill and a chisel.
Step-by-step instruction:
- On the cut of the stump, drill holes around the perimeter.
- Remove excess wood with a chisel.
- Treat the inside of the stump with stain and dry.
- Lay polyethylene inside the flowerpot and plant the plants.
Inside the planter, you can simply place a suitable size pot
Coat wood jewelry with antiseptic to keep it from rotting.
To prevent the logs from rolling, drive stops into the ground
Cache-pot from a bar and boards
All that is left after the construction of the house is used to decorate the site. Stylish containers for plants are built from timber and boards.
Planters made of wood are better to do on legs, so it will last longer
Planters painted in light gray are suitable for a Provence-style garden.
Drill drainage holes in wooden pots
If there are scraps of wood lying around in the barn, collect planters from them in the form of a well, a wheelbarrow, a bicycle.
Planter-well decorates the garden very much
Photo gallery: tree planters
If you put the stumps on top of each other, you get a picturesque composition. 
Plant drought-resistant plants in flowerpots Bulbous plants look advantageous in a flowerpot from a stump: tulips, daffodils, crocuses 
Please note that untreated wood will quickly lose its appearance. 
To make the texture of wood visible, tint it with oil Hang small planters made of wood in the gazebo Wooden planter will decorate the area near the house
The main requirement for gabion wire is durability
Any plastic container is easily decorated with crushed stone. Screws are screwed into the cache-pot, between which wire is wound, cement mortar is placed on top and crushed stone is pressed in.
A mesh of nylon thread or wire is needed so that subsequently the cement does not fall off the container
Dried products are varnished.
Holes are made in the upper part of the iron cans through which the twine is passed.
The flowerpot will not fall out of the attachment, woven using the macrame technique.
If design allows, attach three chains to the top of the planter
Sometimes the pots are nailed to a wooden rail, which is attached to the wall with dowel-nails.
Holes are drilled in the shelves of the whatnot through which the rope is passed
We hang planters - video
After chopping firewood in the country, a lot of beautiful bark remains, which I use to decorate flowerpots. The bark is cut into strips 2-3 cm wide and attached to the pot with a heat gun. Working surfaces are dedusted and degreased before gluing. If gaps remain between pieces of bark, I mask them with moss or lichen.
Hot melt softens in the sun, so flowerpots decorated with bark are best kept in the shade.
When creating planters from improvised materials, take care of their durability. Treat wooden flowerpots with anti-rotting agents and drill drainage holes. Before decorating the containers with stones or tiles, wrap them with a reinforcing mesh so that the solution with the decor does not fall off over time.
