Introduction: Vertical Flower Garden
Add some colour to you patio with a vertical flower garden. This allows the flowers to be closer to you when looking at them and so they appear to be larger. It also enables a number of pot plants to be grown using a small footprint.
The pot plants are attached to a vertical shaft made from beverage cans which is fixed to a concrete base.
Supplies
Eight beverage cans
Cement
Packing tape
7 flowering pot plants
Step 1: Attaching a Pot Plant
Attach a small pot plant to the shaft with a couple of strips of packaging tape. One strip around the bottom and another around the top. Make sure the tape cross at the back to make a loop which won't come apart. The pot plant should be fixed so it hangs out a few degrees. Marigold flowers work well as plants to use.
Step 2: Add Some More Pot Plants
Step 3: Another Version
Step 4: Capillary Watering
Step 5: Stand and Base
Step 6: Making the Stand
Make a stand:
- Cut the end off a beverage can.
- Trim with a pair of scissors.
- Insert a can into the end of the cut can.
- Secure with tape.
- Cut the end of this can and insert another can.
- Add six more aluminum beverage cans in the same way.
Step 7: Making the Base
- Cut a beverage can in half.
- Fill with cement.
- Place the filled half of can into a small bowl.
- Pour cement in around the can, leaving most of the can sticking above the cement.
- Once the cement has set 'green', twist the beverage can and remove it.
- Once the cement is fully set, remove the base from the bowl, invert it and place the cement filled can back in as shown in the photo.
- Fit the stand to the concrete base.
Remember to water the pot plants regularly to prevent them from drying out.