Forget flower pots! Plant your summer flowers in jeans and boots—10 delightful ideas
Only your imagination—if even that—is the limit when coming up with fun planting spots for your summer flowers. Check out these creative upcycling ideas perfect for your cottage, home garden, or balcony!
1. Treasures in toolboxes and cake pans
The owner of this allotment garden has created several fun upcycling projects. An old metal toolbox now serves as a flower planter with multiple convenient compartments and levels. Old cake pans have also found new life nurturing seedlings that will later be transplanted into the garden.
2. The invisible man
Old jeans can be transformed into more than just shorts or patches. Fill them with gravel and soil, and you’ve got a quirky planter perfect for pansies or other flowers.
3. Colorful cookware collection
Vibrantly colored saucepans and coffee pots make perfect planters for summer flowers. Metal and enamel items weather well outdoors. Group containers of different sizes and shapes for a playful display!
4. Blooms in boots
Got leaky boots? Give them a new life in the garden! Radiant marigolds welcome visitors in this cheerful cottage garden.
5. You’ve made your bed
In this allotment garden, a box for a strawberry bed was made from two pallet collars, beautifully framed by a child’s bed frame bought secondhand. The same approach works wonderfully for creating an eye-catching flower bed.
6. Slippers with flowers
If you’re someone who loves a cozy vibe, plant your flowers in slippers! Place a pot without drainage holes inside to keep the slippers in good shape, and you can wear them again after summer. The perfect plant would be lady’s slippers, of course!
7. A cart ride in the garden
“We don’t buy new things—we find new uses for old ones,” says the owner of this garden, which truly showcases this philosophy. Cornflowers, for example, get to grow in a charming, rustic old cart.
8. Milk can full of color
Old milk cans are beloved garden features—and the rustier, the better! They make excellent homes for summer flowers, as well.
9. Bicycle blooms
An old bike makes a perfect flower display, with room for blooms both on the rear rack and in the front basket. And if you need to go for a ride, just lift the flowers out and pedal away!
10. Top of the tire tower
Stack old car tires to create an eye-catching summer flower tower. In this garden, marigolds thrive in this setup. Just remember to use tires only for ornamental plants, not edibles, since they may release unwanted chemicals.
