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Make a Pretty Chair Planter
by
Colleen Moulding
From junk shop chair to garden feature!
| First you need an old dining chair with a push out seat as
this is where the flowers will be growing. If you haven't got one lying around in a garage or shed, ask around friends
and family or offer a couple of dollars/pounds for one in a junk shop, charity shop or thrift store. |
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If you want to paint the chair this is best done first,
although a chair showing signs of age looks very good for this project too.
You can get a very nice effect by painting your chair with one colour, leaving it to dry completely, and then
applying another different colour all over. When this
second coat is completely dry, lightly sand off the second coat in the places that would naturally have received the
most wear and the first colour will show through giving a very pretty distressed look.
When you have your chair frame looking the way you like it, fix a double layer of chicken wire where the seat
used to be, in a bowl shape. A heavy duty staple gun is ideal for this job.
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Next line the chicken wire with a good layer of pre soaked sphagnum moss as this will be needed to stop the soil falling
through the wire. |
When you have a good layer of moss in place, sit a plant pot saucer or small shallow dish on top of it, just to
retain a little of the water and stop it dripping through quite so much. Then fill your moss lined chicken wire with
soil or compost and add your plants.
Pansies look very good in these chairs, as does a cushion of busy
lizzies. Climbing plants such as sweet peas will
wrap their tendrils around the chair back giving another dimension to the display and a couple of variegated ivies
or other trailing plants would look splendid curling down the legs.
Copyright 2001
Colleen Moulding
About the author: Colleen Moulding is a freelance writer from England where she has had many features on parenting, childcare, travel,
the Internet and many more subjects published in national magazines and newspapers. She has also published a variety of women's and children's fiction. Her work frequently appears at many sites on the Internet and at her own site for women and children All That Women Want.com a magazine, web guide and resource for women everywhere.
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