There are many ways to embellish your yard or flower garden. One of the best ways is to repurpose old pieces of furniture. One way to do this is to use old, worn-out chairs and make them into outdoor planters for flowers and plants. They are beautiful and you can place them in different spots in your yard for "yard art." Move them from sun to shade. They make ideal conversation pieces as well. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Find a chair that is old and has no bottom in it. Put a wire planting basket in the place of the chair bottom. Wire it to the wood sides in several places so it is attached to the chair. Put in wet peat moss thickly in the wire basket to fill in all holes. Then put in planting soil on top of the peat moss.
2. Put in flowering plants that bloom all season along with some ivy. This will fill in as the summer goes by and become very full and beautiful. Place the chair planter against an out building, on the edge of a porch, in a flower bed or wherever you feel it fits in your yard.
3. Paint some of the chair planters to give your yard art variety. You can leave them worn, or make them bright with paint. Place them with other pots or containers of flowers to make yard art. Also, use chairs that have woven bottoms that have unraveled, and place a flower pot down through the weaving. Then plant your flower pot with your flowers and ivy, and the pot will rest in the seat of the chair.
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