Milk powder cans
The quality of the milk powder cans is very good. It is a pity to throw them away. After a little treatment, they become very strong iron flower pots, which are very beautiful to grow flowers~
First clean the milk powder can and dry it, then use a hammer to nail holes at the bottom. If it is a 1 cm wide hole, you can nail 3-5 holes. If it is a 0.5 cm diameter hole, you need to nail 6-10 holes. A few, more are more breathable.
Then use white spray paint (available in hardware stores or online). Spraying white can cover the writing on the surface and can also be used as a base color. In addition to spray paint, you can also use acrylic paint.
After the white color dries, spray other colors. With white as a base, the subsequent colors will have higher color rendering and will be very pure.
Spray it into a colorful milk powder can, dry it in the sun for a few days to loosen the smell, and then you can use it directly.
If you want to create further, you can use a brush and paint to draw the pattern you like.
Students who cannot draw can choose simple shapes, such as drawing hearts_, five-pointed stars☆, small flowers_, musical notes_...it will be very beautiful with a little embellishment.
Or paint it black in the middle, and then use white paint to write or English, this will be a Nordic style flowerpot.
Patterns such as circles, triangles, and leaves arranged repeatedly are also very beautiful.
The simplest rainbow stripe. If you are worried that the drawing will not be straight, you can wrap it with a tape measure to mark it, and then fill in the colors.
If you really can’t draw well, use a sponge, eraser, or potato to cut it into a circle or heart shape, dip it in paint and “stamp” the jar, so that the finished product will be very uniform.
Look at the successful DIY made by a flower friend (who has no painting skills), isn’t it beautiful~
Picture author: Marianne’s Daydream
In addition to drawing, there are other DIY methods, such as writing your initials, English letters, etc., and then poking holes along the writing to create a hollow effect.
Cut out the pattern you like (paper or fabric can be used), put glue on the back, and stick it on the jar.
Use hot glue to add the pattern, then spray dark brown paint/acrylic paint.
Finally, spray a layer of white paint/acrylic paint. Don’t spray this layer too tightly. Exposing some brown paint will give it an old feel. Is it the same as the pastoral style iron flowers sold in the store? Are the basins exactly the same?
If you have cement or adhesive at home, you can also paint a layer on the outside of the jar.
Add a layer of pebbles, fill the gaps with cement, and finally let them dry.
After polishing it at the end, you will have a beautiful stone basin, which looks very good~
If you don’t have paint, paint and cement, the old wool at home can also be used. Give milk powder first Wash the jar, dry it, apply a layer of water on the surface (glue stick or double-sided tape can be used), and wrap wool around it.
Using ropes of different colors, plus cloth strips and lace scraps, the effects are also different.
If you want a pastoral style, you can buy some hemp rope to wrap.
You can also use bamboo sticks and branches to tie it in a circle.
Milk powder cans are strong and durable. With a little treatment, they can turn into beautiful flower pots. There are more and more flowers at home. It would be great to save money on flower pots and buy more flowers and fertilizers. ~
Wine Bottles
When I encounter a beautiful wine bottle, I really don’t want to throw it away. If I collect it, it will just sit on the shelf and gather dust. It is better to transform it into a flower pot. It is very artistic to grow flowers.
The mouth of a wine bottle is generally very slender, which is suitable for arranging flowers. If you want to grow flowers, it must be cut off.
The most common cut is to cut the bottle from the widest position along the middle. After cutting, the diameter is suitable, which is good for growing flowers and grass.
If it is a special-shaped wine bottle, it is even more rare. According to your own preferences and creativity, you can open a small opening in the bottle and plant more delicate plants, such as golden branches, jade leaves, and bonsai plants. , succulents, calamus and the like.
Growing flowers in wine bottles is very beautiful. Wine bottles of different shapes combined with good plants will reflect different artistic conceptions.
I believe that many florists are interested in wine bottles, but they just don’t know how to cut them. Most wine bottles are porcelain bottles, and cutting requires an angle grinder. You can ask in the hardware store, or you can also buy them online. The amount ranges from 150-300.
The older method is to use an emery saw blade. This wire-like thing can also be bought in hardware stores and online stores. It is tied to a bamboo strip to make a bow and arrow, and is slowly sawn. Just open the wine bottle.
Before cutting, use a marker to draw the cutting line on the bottle.
Then cut along the lines. The one shown here is operated with an emery saw blade. When using an angle grinder, follow the instructions for the angle grinder.
Finally saw it, and then polish it with sandpaper to make the cut rounder.
As for drilling holes at the bottom, you can soak the wine bottle in water for 24 hours in advance, then tap it slowly with a hammer, or drill holes with a drill.
Tires
Scrapped old tires are also very good for growing flowers. Two large tires are equivalent to an oversized flower pot. They can grow both large and small plants. Just plant them inside. It grows like crazy.
The removed tires basically do not need to be processed. They can be used to grow flowers after a little washing. If they are not moved frequently, there is no need to place anything at the bottom, just fill the soil with soil and plant flowers.
If you don’t want the shape of the tire to be too obvious, you can turn it over and trim the edges slightly to create a lace effect, so that it is not easy to see that it is a tire.
Black tires don’t look very nice, but after planting stunning hydrangea, the feeling is different.
If you have ideas, you can also modify the tires, which will not only make the tire flower pots look more beautiful, but also make the internal structure simpler, making it easier to cultivate soil and plant flowers.
Rinse the tire first and let it dry. Use a white marker to draw a pattern on one side of the tire (choose according to personal preference), and then cut it along the pattern.
On the other side of the tire, cut directly along the concave position of the rubber. Cutting a circle around the inner buckle can make the interior of the flower pot at the back more spacious, and the growth of plant roots will not be hindered.
Then turn this tire over~
The second tire is used as the bottom of the flower pot. There is no need to cut out the lace. The concave rubber at the bottom is left as the bottom, and the upper opening is cut flat. Some (retain about 3 cm of inner buckle rubber).
Put the two tires together.
Use a hand drill to drive screws on the overlapping edges of the two tires, so that they will be more stable and will not fall apart.
The bottom is padded with wire mesh. If you are worried that the wire mesh will loosen, fix it with the rubber ring you cut out at the beginning (stretch one ring first), and then place it at the bottom so that it will not fall off at will.
Finally, spray paint or acrylic paint on soil. Different color combinations and patterns will produce different effects.
Picture author: Lotte Lollipop
For flower lovers who have a lot of concrete floors at home, this giant tire flower pot is very useful for planting roses, clematis, and hydrangeas. Such as medium and large plants, the effect is comparable to that of ground planting, and it can also be moved.
I have tires at home, but I am just short of a few rose trees. I have started to buy them now. The seedlings have grown quite big, and the thick bamboo shoots are about to sprout flower buds. They will bloom as soon as I get home. Click on the picture below to buy Rose Miao:
If you find the above method a bit troublesome, you can also directly paint the tires without having to consider cutting or turning them over.
Tires of different colors look very artistic when put together.
You can also draw some simple patterns on the tires.
Or use tires to make interesting shapes, such as the two cups below. The cup body is a tire and the cup handle is a circle cut from the tire.
The three colors of yellow, blue and black, plus a white can lid and a beer lid in the middle, are the minions.
Picture author: designer-Wang Erbao
Cement flower pots
In recent years, industrial style and Nordic style have become very popular, and cement flower pots are also in these styles. Representative, it costs dozens of yuan to buy a cement flowerpot, so why not buy some cement and make it yourself?
Start with the simplest towel cement basin, mix the cement with water.
Find an old towel and cut a 2-3 cm wide hole in the middle of the towel (the bottom of the flower pot).
Then find a flower pot as the liner, put a cement towel on the flower pot, with the hole at the bottom in the middle, wait for the cement to dry and the shape will be finalized.
The folds of the towel and the size of the inner pot can be adjusted by yourself before the cement is dry. Each flower pot is unique.
In addition to towel flower pots, you can also use bubble plastic wrap to shape the shape. Prepare a basin, put the bubble plastic wrap in it, pour in the cement slurry and spread it evenly, and then put it in a barrel to compact it. .
When the cement dries, it will look like this when you take it out. Planting flowers is also very artistic (I almost forgot to leave a hole at the bottom when applying cement).
In addition to circles, it can also be made into squares. The outer shell and inner tank must be square.
Another idea is to use disposable gloves, pour the cement slurry into the gloves, put the two gloves together tightly, adjust them to the shape of holding them with both hands, and wait for the cement to dry.
After the cement is dry and set, you can tear off the plastic gloves and place the two cement palms together to plant succulents and other small plants, or use them as ornaments, which is full of creativity~
In addition to gloves, cement can also be injected into old boots. A cylindrical object is placed in the boot shaft as an inner liner. When the cement dries and the boots are removed, a pair of "boot" flowerpots are created.
The principle of the cement flower pot is very simple. You can adjust the appearance and inner pot at will. If you want a regular round shape, just find two cylinders to make the outer shell and inner pot; if you want a square shape, you can find Square inner shell and liner.