A planter for flowers can be made from the most unexpected materials: old newspapers, unnecessary cages, bottles, twigs, pencils, rags and other improvised means. It is great when houseplants are in containers made in the same style. And you can make a pots from the most unexpected materials that are at hand.
What to plant flowers in?
Before talking about how to make pots, it is worth telling why they are needed at all. House flowers grow best in clay pots. But, unfortunately, they cannot keep their original appearance for a long time. A plaque appears on the outer walls that cannot be washed off. Place such pots with your own hands in a beautiful planter and see how the flower will transform.
When choosing a planter, buy one that is 1–4 cm wider and 5 cm higher than the pot. Garden frames for flower containers should be designed for outdoor use. Some plants can be planted directly in pots, but then drainage must be poured into the bottom. In this case, you will save on the pot.
Here are the materials from which pots, flower pots can be made with your own hands or purchased, from:
- clay;
- ceramics;
- metal;
- wood;
- glass;
- plastics.
The planter can be woven from:
- threads;
- vines;
- fiberglass.
Each type of pots has its own characteristics:
- Clay planters have an unprocessed, rough or smooth surface. Sometimes it is decorated with modeling or painting. But such products are suitable only for indoor use, they allow water to pass through, therefore they are not suitable for a garden.
- Ceramic pots and pots are glazed. She decorates such products and allows them to keep out the water. These containers are suitable for home and garden design.
- Metal containers for flowers are a modern look, they will look great in a high-tech room.
- Wooden containers are made of environmentally friendly material, serve as an excellent protection for the roots of flowers from hypothermia, drying out.
- Glass ones have a modern look, they look beautiful in the interior. Since they are transparent, it is convenient to observe the water level (for example, when watering and with orchids).
- Plastic - lightweight, frost-resistant, not afraid of corrosion, easy to clean. Orchids grow well in such containers, the roots of which cannot tolerate many materials.
Macrame-style pots made of threads or vines also look wonderful.
Planter from old birdcages
An old birdcage will make a wonderful planter for flowers. If you feel sorry for throwing this item away, and the feathered person no longer lives there, turn the cage into a home art object. First wash it, dry it, then arm yourself with this:
- acrylic paint of the desired color;
- brush;
- gloves.
Do not thin the paint with water, even if it is slightly thickened. Then the color will be more saturated. Cover the rods of the cage with paint, let it dry.
To less get dirty in the paint, start covering the rods with it first from the inside, then from the outside. Choose a shade that blends in with your surroundings. Inside, paint through the bird door. If the cage is collapsible, unfold it, cover its individual elements with a tone. After the paint has dried, place 1-3 flower pots inside, preferably with young vines. When they grow up, they will beautifully wrap the cage, clinging to the rods.
See what interesting and unusual materials you can make a pots and a large pot for plants to place in a winter garden or in the country.
Pots made of old things
It's not so easy to guess that these flower pots are made from old rags. Here's what you need for unusual needlework:
- unnecessary rags or burlap;
- cement;
- water;
- rubber gloves;
- capacity.
Prepare a solution from water and cement, slightly thicker in consistency than sour cream. With gloved hands, lower the fabric into it, wring it out, place it on an inverted container. What size it is, so will the planters made.
When the rag soaked in the solution is dry, turn it over.
Pour some expanded clay inside, then soil and plant the plant.
If you want to make a pot for home flowers, then use a small container. For a garden planter, this could be, for example, a 10 liter bucket.
See how beautiful products made from burlap look (photo on the left below). The top of these pots was decorated with fabric flowers. If you have an unnecessary openwork canvas, you can make a small and large pot out of it and place it in the garden. Leave them the same or paint them.
Give a second life to old things, get creative by taking:
- canvas;
- PVA glue;
- water;
- plastic bag;
- acrylic paints;
- rope;
- acrylic lacquer;
- basin;
- brushes;
- curly plastic bottle or other container.
Fill a bottle with water, wrap a bag, tie. Place this structure on a spread fabric, cut out a circle of the required size, hem the edges by 4–5 cm. Pour PVA into a basin, add a little water, stir. The smaller it is, the better, since this affects the strength of the final product.
Place a cloth in the solution, remember it and squeeze it several times.
Place the bottle in a plastic bag on the spread soaked in glue solution (in its center). Wrap the edges, tie with string, let dry. If the bottle is narrow, wrap the newspaper, tie it, and put a bag on top.
If you want to make a planter for flowers under an existing pot, also wrap newspapers around it, but a little, and put a bag on top, tie it. To make flower pots further, wrap the edges of the fabric up with your own hands, covering the side seam with a fold. They need to be made around the entire container, tying the fabric with a string.
Place the workpiece in a warm place until it dries completely. It is better to place it near the battery or periodically dry the future decor item with a hairdryer.
Without removing from the bottle, paint the pot in any color, adding PVA to the paint for greater strength.
When this layer is dry well, remove the bottle from the container made by untiing the rope. Paint the outside of the planter with 2-4 coats of paint. When it dries, then also varnish 2-3 times. In a planter, you can put a pot with a plant or make an inlay of artificial flowers.
And if you want to put the tree of happiness there, then pour gypsum inside the container, position its trunk, leave it in this form until the solution dries.
And here are 2 more ideas on how to extend the life of old things. You can update the pot by simply wrapping a cement-soaked cloth around it. Drape it at your discretion and leave it on the pot after drying.
You can cut old things into strips and weave such braids out of them.
Apply generously to the pot with PVA. Starting at the top, wrap the outside of the container in a spiral. In this case, the turns should fit snugly against each other.
Vases for the garden made of wood
In such, you can plant flowers in the country, and they will feel great. Excess water will go away, and the soil will warm up enough to keep the roots comfortable. But it is better to put them where there are no cross winds, drafts.
Plant an ordinary indoor geranium in such a large pot, and soon you will not recognize it, since it will be completely dotted with inflorescences. Make such a pots from the remnants of building materials by taking:
- bars;
- boards;
- antiseptic impregnation;
- wood varnish;
- hammer or screwdriver;
- screws or nails.
Measure the length of the bars, what it will be, this will be the height of the pots. Knock down the frame of the pot from them. Cut the boards to the desired width. Attach them to the sides and bottom of the planter. Cover it with stain and then 2-3 coats of varnish.
Craftsmen can make such a large pot of wood or similar and arrange a fabulous corner for children in the country.
Other flowerpots also look beautiful, use bamboo sticks and branches for them. To make a planter for flowers from the first material, take
- bamboo sticks;
- jigsaw;
- thick twine;
- scissors;
- centimeter tape.
Determine the height of the pot for which you will make a planter out of wood. Cut bamboo pieces of this length. Now these fragments need to be connected. Measure out a string equal to two circumferences of the pot, plus a twist margin.
Fold it in half, place the first stick in the loop formed, twist this part of the twine with a figure eight, place the second piece of bamboo in the second loop.
Thus, arrange all the pots, also connect the lower ends of the sticks, fix the twine on the first and last bamboo. This is how beautiful outdoor or indoor flowerpots are made.
You can make flower pots with your own hands from branches. If they are leafy, cut off. Trim the bottom of the branches so that it is flat on this side. Attach the blanks to the pot, wrap with an elastic band or a beautiful rope.
We decorate plastic and clay pots with our own hands
There are many ways to do this. If you have an old plastic pot of sufficient size or a bucket of the same material, make several round holes in it with a heated knife, pour soil inside, and plant seedlings of flowers.
To prevent the earth from spilling out, first fill the container with soil up to the first holes, plant seedlings, then fill up to the second, plant flowers. So make the container higher and higher. See how beautiful flowers look, including ampelous petunia, in such a pots. To hang it, use special fasteners or weave using the art of macrame planters and hang the pot. You can tie several metal chains with wire and hang a container for flowers from them.
A photo of flower pots will help you see the idea in action. You can decorate plastic containers not only by the plants themselves, but also in other ways. Take on the crackle. This method allows you to artificially age a thing. Craquelure varnishes are used for it. We will achieve this effect by decorating old plastic pots with our own hands, using eggshells.
Here's what you need to transform the flower container:
- shells from boiled eggs;
- acrylic paint;
- baking soda;
- PVA;
- ink;
- varnish;
- sheets of paper.
If you will be using white, beige shells, then cover the pot with dark acrylic paint, this tone will highlight the mosaic elements.
- Remove the inner film from the shell of boiled eggs, rinse.
- Prepare a baking soda solution. Degrease the shell in this liquid, dry it. If you want to color it, do this procedure at this stage.
- Spread the surface of the pot with PVA, attach several shells to one area with the convex side up, cover with paper, press lightly. Then the shells will split into smaller pieces and stick together.
- After holding this for a few seconds, move on to the next section. If you want the crackle cracks to be wider, then move the shells apart a little.
- Cover the work with ink, wait for it to penetrate the ornament, then wipe off the excess with a slightly damp cloth. The mascara will remain only in the cracks, the shell will not change color.
- Varnish the planter to secure the mosaic and it will last.
Here's how else you can transform flower pots, it's very interesting to achieve this effect with your own hands. And to those who come to the house, who see such a rarity, you can tell a story about being at the excavation of an ancient burial mound, where they found this ancient thing.
For work are taken:
- pot;
- alcohol-containing liquid;
- sandpaper - grit 70 and 100;
- moisture resistant putty;
- marsh acrylic paint;
- brush.
The order of work is as follows:
- Degrease the outside of the pot with an alcohol-based liquid, then rub over this surface with sandpaper.
- Cover the pot with putty and let it dry.
- On top of this layer, apply a marsh-colored paint. When dry, sand it with 100-grit sandpaper.
The photo shows the phased work of how flower pots are decorated using this method.
And here is the result.
For you and other visual aids. See how natural materials are transforming plastic flower pots.
After a forest walk, bring bark (from a dry tree), moss, cones. Cut a piece of birch bark of a suitable size, wrap the containers around it, secure it by tying it with twine.
And the moss needs to be dried, glue it and the cones to the surface of the pot, well oiled with PVA.
If you want to convert white flower pots, just take:
- containers for flowers;
- PVA glue;
- twine;
- brush.
Use a brush to apply glue to the surface of the pot. Twine the first twine at the bottom, securing the end of the string. Next, twist the rope around the entire surface of the container up to the top in a spiral. And here's what an interesting, simple and low-cost floral decor has turned out.
If you want to update the flower container, you can even do this with ordinary pencils. Glue the pot around the pot with them, placing it vertically and placing the rubber bands up. It remains to decorate with a bow and place a new piece of furniture in place.
If you want to decorate a pot in an oriental style, the following idea will certainly appeal. For her, the already familiar craquelure technique was used.
Here's what you need to get creative:
- flower pot;
- eggshells;
- acetone;
- silver, white and black acrylic paint;
- toothpick;
- PVA glue;
- varnish.
Degrease the outside of the pot with acetone. Apply silver paint, wait for it to dry. Then paint the middle and upper parts of the container white. While this layer is drying, decide on the hieroglyphs that you will draw.
Here's what the most suitable ones mean:
Draw the hieroglyphs in the center of the pot in a circle. Decorate the distance between them, as well as the upper part of the pot with shells previously painted with black paint.
To increase the distance between the mosaic pieces, move them apart with a toothpick. She will give them the right location. Decorate the bottom of the container with light shells. After staining with 2-3 layers of varnish, the decoration of the peas is over.
The scope for this creativity is immense. In the second article, we will continue this interesting and necessary topic. In the meantime, here is a selection of wonderful ideas for you that will help you decorate your pots or make them yourself:
