Garden Month has us looking for inspiration everywhere, even en route to the parking ramp. Less than one block yielded three garden-worthy ideas from the street that tweak the familiar in fresh ways.
This tub at the Mill City Museum evokes culverts, pipes and galvanized trash cans.
In a good way.
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One door down, a classic pattern got reworked in oxidized metal.
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Comments (9)
Those round metal tubs look exactly like (and probably are) stock tanks... metal tanks that farmers use to water livestock. Growing up on a farm, we had plenty of them. My sister and I even had one just for us, to use as a swimming pool. I love seeing them in an urban setting!
Yeah that one up top looks like a water trough
Oooh, I love the stock tank photo!
Does anybody know if it would be safe to plant edibles in a water trough like that, or are they coated in nasty chemicals? thanks!
I think it would be fine to plant edible plants in the horse trough, provided you get a new one or know the history of a used one.
I believe they are made out of aluminum.
Love the idea, love it. Might copy it - on a smaller scale - for a patio planter.
Very nice.
I think they're made of galvanized steel, not aluminum.
I agree, it would make a nice patio planter on a smaller scale!
Totally agree with earlier comments. . . if you have had livestock at any point in your life, those containers are reminiscient of water troughs, not trash cans! I've seen several lately; a local brewery here has a couple of different shapes of them in front, which makes a great display, but I have scrubbed out way too many to see anything but a water trough :-)
Ditto Glamtart.
We had some for the cattle and the horses...
and another one rolled out on the lawn in the summer for a pool!
Claire, if livestock can drink out of them, I think you can plant in them.