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Rustic arbor and wheelbarrow with colorful flowering annuals
Creative Wagon Planter Ideas
These creative garden plantation owner theme come from home gardens .
These passe , vintage , and advanced wheeled carts andwheelbarrowsthat have been given a new living as a flower plantation owner .
Sometimes the handcart is the star of the show , other times the alternative of plants and interior decoration make it sing .
Old wood and metal item are very prostrate to decay and rust fungus in the garden .
1Rustic Arch with Old Red Farm Cart
I took this photo year ago on one of the first rural garden duty tour I ever attended . The pushcart alone is a not bad piece . The addition of the rustic arbor , advanced metal work , and masses of flowers make it double-dyed .
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2Horse Buggy with Flower Baskets
This is another one from a farm tour . The horse buggy has plenty of way to sit down baskets of annuals .
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3White Painted Cart with Red Wheels
I ’m not sure if this one was ever intended to carry stuff — those red roulette wheel expect pretty rocky ! But I for sure love it as planter compact with sissy and vinca vine .
4Cart with Metal Wheel
I have cart envy ! This one looks like they built the cart to go with the sometime wheel — I could be ill-timed but I do n’t call up it ’s age-old . But no matter , it looks great , specially with the flowers and weathered forest fence as a backdrop .
5Amish Buggy with Planters
Another retired roadster either from a local Amish or Mennonite family unit . The red flowers await gorgeous with the calamitous paint . This one was snap at a local garden nursery .
6Homemade Wooden Wheelbarrow
I take on this next one was reconstruct at some percentage point . It again proves that point that everything look good with pansies !
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7Plain Wood Buggy
This one was also photograph at a garden nursery . You ca n’t see the flowers from this stand . I bear the original paint was take away revealing the gorgeous Sir Henry Wood underneath , which is fine in a protected area like this .
8Antique Cart with Flowers
This one is a beauty ! The size and shape of the wood cart leave lashings of room for plants .
Is your wagon planter too cryptical ? piazza upside - down flowerpots in the wagon and sit imbed pots on top so you do n’t need a truckload of potting admixture .
This article has moretips for filling large flowerpots and raised garden beds .
9Front Yard Flower Cart
This one is in a front garden , fill with potted purple and white flowers ( and maple folio decorations for Canada Day ) .
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10Old Metal Wheelbarrow with Wood Trug
I build this garden trug to fit over top my garden cart . The whole thing is dressed up with faggot , petunias , andsweet potato vine . I prop up the back leg to make it expose nicely .
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11Little Red Wagons
This photo come from a friend of Empress of Dirt on Facebook : it ’s a compendium of little red flyer wagons lined up on the driveway and fill up with colorful efflorescence .
There are great deal of red wagon planter ideas but the main thing is to protect the paddy wagon as well you may . They do not do well with water sit in them : rust will quickly form .
For mine , I drilled drain holes in the bottom and also line it with landscape fabric before tote up plants in flock . This really avail extend the life of the wagon .
12Strawberries in Old Garden Wheelbarrow
I postulate this wheelbarrow from a neighbor ’s refuse . The metal barrow was rusting and had some holes so it seemed like it was require to be a planter . I built the wood plantation owner box to pose over top and filled both levels with strawberry plants .
The hand - painted hemangioma simplex polarity permit you know what ’s in there in lawsuit there ’s any question about it .
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13Old Farm Equipment and Flower Planters
Old metal and wood farm equipment is perfect for garden art . Here they have gather a ingathering of planters and hoarded wealth let in a vintage lamp post .
14Rusty Wheelbarrow and Broken Flowerpot
It ’s the place where broken things amount to roost . This old rusty wheelbarrow has seen better days . The begonia , broken strawberry mark pot , and funny birds give it an artful , way-out speck .
15Old Red Wheelbarrow with Sweet Potato Vine
One of my favorite combinations ever : the common of the sweet potato vine plus the purple flowers and deep red patina of the wheelbarrow are just stunning .
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16Rusted Tricycle with Half Barrel Planter
The old trike is a admonisher of the days when kids used to play in the garden .
17Half Barrels on Wood Deck
If you want wooden barrels to last longer , use something to run along them . you could bribe plastic liners for somebarrel planterslike these I on Amazon . I also use plastic flowerpot within other decorative planters to help keep wet and avoid rotting Sir Henry Joseph Wood .
18Black Metal Bicycle with Basket Planter
This wheel was made to be a ornamentation . I have no approximation of its rootage but you may see it ’s not operational . I screw the front field goal of prime . If this was mine , I ’d be tempt to hang the whole affair up on a wall and have flowers and vine give chase down .
These next ones are sitting outside a local antique and collectible store .
19Yellow Bike with Yellow Flowers
I think this gardener loves yellow ! Some gardener put bikes as - is in the garden , others paint them . Either way , it ’s your garden and your choice .
20Tall Wood Barrel
This is another collector ’s item . With a plastic pot of flowers infix in the top , it makes a decent rustic industrial plant stand .
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21Giant Old Wagon Wheel
long time ago in this expanse , and I assume in other part of Canada and the United States , big old wagon wheels were standard décor in gardens . It was almost expect that you have a wagon wheel ! While not a giving sports fan of conformity for the sake of itself , if you love them , show them off .
22Mini Water Mill at Home Garden
This pic was taken at a rural garden . They built a small brook around the perimeter of the property and had a functioning mill that turn over with the piss flow . It was quite magic .
23Standard Wood Half Barrel
Another fine barrel planter on a deck . Those improbable flowers in the middle are cleome ( wanderer flower ) .
24Wood Barrel Fountains
25Buddha Gets the Last Laugh
What can I say ?
And that ’s it for wagons and wheels in the garden .
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