Prettiest Tire Planters - ever!  Next week I am going to help design a butterfly garden at Level Creek Elementary School - and you can bet this will be one of the projects I recommend to them. Tires are almost always free for the asking at any tire shop, so you can pick out the prettiest tires on the premises. Prime the outside surface before painting with flowers. 

Prettiest Tire Planters - ever! 

Next week I am going to help design a butterfly garden at Level Creek Elementary School - and you can bet this will be one of the projects I recommend to them.

Tires are almost always free for the asking at any tire shop, so you can pick out the prettiest tires on the premises. Prime the outside surface before painting with flowers. 

The last surviving Ellis Island Ferry, The Yankee, built in 1907, has been transformed into one remarkable houseboat, complete with an irrigated vegetable garden growing in 104 used tires (the “Polka Dot Garden”), and a chicken coop. The houseboat was purchased and transformed by Victoria and Richard MacKenzie-Childs (both designers), and is now docked in New York. The Yankee is a registered historical vessel with the National Registry of Historical Places. Photos by Navid Baraty.

Chairs made from recycled bicycle tires, located at the whimsical garden “Bella Madrona” in Sherwood, Oregon. The gardens were created by Jim Sampson and Geof Beasley which inspired a song by Pink Martini. Lyrics as follows: “The Gardens of Sampson & Beasley” Under Orion’s starry sky I lie in the moonlit garden Wondering where to cast my eyeFor all that I see is heaven Oh why does it have to endI wish we could still pretend You’re near, just around the bend In the gardens of Sampson and Beasley Last time we were in this place Your face had a certain sadness And oh how I’ve wondered since What you’ve done with all that sadness Oh why did it have to endI wish we could still pretend Our love was around the bend In the garden of Sampson and Beasley Under Orion’s starry sky I lie in the moonlit garden Wondering when I close my eyes If I’ll ever find my heaven Oh why will it never endThese days where I still pretendOur love just around the bend In the gardens of Sampson and Beasley

Chairs made from recycled bicycle tires, located at the whimsical garden “Bella Madrona” in Sherwood, Oregon. The gardens were created by Jim Sampson and Geof Beasley which inspired a song by Pink Martini. Lyrics as follows:

“The Gardens of Sampson & Beasley”

Under Orion’s starry sky 
I lie in the moonlit garden 
Wondering where to cast my eye
For all that I see is heaven 
Oh why does it have to end
I wish we could still pretend 
You’re near, just around the bend 
In the gardens of Sampson and Beasley 

Last time we were in this place 
Your face had a certain sadness 
And oh how I’ve wondered since 
What you’ve done with all that sadness 
Oh why did it have to end
I wish we could still pretend 
Our love was around the bend 
In the garden of Sampson and Beasley 

Under Orion’s starry sky 
I lie in the moonlit garden 
Wondering when I close my eyes 
If I’ll ever find my heaven 
Oh why will it never end
These days where I still pretend
Our love just around the bend 
In the gardens of Sampson and Beasley

These are just too cool.  Functional beauty from recycled tires.  unconsumption: UBeauty in Australia makes these plant pots from rubber tires. “Built to last, each pot is extremely durable, lightweight, frost resistant and can be placed indoors or out.” (via Cool Planters Made from Recycled Tires | Inhabitat) I’ve seen the carry alls made from used tires and I have seen the (usually hideous) used tire garden but I have not seen smaller scale planters like these. also, these are quite chic don’t you think?

These are just too cool.  Functional beauty from recycled tires. 

unconsumption:

UBeauty in Australia makes these plant pots from rubber tires. “Built to last, each pot is extremely durable, lightweight, frost resistant and can be placed indoors or out.”

(via Cool Planters Made from Recycled Tires | Inhabitat)

I’ve seen the carry alls made from used tires and I have seen the (usually hideous) used tire garden but I have not seen smaller scale planters like these. also, these are quite chic don’t you think?

(via storagegeek)