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One great idea for landscaping is to use unusual objects in your gardens and decorate to make the flower beds look like art themselves. An artist with such odd but attractive landscaping ideas has used recycled industrial parts to combine with plants, using things like gearboxes, spokes, and gear mesh plates for his planters. He will put a cabbage plant into a discarded wheel hub or use a cactus plant that seems to grow right out of an old machine shop chunk of stainless steel, and then plant lucky bamboo in the middle of a spring used to provide cushion suspension on a railroad box car.

Others have used such things as paper weights, hand blown glass jars, and ornaments used at holiday time, to scatter among the flowers in their flower bed plots, and these add color and reflect light to catch the eye. You can use an old whiskey barrel to grow strawberries, or you can use a discarded john boat or canoe, to grow a whole patch of eggplant or a row of beans, and you can even fill the boat with soil, suspend it into the air on posts, and have your squash vines flowing down from it like trellised grapes. There are so many variations on traditional landscaping ideas.

One group of agriculture students came up with exotic and practical ideas for planting food like potato, tomato, squash, and carrot plants in high rise apartment buildings, to figure out affordable ways for people living in poor conditions of cheap high rises in urban centers to have fresh food, and they used things like patio tomatoes, potatoes grown in a barrel, and strawberries grown in long containers, to achieve their goal for this academic study of how to harvest landscaping ideas out of extremely creative conditions and methods.

Whatever your landscaping ideas happen to be, experiment with them and have fun, because although landscaping is a serious business you don’t have to always take the work or the creation too seriously, and you could end up with some popular art along the way.

 

 

 

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