Cool! I did the same thing with one of many spindles that DH saved from a dumpster at a jobsite, but they're pretty thin & he put a little birdhouse on it that I got a garage sale for 50 cents. I was going to leave it to turn weathered, but I might still paint it. I like how yours it painted. I hope to do one of my beds into a planter too, but still looking for a drawer to fit. I think the little double drawers is cute! Like the flowers on them as well.

concretenprimroses Kathy, You should try your hand at welding. It isn't that hard with a wire welder. You can rent one to try it out first before you buy one. My husband bought me a Lincoln wire welder and I have made a couple of little pot trellises. The worst thing about it is I keep wanting to raise the welding hood to see things better. And the metal at a metal supply place is really cheap and can be cut with a grinder. Maybe I need to get my welder warmed up as well. I don't know what my problem is this year...I have a heated garage but everytime I start a project it seems I am missing some supply and don't want to get cleaned up to go to town to get it. Just the blah winter blues, I guess. Regina

Greg: I love your ladder! What combos. Aren't you in Corona, CA? Since I'm only a hop, skip or jump away, I'd love to come over some weekend and drool over your plants. Can we set something up? For others interested in my tower, i was running out of space so I had the idea to go up. I have a small backyard with dogs so I don't have many plants in the back. I used a 4 foot piece of rebar picked up at the local Home Depot for under $4, & pounded it an inch or so in the dirt in the path next to my walkway. Used a big clay pot on the bottom, ( they are all clay pots) as the base, just pushed the pot down to the bottom of the rebar. The next pot, and all subsequent ones, I pushed the pot down the rebar and then leaned it to the right on top of the bottom pot, resting it on the edge. The next pot, pushed it through the hole down the pole so to speak and rested it on the left edge and so on until the top pot which ended up on the right. The tip of the rebar is barely visible to the left of the top pot. The biggest challenge was trying to figure out which succulents to use. I wanted to use two colors, purple and green. I tried to use some that were trailing, some that are short and squat and some that grow higher upright. I had to really pack the soil down hard so the plants would not fall out until they are really established. Finally covered the soil with shells and sea glass. They obviously need to be watered from the top down, sort of slowly so as to not lose any soil. I've included a picture of the whole tower. We have a lot of walkers on my street and when people stop to comment, they think the rebar is bent. For some, it's hard to convince otherwise. My next one will not be tilted pots. I'm going to just stack them and use succulents around the outside of each ring. If anyone else has done this, I'd like to see what plants you have used. Enjoy!

Y'all are so sweet. My goodness and what cool photos! I love putting old stuff in my garden. Its a container garden in a little fenced in courtyard. I have old tarnished silver oval platters hung on the wall like mirrors, and I buy old salt and pepper shakers for cheap at antique or thrift stores or on vacation and put a wooden skewer with a paint chip stapled to it in one of the holes and use them as plant markers (Go Sharpie!). They're nifty and some can become pretty cool little garden statues with a purpose. And they're two for one technically! Plus they're cuter than plastic sticks and gives you something to do with all those pretty, colorful (and often waterproof) paint chips you have leftover from that one project. I think putting different items in your garden or among your plants is kind of like jewelry for your garden. Gives it character and makes it fun to look at while you're waiting patiently (or not so patiently...)for the seedlings to really fill in and become plants. Like the post Marcia! Thanks, Sarah