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Satellite dish garden

popmama (Colorado, USDA z5)

8 years ago

I watched this youtube video yesterday by this gentleman in Australia who makes these lovely succulent dish gardens. As he was showing off his custom made dishes, it occurred to me they look nearly like a satellite dish. I'm going to use this as inspiration to make one out of one of the satellite dishes I've collected from the trash.

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popmama (Colorado, USDA z5)
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8 years ago

I'll update the post once it's done, probably not until Spring. It's the wrong time of year here. But this time of year I seem to have a lot of ideas for what to do next Spring.

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tsugajunkie z5 SE WI ♱
8 years ago
Hence the term, "Hope SPRINGS eternal". lol

tj
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nancyjane_gardener
8 years ago
We had one of the old HUGE satelite dishes, and I always wanted to make either a pond or a garden from it. Made some $ selling it to the neighbor instead!

I have, however, made several succulent gardens from old fire pits that I got from recycletown at the dump! I'm sure I would have won some prizes from the county fair, but the fire pits were a couple of inches too big! Grrrrrr Nancy
kylslil1
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Super excited to see pics in the spring!!
popmama (Colorado, USDA z5)
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7 years ago
Here is the dish on top of a metal table stand I found at a yard sale for a couple bucks. I thought I would be able to get the bolts out of the dish to have drainage, but they won't come out. So I'll need someone to drill some holes for me, then I'll cover them with window screen, add some cactus soil, then plant with hens 'n chicks and other sedums. I will update with new pics once it's planted.
steiconi
7 years ago
great idea. We just took an old dish off our house.

My favorite thing I've ever seen done with a dish was a HUGE one used as the roof for a gazebo.

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