The Flower Tower FT001 Floor Standing Flower Tower - Black

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This Sage Advice tower idea is from DIY Show Off and is such a fun project! And it doesn’t take very long at all. Even less if you settle for one shade of color, though using gradient hues on the large one do give it a very finished look. Cofton Nursery, a little known, council-run nursery in Rednal, Birmingham, has the horticulturists behind the great displays of flowers across the city centre. The flowers you walk past down Colmore Row, across Centenary Square, and even some of the ‘flower towers’ dotted around Birmingham’s suburbs, are all the work of the nursery. Learn how to make a self-watering flower tower to grow your favorite annuals on it. The tutorial is here! 12. Polka Dot Planter Flower Tower You can accompany campsis with winter flowering kalanchoes for some floral colour at the base of the tower pot. These tropical beauties will help to keep the winter blues at bay during the colder months. Tina’s Tips: Choose your plants carefully

Place a tall, circular obelisk or trellis in a large flower pot and plant it up with a scented climber like sweet peas or roses. Passionflower also looks amazing and the buds will strive to find sunlight and poke their heads through the leaves. When the flowers are pollinated, you will have fresh fruit to eat later in the season. If you’re planting up a pot with a trellis or obelisk, choose climbers so that their tendrils can clasp onto the support a tower gives. Clematis, passionflower, peas, and sweetpeas work well. A really perfect one is Bloom Bells (Mandevilla sanderi), which produces vibrant red flowers and deeply tinted green foliage. Planted in the centre of an obelisk, this is one of my favourites! It happily meanders around the structure and the red flowers appear at intervals. A missed detail of the flowers on display is how each flower reflects the Commonwealth Games colour palette, and do well to spruce up parts of the city in a cost-effective manner. What kind of plants will you put in your creation? They’d also make great containers for strawberries or cherry tomatoes or any trailing food plant. Lots of choices of bedding plants at your local gardening centers. 2. Galvanized Topsy Turvy Pots Source: thepinkhammerFlower towers are the new rage for porches and balconies and patios. One of the big advantages is that you don’t need much space! You’re building vertically. And with a lot of these DIY designs, the sky’s the limit for height. You can buy the vinyl lettering at a craft store. Aside from “Welcome” what else could you put on it? Maybe try ‘welcome’ in three different languages? Or a sentence that stretches over all the pots, starting at the top? It’s all up to you! 11. The Corner Nesting Flower Tower Source: dengarden.com Wire cylinders and landscape fabric and dirt is most of what it takes. Honey Bear Lane used pansies and dianthus in red, white, and blue – great for both Memorial Day and July 4th. How long did it take to put the flower arrangements together in time for the Commonwealth Games? “Around two years,” Mr Share says. “It took a lot of planning especially the heatwave we are experiencing. Thankfully it hasn’t affected our water supply or the flowers.” For this type of designs, you want to make sure you choose trailing flowers and vine flowers for your creation. 6. Pink and White Waterfall Flower Tower Source: gardenclub.homedepot.com

Create a PVC pipe planting tower to grow flowers, herbs, greens, lettuces, and strawberries. The tutorial is available at the Instructables! 14. Terra Cotta Pots Annual Flower Tower If the plant support is sturdy, you can also add light plastic pots full of annual bedding flowers to give it some extra oomph. Bamboo flower pot tower The Home Depot Garden Club is our source for this stunning pink and white Cascading Waterfall design. It’s a lush, vibrant column of flowers that will make your patio, porch or garden pop.Plant beans and some ornamental, climbing flowers at the same time.Most climbing beans have exotic and colourful flowers. By growing different varieties you can enjoy a range of colours from white and red, to purple from the late flowering Purple Queen variety. Beans enjoy nutritious soil so make sure your climber likes the same. Sweet peas favour the same conditions as beans so this combination will provide nutrition for bees and butterflies as well as food for the table. One of the main attractions in the city is the council’s Chelsea Flower show arrangement, with iconic landmarks made from more than 3,000 flowers, willow, steel, and wood. It won a gold medal – the tenth year in a row – and is still on display in the grounds of Birmingham Cathedral at the corner of Colmore Row and Temple Street West. Plant it with rosemary, parsley, thyme, mint, sage, basil (there are so many kinds) – choose the herbs you use most. In this example, they cleverly used a stake with an angel top but any stake will do as long as it’s long enough. You could also plant green trailing foliage like philodendron – but why not supply yourself with fresh herbs. They smell good, too! 13. The Succulent Saucer Flower Tower Source: bhg.com If you’ve got an old step ladder, use it as a trellis to support your favorite flowering vine, which eventually will cover it. 9. DIY Flower Tower Vertical Garden This elegant idea follows basically the same principle as the others. Take a pot, in this case, a lovely clay pot, and build a wire cylinder inside.

Councillor Majid Mahmood, cabinet member for environment at Birmingham city council, said: “These flower towers and the work by our amazing Street Scene team have made Birmingham look fantastic and full of energy for our Commonwealth Games.” As well as being protected from the elements, placing a tower pot indoors means you can select more exotic, tropical plants. Campsis is a good choice and it will climb rapidly in the right conditions, flowering its trumpet-shaped blooms as it goes. They will continue flowering while the temperature is warm, even in winter. Make sure to feed them every few weeks to encourage flowering.Make a funny-looking topsy turvy pumpkin flower tower to showcase your flowers. Watch the tutorial video on Youtube! 4. Pyramid Flower Tower

From late July to early October, Hibiscus ‘Flower Tower Ruby’ produces masses of dark pink-red, semi-double flowers with red hearts. The flowers attract a wealth of beneficial pollinators. Drought tolerant once established. When you get all the pots painted and in position, then you get the glass lamp shade in position. You need to use “household/aquatic adhesive to attach the bird and to seal around the gap between the bowl and rebar hole”. And then find yourself a cute little ceramic bird and paint him to match your pots and you’ve got a fantastic duel purpose design for your patio or garden! 5. The Sage Advice Flower Tower Source: diyshowoff.com Suttons strives to ensure that all its plants are delivered to you in the perfect condition for planting. While the majority of our nursery plants cope well with slight delays in intransit, sadly, the time it takes to deliver to certain locations in the UK means that we can't guarantee this for some of our smaller plug products and tender bedding and vegetable lines, which do not respond well to the extra journey time. So regretfully while we offer the majority of our live plant offering nationwide, we are unable to ship plugs, begging plants and tender vegetable plants to the following areas: HS, IV41-IV49, IV51, IV55-56, KW15-KW17, PA34, PA41-48, PA60-PA78, PA80, PH40-PH44, TR21-TR24, ZE1-ZE3. One of the best DIY flower tower ideas to follow for limited space gardeners who want to grow so many plants in so little space. Grab a few plastic pots, a metal rod, and of course quality potting soil and your favorite flowering plants. Read the instructions here! 6. DIY Decorative Flower Tower Polka dot pots alone are so beautiful, this tipsy flower tower can add color and elegance to any space you keep it in. See the tutorial here! 11. Self Watering Flower TowerThis forest of green is more like a Green Power Tower – no overt flowers – but it will really make a statement on your patio or balcony or porch. And it will identify you as a foodie. Because this incredible DIY project is a Food Forest Tower. The third pot will be skewed at a different angle resting on the soil of the second pot, making sure it is positioned with the metal pole going through its base. Fill this one with soil too and leave a clear two inches at the top to avoid soil spillage. From WallyGro comes this clever vertical design. It’s portable! Extremely portable – so you can move it easily. For that ultimate rustic style, consider using some old metallic primitive pots to create a gorgeous flower tower. Learn more here! 3. Topsy Turvy Pumpkin Flower Tower Dobies strives to ensure that all its plants are delivered to you in the perfect condition for planting. While the majority of our nursery plants cope well with slight delays in intransit, sadly, the time it takes to deliver to certain locations in the UK means that we can't guarantee this for some of our smaller plug products and tender bedding and vegetable lines, which do not respond well to the extra journey time. So regretfully while we offer the majority of our live plant offering nationwide, we are unable to ship plugs, begging plants and tender vegetable plants to the following areas: HS, IV41-IV49, IV51, IV55-56, KW15-KW17, PA34, PA41-48, PA60-PA78, PA80, PH40-PH44, TR21-TR24, ZE1-ZE3.