If you check and repair your flower pots after the winter months, you will find that one or the other pot has frost damage in the form of cracks. Often a shard has broken out. Instead of throwing away the pot, you can make a new decorative object out of it.

Succulents also grow in shards of flower pots

Use of broken flower pots

Destroyed clay or terracotta pots do not have to end up in the trash. You can use the shards as drainage material in other flower pots. Clay shards are collected at recycling centers as filling material for muddy paths.
These are reasonable uses for broken clay pots. But you can also use the shards in your own garden, for example as plant markers. You write the name of the seed on the larger shards and put them next to the rows of plants as a clue.

Planting broken flower pots

Damaged pots can also be planted.

  1. Fill the pot with potting soil up to where the shard has broken out and put a small plant in the front area, for example a succulent or a mini ivy, which can spread to the front.
  2. Put another shard behind the plant, which is now a little higher and forms a new floor.
  3. Fill in the soil again here and plant a second plant.
  4. As the third plant level, place a small flower pot behind the second plant.
  5. Refill this pot with soil and add another flower or greenery that matches the style.
  6. You can embellish the spaces between the individual levels with decorative stones, moss or colored bark mulch.

Instead of flowers, various herbs are also suitable for planting. Create a kind of herb spiral with chives, parsley and basil on the plant levels.

Creation of mini or fairy gardens

Instead of a flower arrangement or herb spiral, you can also conjure up a fairy garden in the broken pot. However, in addition to small plants, you will need other decorative material, such as

  • various decorative stones
  • Miniature bricks as stair steps
  • small houses
  • possibly dolls
  • moss
  • tree bark
  • dry branches

Start with the fairy garden similar to the terraced flower planting, arranging the shards to create multiple tiers. Connect the floors with small winding stairs and let mosses, mini plants, stones and decorative figures create a fairytale fairy world on each floor.

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Garden design