If you check and repair your flower pots after the winter months, you will notice that one or two pots have frost damage in the form of cracks. Often a shard has broken out. Instead of throwing away the pot, you can create a new decorative object out of it.
How to plant a broken flowerpot?
To plant a broken flower pot, fill it with potting soil, add plants such as succulents or herbs, and create multiple levels with broken shards. Decorate the spaces with decorative stones, moss or colored bark mulch.
Using broken flower pots
Destructed clay or terracotta pots do not have to end up in the trash. The shards can be used as drainage material in other flower pots. At recycling centers, pottery shards are collected as filling material for muddy paths. These are sensible ways to use broken clay pots. But you can also use the shards in your own garden, for example as plant markers. Write the name of the seed on the larger shards and place them next to the rows of plants as a reference.
Planting broken flower pots
Planting in damaged pots is also still possible.
- Fill the pot up to where the shard has broken out with potting soil and place a small plant in the front area, such as a succulent or a miniature ivy, which can spread to the front.
- Insert another shard behind the plant, which will now be a little higher and form a new floor.
- Fill in soil here again and plant a second plant.
- As the third planting level, place a small flower pot behind the second plant.
- Fill this pot again with soil and insert another flower or green plant that matches the style.
- 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 on the plant levels with chives, parsley and basil.
Creating 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 also need other decorative materials, such as
- various decorative stones
- Miniature bricks as steps
- little houses
- possibly dolls
- Moss
- Tree bark
- dry branches
Start with the fairy garden in a similar way to the terraced flower planting and arrange the shards so that several levels are created. Connect the floors with small winding stairs (€12.00 on Amazon) and create a fairytale fairy world on each floor using mosses, mini plants, stones and decorative figures.
