Birdbaths Aren't Just For Birds Anymore
I was getting a little tired of the endless cycle of filling my birdbath up, watching the birds splash around in it, the water turning fifty shades of grey green, me washing the disgusting gunk out of it (worms, poop, slime) and starting the whole process over again. So last summer I decided to turn it into a planter instead.
It's nothing permanent. I just used the bottom of a clay pot (the thing that catches the excess water) to hold the plants and it could be moved at any time that I wanted to water the birds again.
Edited to add 2/20/14 - Since I get so many people thinking I'm a bird hater or something, I'd like to add that there is plenty of water for them to splash in all around my yard. A pond is roughly fifty feet from that birdbath (which I turned back into a birdbath the next year) and there is also a huge body of water less than a city block from here. The birds are fine and thriving and currently eating me out of birdseed. I appreciate your concern for the birds, but no birds were harmed in the least :)
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It's nothing permanent. I just used the bottom of a clay pot (the thing that catches the excess water) to hold the plants and it could be moved at any time that I wanted to water the birds again.
Edited to add 2/20/14 - Since I get so many people thinking I'm a bird hater or something, I'd like to add that there is plenty of water for them to splash in all around my yard. A pond is roughly fifty feet from that birdbath (which I turned back into a birdbath the next year) and there is also a huge body of water less than a city block from here. The birds are fine and thriving and currently eating me out of birdseed. I appreciate your concern for the birds, but no birds were harmed in the least :)
MORE PHOTOS AND INSTRUCTIONS CAN BE FOUND ON THE BLOG.
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I did this to one of my birdbaths. It looks so pretty. My other birdbath has a paver in the middle of it and I put a spider plant on that when the weather warms up. The smaller birds can still get a drink while the crow that keeps leaving chicken bones and chunks of bread in there has to find somewhere else to dunk the garbage he raided! lol
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By the way... I have 2 Boston terriers and am from Ohio
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