age, upcycle it! There are tons of ways to give an old ladder a new life as a functional piece of art.

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added potting soil. Started plugging in pieces of plants I had. Voila! I am happy with it. It is a work in progress. It is free standing in full sun. The fun thing is I can put shade loving plants on the second or third tier and I can plug in plants that like to run into the sides of the cage. I also have a few little frogs hanging around if you look real hard. The airplane plants just shoot out, and the coleus on top just brightens it up (when the grasshoppers aren't too hungry.)

Looking at this does anyone know what this was originally used for? It is a cage with three openings on one side, but cage all the way around.

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black & white stripes. I put a big light turquoise heart in the center because red would be too obvious.

No, really, because I am loving turquoise this year, so why not a blue heart?

Anyway, I think it turned out really funky and fun.