Using an old metal boat as yard decor

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Any ideas to make an old metal boat a focal point in yard with flowers???

Janet Pizaro · Answer

Can you post a picture so we can answer correctly.Do you have SUN-SHADE?

KatAych · Answer

You mean something like this?

Ree · Answer

the boat unto itself can be a work of art - just fill the boat with dirt and plant a lot of flowers and vegetables!

Gail Salminen · Answer

@karen actually pics of your backyard and the boat would yeild better suggestions. What I would check for are blank spots in the backyard that would be enhanced by a boat feature. Perhaps beside a shed or a corner of the backyard, even in the middle of a flower bed. If you search out boat ideas for the yard on this site you could get some great ideas. I have seen them used for flowers as well as ponds. Hope you post pics for the before and after.

Janet Pizaro · Answer

Actually that is as far as I am concerned the only way this question can be answered.As previously stated.

Sharon Wright · Answer

This is what I'd do. First take some of husbands old clothes, use a waterproof spray(get in sporting section at wal-mart) and use on clothes so they don't get wet. When they dry stuff and make the look like a man sitting in the boat. Put a fishing pole in what would be hands. Fill boat with different flowers, adding things like a fish and maybe a frog and turtle.
This would just get you started. Have fun.

Jonnie Hammon · Answer

I would fill the boat with flowers, or herbs, and have a seating arrangement around it.

Vicki · Answer

What about a small fountain and water garden?

Cathy · Answer

I think I would surround the bottom with rocks that you might paint different shades of blue. the idea of a person sitting in it is cute but might be difficult to maintain---you could always put flowers in it in pots so that they can be easily changed with the season---but it would be cute to put up a pole and attach a sail to create a central point.

Linda · Answer

If you have a rowboat-sized boat, rather than a cabin cruiser :-) a former restaurant here dug the front in to make the boat steady, surrounded it with rocks so it looked like it had foundered on the rocks, and filled with topsoil. They had perennials and annuals so it looked nice year round, and was watered by the rain.

Louise Adkins · Answer

I would place it on its side, might have to dig down in order to secure it  as the above reader stated.  Next, I would place planting soil and add something that flowers and spreads-like wave petunias.  PS...I would place it at an angle towards the side of the yard.  Best wishes...

Bobbie Littlefield · Answer

Pick a theme (any theme) and stick to it through out the yard- it will come together. Start with a simple color palate and carry the colors with you so impulse buying isn't a problem. Lots you can do with boats - Pirate theme, cape cod theme, fishing harbor theme, wreck on the seas, tropical island (boat up or on it's side into a fountain), etc. Seal the wood appropriately,

Duv310660 · Answer

I'd have to see a pic to be serious, so here is a fun response: bury the boat point-up, rudder down to make a niche for whatever you wish to celebrate by standing it in there (Ganesha, ScoobyDoo, Saint of your choice, Memorial to a dead pet, etc.). Finish off by making a 'cornucopia' type planting that is flowing down and out of the niche and into the surrounding garden.

Linda · Answer

Leslie, I think you are right, filling could get expensive if you are using high grade bagged or delivered topsoil. I'd probably use regular dirt (we live in the country, and it is plentiful) then put the bagged topsoil on top. This restaurant I talked about had small shrubs (azalea, etc.) too, and those have root systems that would need more depth, and probably some nutrients in the soil. It's all in what you want to plant, and for me, using what is available. Your ideas would work great on shallow-rooted plants!!

Ely2512234 · Answer

Saw it in half length wise.    Dig small hole to anchor in place and plant away.

Tammy France Barnett · Answer

I would bury it below the soil and make an amazing water lily pond out of it.

Cindi · Answer

I saw a boat turned into a bookcase once, you could do something like that for potted plants. You could also use it for a garden to plant veggies, that would be different.

Laurie · Answer

Fill with cushions and have a great bed for tanning.

Terri David · Answer

I turned my old aluminum row boat into a pond by filling it with water and added a small pump fountain in the center. The sound of the water draws birds to it.

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