Pallet garden extravaganza

If one enjoys growing plants... what does one do with a small walled concrete garden? That's what we wondered when we moved house (again!) and found ourselves in charge of about two square meters of concrete outside space surrounded by walls.

Especially if one's budget is tight...

We ended up resorting to what seems to be the craze of upcycling nowadays... pallets... to try and make some 'vertical gardens'.

So here are two of the five pallets we so gratefully received free of charge from a very kind colleague of Dan's:

We used the pallets as holders for plant pots. And added a little colour!

I said the budget was tight so there was not much room for buying extravagant paints. We used some cheap leftover white paint to paint the outer frame, and bought very small tester pots of coloured paint to decorate.

Below you can see the best part of the very small outside space we have available. 

 On closeup, one pallet is decorated with abstract flowers, another with garden bugs:

And also by the third wall some geometric creatures:

On a long wall that only gets sunshine on its upper side, we hanged another pallet decorated with folk motifs (with thanks to our nice neighbours who didn't mind the hooks over our common wall):

Finally, we harvested a few slats from a pallet and made two hanging boxes for pots:

Sure makes for a nicer view out the window than the blank white wall!