1/2Concrete Garden Projects Easy & Inexpensive Containers, Furniture, Water Features & More by Malin Nilsson & Camilla Arvidsson makes it easy to create imaginative concrete forms, planters and bird baths. I have always thought that aged concrete features add beauty and age to a garden. It doesn't hurt to add a little moss to the planter and forms. This creates that 'I belong here because I have been here longer than you look'. I was inspired by this book to create concrete candles holders--to delineate a sidewalk or path--to hold incense sticks or votives.
While the first 3/4 of the book will give you ideas, the rest takes you step-by-step with colour pictures through the process of creating numbers, shoe scrappers, pots, bowls, large pots, stepping stones, table tops, birdbaths and much more. For my daughters they think that all these would be improved by glass beads and anything with garish colour. They forget that the garden plants are the focus of the garden and the plants are to show them off.
TimberPress has hit a home-run with Concrete Garden Projects Easy & Inexpensive Containers, Furniture, Water Features & More as the average & advanced gardener can create their own unique and interesting garden. I would like to create my own concrete Tardis and dye the concrete blue, but it would be too much work.
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Bruce
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