I love my buckets of fake plants. Decor judges do your worst. It's supposed to be one of the most horrible things you could do in the rules of home decor.
I don't care. You would go fake too if you spent nearly four years trying to put some green life in this:
This spot is a brick wall on our garage. My sister gave me those decor boxes when we moved in and I spray-painted them white myself then. I had them hung high so that they would be a welcoming sight from the gate when our car pulls up. I wanted that spot to greet me "welcome home! love, your plants".
Unfortunately they never held any living thing for long.
I found those fake lemongrass-y things two years ago in Rustan's Flower Shop and bought them out. They were
horribly expensive but didn't look too fake. Worth it.
Especially when I had so much fun in the last two years with them:
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| Christmas buckets from Rustan's |
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| The buckets held mini Christmas trees last year |
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| Halloween buckets. I painted those pumpkin lanterns four years ago and they are still amazingly intact. |
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| Awesome Guy found the buckets in Pioneer Supermarket for 130 pesos each. I love them! |
And today they are as healthy as ever:
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| Pretty aluminum plant pots from Ikea, and a long awaited makeover of the grills on top |
I'm still trying to crack Project Green (the real deal) inside the house, because we need some healthy air inside. But for this spot, I love this practical solution.
Now when I pull up the car to the driveway, that spot says "outsmarted us, you modern thinking woman! love, your plants". And it's just the warm fuzzy feeling I need.
Seriously, how do you have time to do all these? Love them though! The plants and especially the Halloween buckets! Even the green brick wall, actually. :)
ReplyDeleteI don't have time nga - that's why it took two years to capture the photos for this post ;)
DeleteI have the same problem. Indoor plants always die on me! The only one that works for me is the ubiquitous rubber plant (or welcome plant) which grows like a beast without me doing anything special to it (water only once a week, propogate by snapping off a single leaf and sticking it in soil).
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