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March Digital Sampler - Modern Gardens

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We love to make...<br />

Each issue, we bring you easy ideas and quick makes. This month,<br />

we create cheap and cheerful SPRING CONTAINERS<br />

30<br />

MINUTES<br />

GEOMETRIC<br />

BOWL<br />

Bold patterns are bang<br />

on-trend and will show off<br />

your plants in style<br />

£4.25<br />

YOU WILL NEED<br />

✽ Plastic mixing bowl<br />

✽ Blue Hawk Quick Set Cement<br />

Bucket, £3.25/2.5kg homebase.co.uk<br />

✽ Empty yogurt pot<br />

✽ Fine sandpaper<br />

✽ Masking tape<br />

✽ Wilko Emulsion Paint Tester Pot Jelly<br />

Bean, £1/75ml wilko.com<br />

✽ Paint brush<br />

WORDS: EMMA HOWCUTT-KELLY. PHOTOS: EMMA HOWCUTT-KELLY, LIVING4MEDIA<br />

WHAT TO DO<br />

1 Grease the bowl with cooking oil.<br />

2 Mix up the cement following the instructions<br />

on the packet, making sure it’s smooth and free<br />

from lumps.<br />

3 Put the bowl on a level surface and pour in<br />

just enough cement to cover the bottom of the<br />

mixing bowl.<br />

4 Place the yogurt pot in the centre to create<br />

a hole for planting and fill the gap around it with<br />

the remaining cement.<br />

5 Leave the cement to set overnight. Once<br />

dry, remove the plastic bowl and pull out the<br />

yogurt pot. Sand off any rough edges.<br />

6 Using masking tape, mark off a geometric<br />

pattern of triangle shapes.<br />

7 Paint the unmasked areas. Once dry, peel off<br />

the tape.<br />

8 You’re now ready to add your plant of choice.<br />

We’ve used pretty double-flowered kalanchoe<br />

with moss around the edges.<br />

TIP Greasing the inside of<br />

the bowl with oil will make<br />

removing it easier<br />

4<br />

82 MODERN GARDENS MARCH 2018

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