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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