I promised to share more pictures of some of the colourful, child-friendly tyre planters designs I found, so here goes!
It’s so nice to see several areas of back alley gardens springing up in Darwen. Perhaps they’ve been around for longer than I realise and it’s only these last months of roaming that have brought them to light; perhaps they’re the fruit of long local lockdowns.
I imagine it’s hard to appreciate how much difference little loving touches make to the way communities feel if you are not familiar with Lancashire towns. In terraced areas, neighbours count, and the ones who put a colourful planter outside their back yard walls are the best ones to live near.
Shared for Marsha and Cee’s Photographing Public Art Challenge.
Susan Rushton 
What fun! Maybe there’s hope for our species after all!
Fingers crossed – firmly crossed!
Creative and fun!
I liked their faces.
Recycled car tires, what an excellent and innovative idea. They looked so wonderful Susan.
I’ve seen a lot more tyre planters in Mississippi (tire planters, there), but they are becoming more popular over here.
Creative!
Aren’t they just?
Such fun
I’d have loved to have seen them being made.
These are so fun. Yay nice one Susan!
A good colour scheme too.
these are such fun, and yay for a second life for tyres
My sweetheart has a stack of tyres of decreasing sizes, painted green, which he calls his Christmas tree. If he’s feeling festive, he puts a star on top and some fairy lights.
oh I love this 🙂 brilliant
A great fun use of old tyres, they look really bright and cheerful 🙂
They do.
They are such fun 🙂
I’m glad you liked them.
It took a while but I just realised that WP had unfollowed me on your blog Susan 🤔
Oops! It does that now and again to me. They put the buttons in inconvenient places too where it’s easy to catch them by mistake and not realise. Welcome back!
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