Pink Tricycle Planter

I have always loved a creative garden with unexpected things used as planters, lots of color and as my husband calls it an “Ozarky” look.  He is always having to hold me back from making our garden the junk yard of the neighborhood.  You can imagine his surprise, shock, disappointment when I told him I would be putting an old tricycle on our front porch as planter.  However, he is always a good sport and lets me do my own thing up to a point.  The “junk” (my treasures) in the garden was acceptable, but bringing it to the front porch was another story.  I assured him it would be tasteful and bring a feel of whimsy to the front of the house.  (I am not sure that helped my case or not.)  He kept his opinion until the planter was complete. Seriously? It’s a trike we can move it if it is too much of an “Ozarky” eye sore.

This is how the trike started out.  I purchased it at an estate auction last year for $10 knowing that I could come up with some kind of fun way to use it.  Some might say that it was just fine as it was, but I was inspired by a couple of photos on Pinterest.

These bikes, can be found here and here, gave me the idea of painting the tricycle completely pink.  How could that be wrong I ask?

After painting the trike watermelon pink with my favorite Krylon spray paint. I searched around in my stash and found containers to do my planting in and then proceeded to wire them to the tricycle so that they would not blow away in the crazy Kansas wind.

I love planting containers and getting my hands dirty.  The satisfaction and reward of well planted flowers is the best.

My little pink trike is the cutest planter around and Jeff and decided that it can stay on the front porch as it turned out lot better than he thought that it would.  I am not sure why, after all these years, he questions, my creative processes.

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Comments

[Sydney]

Your bike/trike project was the best of all 3 pictured. LOVE it! It definitely has that touch of "whimsy" and is absolutely unique. Why would anybody want to look just like the neighbors?

[Audra @ Renewed Projects]

Oh my goodness, this is TOO CUTE! What a fun and whimsical way to brighten up any patio. Love!

[Parrish (Life With The Crust Cut Off)]

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[Annie]

Wow this looks great! And the containers you choose are perfect match!

[T'onna]

Wow! The tricycle looks amazing! It's amazing what a coat of paint can do! I love the shade of pink you chose, and it just looks great. I'm pinning this! Love it!

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[Sue]

These are all pretty but I really like the tricycle because I have one. All the grands have outgrown it and I am going to fix it up like this one. Thanks for the post.

[Margo]

This is absolutely adorable! Would love to have you link it up tonight at my link party which starts at 9:00pm EST at: joyfulhomemaking.com !

[Ali Kane]

I'm interested in making this planter for the fall....

Question: Did you disassemble it when you spray painted it? Also, how did you ensure the front wheel wouldn't pivot or did you leave it as is?

[Lucia Grassi]

Dear Judy Sturman, i'm Lucia from Switzerland and i use one of your beautiful pictures in our corporate upcycling blog: http://magazin.tutti.ch/willkommen-in-der-velowerkstatt/. Of course it’s linked to your site. I would like to promote this post now on facebook with your picture (ad campaign) and will ask you with this mail for your agreement. You would benefit from the additional traffic we could get on the post with this campaign. It would be very cool to get a positive answer from you!

Many greetings from here. Lucia

[Judy Sturman]

Lucia,

You have my permission to use the photos from this blog post. How fun to know that folks from Switzerland are enjoying my Pink Tricycle Planter.

Judy@InHisGrip