Metal Garden Planters Handmade Metal Window Boxes
Metal Garden Planters Handmade Metal Window Boxes

In many towns and villages around the UK you will often see this beautiful ironwork frames sitting underneath a stunning set off windows, usually the sash wooden framed ones, not your modern uPVC triple glazed designed to lock the world out. This image was taken last year, on a damp grey drizzling kind of day, the triple story house in question is undergoing a mammoth refurbishment, formerly a butchers with the thick wooden floor and huge shop windows on one side of the property, and the other corner the image you see attached, the “private” entrance to the living quarters, notice the railings at street level to the cellar, or coal store as it may well of been.  Anyway the reason for my picture…..  whilst this one was made from wood, I can very easily make one out of metal, to sit inside these ironwork frames? I can also make the metal boxes to sit either sit of the entrance door, to plant a clematis or ivy from. 

Of course you don’t need a fancy pants iron frame to hold a window box in order to breathe some life and colour into your windows, you just need a cill – here is an image from a very happy customer who loves gazing out of her kitchen window and seeing some flowers, some colour and not just her neighbours wall 

So, I do take commissions, I always try to manufacture out of the “scrap” pile to reduce our carbon footprint, so if you would like to inject some colour in your window cill, maybe grow some lettuce leaves or have some herbs on your window ledge, do drop me a line and let me help you get growing! 

Fiona
Welcome! I run my own small roofing business, and during the process of manufacturing Roofing and Cladding flashings (the bits on the roof which cover the edges of the sheets & the hide the joins) I noticed I was generating  a significant amount of waste metal. The scrap man would and did take it away,  but I felt I could do something more useful with it, after all it was a shame to throw so much away so I decided to try and make a box. This box became my office waste paper bin, to be fair it was then an easy leap in my mind to decide to on the bright idea of making them planters.Thus the garden planter / composter / herb garden was born.I now manufacture various sizes of Metal Garden Planters, in a variety of colours, and plain unfinished metal, plus the corrugated versions and sell them for countless uses. I say, I, because it is me who designs, cuts, measures, bending, drills, and packs each planter by hand, by myself. Each is unique, that is one reason why I name them, they aren’t mass imports, they are lovingly made by hand, individually and are built to last. To name some of my recent work, Car Park edging at School Outdoor space for various cafe's, bars, social clubs and pubs, I even created over 100 corrugated planters for a container artist village at the docks in London! Roof Terrace gardens in Bristol, Cardiff, & London Create Mini Front Gardens for various Terrace Houses around the Country Planters for Caravan Patios, custom made ones for the decoration of Hot Tubs, and to mask  the edging of Greenhouses I can make multi sized in depth, length and height planters for getting plants at different levels in the garden, whilst adding that splash of colour for a real contemporary feel. These also benefit those with kneeling or bending issues, as I can make waist height planters to ease the strain. Edging for Vegetable patches Capping for the top of Wooden Fence Panels and much moreMy name is Fiona, I aim to repurpose my waste metal, and enable those without garden space but with a window or accessible rooftop or terrace the opportunity to grow some veg, herbs or flowers.If you have a small space, some light, some water then you could grow fresh salad veg, or brighten up an area with flowers to encourage the dwindling bee population perhaps.Regardless of your need, I would love to hear from you if you would like something repurposed created for your space.happy planting! 

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