Peter Donegan Garden Design & Landscaping
In the middle of an industrial estate located on the Robinhood Road, on the southside of Dublin, walled in on all four sides, lay a space that became a garden.
On a slight side note before I start, the image below looks a bit like a photo negative, now, in comparison, but as with all great garden spaces it really is the people that make them greater. I’ll come back to that bit in a minute.
Building a garden recently I was asked for something unusual as a feature for the garden. My imagination being what it is, the idea coming to mind is never a problem. It is however a problem for some clients [?] when they can’t see what has never existed before and ultimately a level of trust and/ or a pre-requisite of an also zany imagination is necessary. The alternate. Buy something off the shelf.
On this occasion it was a small garden. The red dead tree was referred to and also I was told….
I want something that is different, unique, unusual, practical, not 17th century type symetry, a little bit out there… but it’s got to be a looker…
Like I always said the rollling stones on vinyl may cost a fiver second hand… but will always be better than than the €50 double cd remastered
Of course, as simple as it may sound, there’s actually about 3 days work in this thing. The main issue being that it would hold upright with it being so top heavy and the fact that the pipe supporting was not straight…. that said I think it’s really cool.
View more images of the Red Exhaust Pipe Bird Feeder here
What I had done, with my good friend and welder genius George was to take the replacement exhaust pipe for my Daewoo Musso jeep [a 2.5 merc engine btw], give it a labotomy in an attempt to reduce the weight of the combustion chamber; weld some re-bar and other bits to the base so that concrete-less it would still stand upright; paint it burning red and rivet some refelective metal to it allowing us to hook in a bird feeder… then we dropped it into a new look and rebuilt garden…. of course there was a lot more to it than that…. but you get my gist 😉
I wanted a bird bath for my ‘wild’ fruit garden area
remember my very dead [& red] tree….?
remember my long grass under the fruit trees….?
I found a satellite and had some paint left over….
I also needed a bird bath… 😉
And I fancied a little ACDC….
It makes me smile in the morning 🙂
Here’s how it was all done…. enjoy!
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I had seen this somewhere before… anyhow. If you are bored & need a little….
there ye are luv, sure that looks grand now… wha’ ?
….a little perking up, so to speak then this is for you. If the tree is dead, painting it a *wild* colour does 3 things….
Just make sure and use an outdoor paint for wood…. that’s what trees are made of & and if you don’t like it after you paint it you can always chop it down ….. Go on go wild this weekend… you know you want to 😆
ps: i waited ’til her indoors was gone to do the shopping and put the music up quite loud….. great fun…. while it lasted!!
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