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In a recent post at Radmegan: In Words and Pictures, crafty blogger Megan described improvising watering globes out of glass Coke bottles. Watering globes, commercially sold as Aqua Globes, are basically inverted bottles that you fill with water and “slam into the moist soil”; they will slowly trickle water into your potted plants, a great solution for watering plants while you’re out of town or just busy. Megan also found that a Martinelli Cider bottle works well too (photos below).

We wondered: why use an ugly bottle with a label when there are so many beautiful glass bottles to be had? Why not figure out some pleasing-to-look at solutions? Our favorites for many years (and many purposes) are wine bottles with the labels soaked off, which allows you see their form: sensual, sculpture, subtly-colored. (We especially like the elongated bottles used for Albariño – a perfect summer wine from Spain. )

…We were also imagining inexpensive long-neck laboratory flasks that come in a variety of sizes…

…when we remembered an extraordinary hand-blown, round-bottomed bottle we saved after we drank the divine, small-batch Cava called Kripta we bought back from Spain many years ago. The producer, Augusti Torello felt that the unique wine should be drunk at one sitting, so made the bottle impossible to set down. It was so beautiful, we just couldn’t bear to part with it, and thought that one day we’d find a use for it, beyond memory-keeper.

To soak the label off a bottle, simply immerse it in a deep container of hot water to loosen the glue; then slip the label off.

…so many possibilities for making d-i-y ANYTHING stylish and original right there in front of you. All you have to do is look around.

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2 replies on “d-i-y plant watering globes (made beautiful with wine and other bottles)

  1. Thanks for letting us know about them.

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