CD difference?

One of the most popular sections on this site is Recycled Items for the Garden, so I just thought I'd mention that one of my favourite ideas from Hampton Court Flower Show this year was these garden ornaments. 

Perhaps it's through the "benefit" of myopia that I was fooled by the materials, but only after ten unsuspecting minutes talking to Alex Bell, who designed The Deptford Project: An Urban Harvest, did I realise (OK, he had to tell me) that they're created from empty CD cases.

Painted on the inside in graduated shades of colour, they're surprisingly effective. Of course, these towers are inspired by towers of glass of the sort that I've blogged about before, and (feel free to disagree) I think this is one the most successful ways I've seen to recycle plastic in the garden.

Comments

[Fred O'Callaghan]

Thank you for your recognition of one's freedom to disagree. I hope you won't therefore think it rude of me when I say that a mere look at the accompanying photo gives me the horrors!

[Helen Gazeley]

Hi, Fred
Thank you very much for commenting - don't think it's rude at all. And I do see your point about the towers. In the Deptford Project they were in amongst other verticals and the sunlight coming through the back lit up the colours quite effectively. On a dull day, not so sure... And I think, unlike stone and wood, glass and plastic have to be absolutely sparkling clean or they can look tired and tacky. What does anyone else think? Does plastic ever look good in the garden?