Avid recycler Steven Wells has gone above and beyond to build a sustainable and beautiful garden.
It’s hard to keep your eyes off some of the more bizarre recycled objects in Steven Wells’ garden: valve handles from irrigation pipes, porcelain insulators from electricity cables, a slide, fuel canisters, kitchen scales, terracotta drain pipes.
Wells, who will appraise our most innovative recycling habits for the competition that runs until the end of August, is the sort of person who saves the lids of long-gone galvanised rubbish bins and squashes them flat, drills holes in their bases and turns them into growing spaces for succulents. When his recycled-wine-barrel planters finally bit the dust he kept the metal rings that once secured the wooden slats and turned them into sculptural objects.
While Wells has no room for stockpiling and takes a more decorative approach, he is similarly systematic. He has made “frames” for his father’s old spanners and wrenches and hangs them, like pictures, on outdoor walls and fences. Outdoor ‘display cabinets’ house his collections of salvaged bottles and tins.As well as the patina of age, Wells likes the thrift involved and the idea that all these materials would otherwise be headed to landfill.
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