Recycling to make a beautiful garden feature!
I have always loved chimneas , but in the hot humid tropics any extra form of heat seems superfluous and in fact downright silly. We do however have mosquitoes, and at this time of the year always have mosquito coils burning....... along with a couple of citronella candles,....... along with personal insect repellent on really bad evenings. So.. I was eying these palm fronds that just lie around the bases of palm trees and end up in the landfill. I nabbed this one from a friend and voila - a tropical chimnea :) This is what it looked like in the raw... I cut the bottom end straight and glued it to a pot base. My hubby very kindly spray painted it with a terracotta colour spray paint. It puts out a lovely glowing light, the candle is protected from t he wind and best of all the outlay was a can of spray paint!