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Water troughs for plants and flowers
make good water garden w/o digging a hole!
paint troughs. Check Home Depot or Lowe's for a variety of great shaped buckets - I use them to stash all kinds of things around the house. As long as they are on a shelf above eye level, they look neat and modern, and your mess is hidden! But I digress...poke some holes in the bottom and fill the bottom
used as water troughs for cattle. Some garden centers and specialty stores such as Porch here in Santa Barbara sell them as well. Hope that helps. They are fantastic!
Round troughs to match the oval troughs.
Galvanized watering troughtd
Round garden troughs
Using cow troughs for planters
water trough planters
planters.........water troughs for cattle.... feed
extra water and could get hot in the south. But for my zone 3 area, if they warm early that's good for me. These are called stock tanks and can be purchased online and at farm stores.
Did you add drains to these water troughs or do they come with a drain?
"galvanized water trough." These are available new through agricultural supply dealers.
Love the use of water troughs
I saw these when getting my goat trough but I thought they would get to hot here
kind of like the water slew, though think the design could be better, less finnicky
Nice idea to add element of water to sloped landscape
i like the way they brought the water down the hill with the metal pieces.
keep the water coming from the downspouts in New Hampshire from running straight into the lake and will help keep the flowers watered
Another Rill. I like the contemporary spin, using trough-like canals to form a many-layered waterfall
The water movement... Is not just another water feature...
just a water feature. In the Renaissance gardens of the Villa d'Este near Rome, rills were set into the center of long stone tables so that wine bottles could be cooled in the cold, flowing water. I have seen a modern version of this in Place Kléber in Strasburg, France, where raised wooden rills were