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I’m absolutely gutted.  The winds have taken my garden chair and knocked my plant pots off the decking smashing all but one.I’m absolutely gutted. The winds have taken my garden chair and knocked my plant pots off the decking smashing all but one. The pots were my Mams who passed away 2 years ago. Gardening never interested me before and I’d kill a plant just by looking at it when she died I took her pots and bench and painted them up. I also took her Lily plants and decided I’d give gardening a go. Since then I’ve loved trying to do my garden up and it’s a place I feel like my Mam is around. Especially when the butterflies visit  I’m absolutely gutted they’ve all smashed  Any ideas of what I could make with the smashed bits? Something mosaic effect. I can’t bring myself to throw them  

Answer 1

If you like succulents, something like this looks nice, also super easy to care for :)

Answer 2

Definitely a fairy garden, it will look lovely with plants and maybe some lights. x

Answer 3

As they were your late Mum's, this might be a nice idea:

Answer 4

Have a go at a fairy garden a lot of people make these out of broken pots and would be something to cherish in future years have a google of them xx

Answer 5

Your mum proud of you and your garden, and now telling you to start a new journey with your own amazing new pot :) she's with you all the time, or maybe she wants to move to a fairy house  

Answer 6

As Sarah said, if you can manage a jigsaw then mend and possibly paint.  

Answer 7

Maybe you could glue them back together the way the Chinese do and make them more beautiful by adding gold paint to the cracks xx sorry this has happened so sad xx

Answer 8

Take a deep breath Start again using as much of your Mams pieces Good luck

Answer 9

Ok take the pots and make fairy gardens google for ideas all is not lost x

Answer 10

Aww that so sad. some people do broken balancing pots on top of each other. or do a mozaic wiv tiles . ideas on google cud help u. x

Answer 11

Fairy gardens in your flower beds

Answer 12

Ur garden is lovely and your mam would be very proud of what u have done x

Answer 13

Maybe a waterfall type thing xx  

Answer 14

Make a rockery in put rocks between the broken pots an plant flowers in the gaps x

Answer 15

I put plants in broken pots laid down .  

Answer 16

My sister covered a bird box with my portmeorion bowl that she broke lol. I love it  

Answer 17

Bless you hope you can mend the pots

Answer 18

Reuse the bits hun

Answer 19

You could do something like this? xx

Answer 20

Please don't fret what's done is done, a lot of good suggestions on here to help you restore them, you have created a beautiful garden in memory of your mum and I am sure you will be inspired as to what to do.  

Answer 21

I’ve see these fairy gardens . not done one my self

Answer 22

Try and glue some of them back together xx

Answer 23

Is it possible. You could super glue them l do whe my smash

Answer 24

Make a fair garden they do some realy good ideas with broken pots. Hope you sort it x

Answer 25

Make a rockery

Answer 26

So sad to hear this. Maybe you could make a water feature (the solar ones are good) and have the flowers, if you can, in the gaps between the broken pots. Then you could the sound of trickling water and beautiful flowers and butterflies too. X

Answer 27

Don’t be sad use them for something else like a mosaic for the garden xx

Answer 28

Just an idea x

Answer 29

You can glue your pots hun, monty dom does xx

Answer 30

Aw. That's really upsetting. Have you seen Kintsugi? It's the Japenese art of repairing pottery with gold. I think it's lovely.  

Answer 31

Mosiac heart.  

Answer 32

Make some fairy gardens with the broken plant pots some pic ideas on google . :
https://www.google.co.uk/search

Answer 33

Google kitsungi they would look lovely

Answer 34

Look up kintsugi; the Japanese art of fixing broken crockery with gold, thereby highlighting it instead of hiding it. You could still save those pots if the pieces are large enough x good luck

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@seagraves love this

Answer 35

Make them into fairy gardens

Answer 36

Maybe repot the plant and smash the pieces up smaller and stick onto a new plain pot like mosaic. So sad I hope you do something nice x

Answer 37

I use broken pots, plates all my broken ceramics as borders to keep weeds out. Adds color to the garden as well

Answer 38

Aww gutted for you . I'd make a fairy garden with the pieces xx

Answer 39

Hello sue if possible get yourself a budleiea plant they are beautiful . they attract lots of butterflies in summer. So when you see them you will always think of your mum x

Answer 40

Keep moving foward, your doing great, some lovely inspiration to look at here, be kind to yourself, a testament to you for looking at a resolution as opposed to the problem, I'm sure your mum would be very proud indeed x

Answer 41

Are they big enough to wire encase them back together, to make it a feature

Answer 42

Aww that's so sad x

Answer 43

I would try and glue them and paint some pretty patterns on them, so sorry for you, sodding wind !  

Answer 44

Oh no that's a shame duck . x

Answer 45

Mosaic butterfly to go on the wall xx

Answer 46

Oh no snapped my tomato plants they were about 12 inch high and i did them inhouse from seed, never listen to my own advice and wait till June my chairs knocked mine off decking but they are metal well sad for you

Answer 47

Make a new one or two from broken bits I'm sure you can do that it will be therapeutic to see some good appear from this a unique piece for you xx

Answer 48

Aw sorry this happened  I’ve seen how people fix broken pots back up. maybe you can do something like this.  

Answer 49

Make a fairy ‍♀️ garden pot with the broken bits, Pinterest has done lovely ideas, and you get to keep the pots then x

Answer 50

Aww maybe you could use the broken pieces, spray them your mums fav colours and do a mosaic for a table, mirror or make a bird bath.  

Answer 51

Mosaic or fair garden xx

Answer 52

Yea make a fairy garden so sorry hun don't throw them away hun you will sort it hun xx

Answer 53

Glue them back together x

Answer 54

Use them to make fairy gardens.  

Answer 55

Are any salvageable enough for something like this?  

Answer 56

Aww no, im absolutely gutted for you, i lost my mum two years and i know i would be absolutely heartbroken  

Answer 57

So sad for you. extra strong glue or maybe mosaic butterfly?.  

Answer 58

You could try out kintsugi especially as they're so special to you?  
https://holly.co/shop/product/kints...-kit/

Answer 59

If not broken in a million bits then superglue them back together.  

Answer 60

Make a picture from the pieces with a picture of her in the middle

Answer 61

Ah no  

Answer 62

Ohhh what a shame, I agree you should be able to glue them xx

Answer 63

Bless you like carla said do a fairy garden blooming wind hope you manage to do something with them. I sure you will picture when you have done .  

Answer 64

Use them to make a water fountain or fairy garden hun xxxxx

Answer 65

Some of the suggestions above are great, make half pots with some trailing flowers, if you cant salvage them and stick them back, it's the sentimental things that get to you more. I realy hope you can do something with them.  

Answer 66

Aw that’s really sad  

Answer 67

Heartbreaking . You must keep them . How about glueing them to plastic pots to make decorative pots as a memory of your mum . X Whatever you make it will be very special again xx

Answer 68

U don't need to throw them Get a new solid pot put all the really broken bits at the bottom of the pot, 3/4 fill pot & put the next big bit of pot in middle, then as compost and continue adding bits in a stack. Plant up with little plants rockery one's might be good. Put it in a corner before u start so it's protected I'll see if I can find a picture for u.  

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Design ur own U can do herbs in it too x Hope this helps u Hun x

Answer 69

Like they are as a water feature, plant in the cracks x

Answer 70

Some are doing water features with them or fairy garden maybe x

Answer 71

You could glue them back together, wrap them in string glue it in place and either leave it or paint the string, that way you still have the pots but won’t see the joins, little tip if your leaving it stringy use a coat of clear varnish to seal and weather proof it.  

Answer 72

Lots of people have smashed them up into little pieces and made stepping stones by pressing them into cement in circle shaped like in a cake tin for example

Answer 73

I'm so sorry what a horrible thing to happen to you after all your hard work Cruel

Answer 74

So annoying. Your garden is beautiful

Answer 75

Maybe something like this x

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@eidson exactly what I was going to say! Xxx

Answer 76

Oh I am so sad for your but you can make something nice with pieces. I had a little bowl water feature my dad bought me and a pigeon broke it but I put some nice pebbles in and pump still worked so could you use pieces with a pump SOLAR and bowl

Answer 77

One of my cousins shared this photo the other day - could you maybe do something like this?  

Answer 78

Theres some great ideas on pinterest!  

Answer 79

Or use the really small pieces as markers

Answer 80

Oh that’s so sad  . maybe you could create a table top out of them as a mosaic and then it would be like everytime you sat at it with a drink it would be like a bit of ur Mum is with you xx

Answer 81

Rockery x

Answer 82

Saw something where they had broken plates, glued them back together and instead of trying to hide the cracks the painted with a gold/ metallic paint looked nicer than it sounds. Then you get to keep the pots.