Using Roof Tiles In The Garden

Or turn a tile into an electrified wall sconce.

Using roof tiles in the garden.

Even succulents look lovely planting in tiles. I love the idea of using roof tiles in your garden. It s probably the most tricky of all our diy ideas but the results will be worth it when you re done. What a very chic way to illuminate any room.

Roof tiles make a great reflective mulch for some garden plants. Using tiles in these areas will allow you create separate zones around your garden depending upon their use. Align them so each tile has its right edge inside the next tile and the left edge outside the previous tile. Use one colour or opt for a choice of shades and sizes of tiles to create a design you love.

The beauty of tiles is in the vast array of colours sizes and finishes they are available in allowing you to create a personalised and unique look. Concrete roof tiles used with reo to make a curved raised garden bed. When the bed is filled up with dirt the tiles are then self supporting. Their reflective properties in addition to the.

Here are some very beautiful examples of this. Turn roof tiles into candleholders. Leave boring paving slabs and gravel behind and take influence from eye catching moroccan architecture with a mosaic garden path. Tile garden decoration see how many charming decorations you can create with tiles and make your garden more beautiful and decorated.

Burying the tiles vertically in the soil so that they. Other uses for roof tiles mulch. The inner side of barrel roof tiles can be used to hold a candle. See more ideas about roof tiles roof tiles.

Look at the ingenious way one homeowner used leftover roof tiles to construct a raised garden bed. The recessed path is filled with thick mulch and acts as a infiltration basin to store water which wick up into the garden bed. Stick the slates vertically into the ground about 3 inches. Soil from the surrounding path is used to build the bed.

I saw raised flower beds made from old roofing slates. You can use similar tiles in certain spaces or complimentary styles for each zone.