Make your own birdbath in minutes
Birdbaths may seem not the norm when it comes to gardens, but birds can actually be beneficial to your garden and your flowerbeds. Birds will frequent your gardens and eat pesky bugs and a birdbath can attract those birds to help keep garden pest under control.
With a birdbath you are not only attracting regular birds, but you are also attracting hummingbirds as well and that can be very beneficial to your garden with their pollinating abilities. Here is a simple birdbath that can be constructing in minutes.
What you will need:
3 terra cotta flower pots, one large, one medium, and one small
Flower planter circular in shape
Permanent concrete patching compound
Extra large terra cotta pot, circular in shape, without a drain hole in it (Similar to the one pictured below)
What you will need to do:
First turn the larger terra cotta pot upside down and using the concrete patching compound, glue the smaller sized pot to the bottom of the larger. Make sure the bottom of the larger and the top of the smaller are lined up and match in diameter so the birdbath will be secure and will support the heavy bowl pot.
Next turn the medium-sized pot up right and using the concrete patching compound to secure the bottoms of the medium pot to the smaller pot. Similar to the picture below.
Allow to dry for 24 hours and place the bowl pot on top. You can glue in place or allow it to sit freely for easy cleaning.
These instructions can be altered in any way needed to suit your own taste. Make sure to place the birdbath on a stable area in your garden so that it won’t fall over when more than one bird sits on the edge.
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