Jacqui Koukol of Sacramento shared this idea for using discarded light fixtures. She turned the old shades into flower pots.
Koukol planted a string of pearls (Senecio Herreianus), an easy-to-grow succulent, and an African violet in small peat pots, then tucked a peat pot inside each shade. Because the shades have holes where light bulbs originally screwed in, drainage is not a problem. "Watering them is easy," Koukol noted, "and they are thriving."
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