Where did they go? I have a shade garden at the back of my lot. I have always
had a white plastic birdbath there because I love the graceful shape and it
shows up nicely when the grey or tan ones do not. I usually have to replace
the top or the whole thing about every 3 years but this year I can't find any.
The only one I found does not have the removeable top. If you can't put stones
in the base you might as well not have one as they tip readily.

Marilyn in soggy Ohio

Could you improvise with a large white bowl and an old pedestal lavatory
bottom? I've done this with a ceramic birdbath whose pedestal the movers broke
(and a year later, I had to replace the old lavatory but kept the pedestal,
so....) This also gets around the problem of tipping, as the pedestals (check
your local architectural salvage place) are quite heavy.
zemedelec

In article ,
pamfree (Zemedelec) wrote:

Could you improvise with a large white bowl and an old pedestal lavatory
bottom? I've done this with a ceramic birdbath whose pedestal the
movers broke
(and a year later, I had to replace the old lavatory but kept the pedestal,
so....) This also gets around the problem of tipping, as the pedestals (check
your local architectural salvage place) are quite heavy.
zemedelec

Although on the surface of it it sounds potentially tacky, I've seen
vintage bathroom sinks used as garden planters to surprisingly attractive
effect, & it ought to work just as well as a birdbath. Plus since you'd
just be using the pedestal with an actual bowl on top, then no one would
even know it was once a sink, & I can just about picture it being much
nicer than nine out of ten commercially made birdbaths. In fact I think it
sounds wonderfuly clever & I'll likely be looking at salvage-store sink
pedestals a bit differently now, especially as I've lately been pondering
the possibilities of container-gardening with drought-tolerant plants that
might not suffer if I forget to water the troughs & containers often
enough.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
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On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:14:08 -0700, (paghat)
wrote:

I've seen
vintage bathroom sinks used as garden planters


Yah, me too, usually next to a bathtub sunk on end with a BVM statue
stuck in it.


tomj