Using old boiler flue in the garden

They will require a bit of stabilising, perhaps with a brick or concrete, but it's a possibility.

 

I think they'd be best sunk into the ground - at two different heights. That would stabilise them well and you can then fill and plant with something appropriate for your conditions.

 

Oh dear!
You could sink it below ground -but not say where (!), don't they say a garden shared is a garden halved......

 

@RowlandsCastle Do you have a garage or loft? If so problem solved you simply take the short bits of flue to either of these spaces and leave them there until either you have an idea for a use, or a friend says do you have a piece of flue.
This frees up the space in the garden shed for garden related items, keeps them out of the OH eye line, removes a potential trip hazard and allows you to concentrate on gardening instead of fretting about a use for two short bits of flue.

 

The problem with throwing stuff away is always that, three days later - you find a use for it!
I'm guilty of keeping stuff [get that from my Dad] so in the last five to ten years I've been trying to make myself chuck stuff instead of storing it. It's also very therapeutic.
Annoyingly, something I did throw out a while ago could have been used a couple of weeks afterwards.
The Law of Sod eh?

 

Thankfully they're not in the way in the shed (yet), but we have a good-sized "garden room" attached to the rear of the garage - but it's full!! That old desk in pieces really ought to go. Maybe I'll have a bonfire sometime, and collect the ashes to spread on the garden, or put in the compost.

The garage is full of - well, anything that I haven't got round to finding a home for. Yet!!


Things like secateurs and shears, garden knives and trowel, seem to have found a semi permanent home in the conservatory. I wonder who put them there!!

 

I knoww this is a bit late but I would group them all together and use in a water feature . The thin pipe I would use at different levels. Of course you may need a pump too . It's the sort of thing I would enjoy doing, husband d thinks I'm crazy...... maybe he is right And ............Don't Even Think About Agreeing With Him !!!!!!!
I will come and put it together for you

An other idea I would group them together add something weighty like rubble etc and add trailing plants if you just placed them in a pot which would fit nicely in the tubes . But remember to water. The tubes would reflex the sum but you could cover the outside with something like a poly filler . Leave them plain ,paint, or add something like shells ,pebbles ,even glass chippings The list is endless .....

 

Agree with your OH @Purple Streaks ?
Would I dare?

My wife is the artistic one. I don't think she's even noticed that they are in the shed, yet.

But thank you for the ideas. We ARE close to the sea - I can walk there in just about 20 minutes. Plenty of shells, free!

 

I'd be tempted to keep them as combination watering tubes/stakes when planting new trees...

 

I put a 4 feet length of plastic pipe upright in our Alpine House and planted a Baby Sun Rose at the top. It's almost reached the bottom already. Eventually you won't see the pipe, only a column of green foliage and red flowers.