Out in the back of our yard we have a cleanout for our septic system that’s this terrible, ugly, white PVC pipe that sticks up out of the grass.  I put a plastic planter around it so I would hopefully not hit it with the tractor and tried to get wildflowers to grow, but they never did.  Eventually I buried a cheap amazon bird feeder pole and hung 2 bird feeders.  Because I’m cheap sometimes and deserve to be punished, all 3 of those things eventually broke so I decided to start the whole project over and do it correctly!  I left the planter around the clean out pipe because someday I’ll put a real plant in it.  Now I needed a much stronger bird feeder pole! As it turns out, Lowe’s now has a selection of pipe and fittings meant to be used to make things out of and not convey fluids. I made my feeder pole with a tee, pipe, and they even had some nice little hooks that went on the end! Then I needed a way to hold this thing up because burying it in dirt wasn’t cutting it.  We settled on buying a second (much nicer) wood barrel planter and filling it with concrete to set the pole in!

I can’t just have 2 barrels sitting out in the middle of my yard so I decided to add a little flower bed around them both because the birds drop seeds and it’ll turn into a wildflower garden anyway whether I want it to or not!

I keep digging up wildflowers that I find and planting them in the bed, along with whatever the clearance cart at Lowe’s provides! Eventually it should fill out and be a nice little area for birds and butterflies and pollinators!