Finally, a great idea for wagon wheels that doesn't look Southwestern!

This super idea came from my visit to the world famous Chelsea Flower show in England.  It illustrates that low cost ideas are to be found in high brow places.

Antique wagon wheels or those like this one which came from old factory machinery, can become a really lovely small space herb and greens garden. 

In making this they used chimney masonry bricks with holes in them underneath the edge of the wheel.  This raises the edge up higher to give it a more attractive look and allows additional soil.  Bricks were set on their sides so the holes open horizontally for improved drainage.  Then the wheel was laid on top and staked in the middle to keep it from shifting.

For eveyrone living near abandoned factories in the north and east, these are gems to be found.