Flower growing in a discarded basket, a cookie tin, and an empty oil jug: the balcony is bursting with plants and flowers

For people who love growing flowers, they are always observing the things around them, wondering whether this or that could be used to grow plants. In fact, growing flowers does not cost much money. If you have no soil, you can go to the countryside and dig up some garden soil. If you have no flower pots, you can make your own. On the balcony, these homemade pots hold plants and flowers that grow with lush foliage and abundant branches.

Do not throw away the plastic cups you normally drink water from. Collect them and they make great seedling trays.

Just poke a small hole in the bottom and you can fill it with soil and sow seeds.

When transplanting, give it a gentle tap and the roots and soil come right out. It can also be reused. Simple and eco-friendly.

You can also use them to water-propagate pothos, spider plants, inch plants and the like. In the current weather, you can water-propagate some flowers and plants.

These are made from empty oil jugs. Just poke a hole in the bottom, using a nail to make the hole.

Very convenient. Fill it with soil and you can grow flowers.

This is a storage pocket from the back of a motorcycle. The depth is just right for growing flowers, and it can hold quite a few kinds of flowers too. It was picked up next to a trash can, and being new it works very well.

The basket normally used for fruit is just perfect for growing pothos. Once the pothos climbs and trails, it looks especially beautiful.

There are plenty of drink bottles at home. Just cut off the top half, fill it with soil, and it works great for sowing seeds and raising seedlings.

Cement buckets left over from renovation are very sturdy, even more durable than flower pots. Poke a few holes in the bottom and they are quite suitable for growing tough flowers, plants and succulents.

After cutting off the top half of a mineral water bottle, do not throw it away. When propagating cuttings from branches, put it over them to keep warmth and moisture, and they will root faster.

With a larger drink bottle, poke a few small holes in the middle section and it becomes a watering can. It is quite suitable for watering flowers.

A cookie tin is also not bad for growing a few simple green plants.

A plastic bottle that held dried fruit, without the lid, can be filled directly with water to water-propagate pennywort. The root growth can be seen very clearly, and in a few months it fills the whole container.

There are also foam boxes, discarded baskets and drink bottles, all of which can be used to grow flowers.

You will find that many things in life can be put to use, and they are very suitable for growing flowers.