Introduction to the Copper Plant Hanger Project

Series Summary

Garden art such as wall hangings, globes, bird baths, and mosaics are common features in gardens throughout the world. Many of these pieces of garden art are crafted in bulk and sold at almost every garden store. Many garden art fixtures such as wall hangings can be created very simply at home for much less money and a little bit more time. Copper plant hangers, for example, can be fashioned out of old copper wire from a refrigerator and hung on a fence or wall. If you would like to know how to make a decorative copper plant hanger, learn for free, online, from one of our experts.

In this free online video series, learn how to make your own copper plant hanger from expert Diana Bacon. She will teach you what supplies and tools you will need to make a decorative plant hanger, and how to cut the copper wire, how to curl the copper wire, how to apply flux to your plant hanger, how to solder the wire together to make your plant hanger, and how to use a propane torch to create rainbow colors on copper.

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Diana for expertvillage.com and today I am going to show you how to make a copper plant hanger for outside. The one we are going to make today we will only have one pot. This one has three so we are going to make one that is a little bit smaller. So here I have some copper refrigerator tubing wrapped into a curl, painted ceramic pot and some smaller copper tubing that I have welded onto the larger copper tubing and spun that into some curly Q's. Then I planted my geraniums and hung it on the fence. So let me show you how to make this curly copper plant hanger. "