- Author: Ken Williams
This past Master Gardener Christmas Wreath Workshop I happened to purchase some of the old electrical insulators that caught my eye. I like old stuff and cool stuff and the insulators along with the threaded wooden dowels that came with them fit the bill: cool and old!!!
I took the dowels and soaked them for 24 hours in Thompson's Water Seal to hopefully protect them from rot while close to the earth for as long as possible. After letting the dowels dry out I was thinking of some way to support them in the ground but not actually have the dowel itself in the ground. I decided to use some old aluminum arrow shafts that my friend Jim Darling had left for me. I cut the aluminum shafts off about nine inches long. Then I drilled a hole in the dowel just a bit larger than the aluminum shaft diameter. Next I filled the hole up with a good portion of hot glue, stuck the shaft into the hole before the glue cooled and eureka I had a perfect support for the dowel and insulator.
I put the “Insulator Tulips” in my front yard garden and they make a perfect statement; “Recycle, Reuse, Repurpose and Beautify”