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Pumpkin totems, stacks and towers

We’re pumpkin crazy!

And pumpkin elegant, too.  Simply going vertical changes the ‘pumpkin game’ completely!  Since these orange squash are our favorite items of Halloween and Fall décor, you need to know how to stack it up!

These are easy projects we all can do in a day or a weekend!

Sheila Bowden’s pumpkin stack

Sheila Bowden’s pumpkin stack is the focal point of her porch display.  Three vertical elements, the scarecrow, pumpkin stack and the wooden wagon filled with Fall leaves fill the space with Autumn splendor and whimsy.

 

Sue Loring’s pumpkin tower

Sue Loring‎ says  ‘Colors of Fall’ means pumpkins at my house. Lots and Lots of pumpkins!  A metal rod or conduit pipe used as a stake stabilizes the tall, tall pumpkin stack. See the project below for how to.

 

Tami Williams’s striped pumpkins

Wouldn’t Tami Williams’s striped pumpkins make an amazing tower?

 

Faux pumpkin tipsy

Plastic pumpkins can be used for tipsy pots and cement pumpkins.  For long-lasting cement pumpkins, the plastic container is used as a mold and eventually cut away.

Tipsy Pumpkin Planter ‘How to’ by Jill Staake

How to make pumpkin tipsy pots:

  • Drill two holes in each pot, as shown
  • Anchor a steel rebar rod bolted to a piece of wood laid at bottom of your container
  • Thread pots on rod and secure with wire for each pot
  • Add soil in the pot firmly to balance it
  • Plant with Chrysanthemums…you’re done!

Tipsy Pumpkin Planter by Jill Staake

 

 

Sharon McMath’s pots shows how to position the tipsy pot stake

 

 

 

Pumpkin tower done last year for by my front door. ~~ Sue Langley

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Pumpkin stack seen at Whole Foods looks a bit crotchety…doesn’t she?

 

Linda Bare’s faux pumpkin topiary

Linda Bare shows off “The pumpkin totem I made last Fall.”

 

Pumpkin people!

Myra Glandon started this party.  Party of the pumpkin people!  She started and two more came  soon after!  Just see…

Myra Glandon invents a new stacked style

Myra Glandon‎ says, “Meet Nosey Rosie. You don’t want her sticking her big nose in your business!”

 

Beth Knight makes the third rendition!

Beth Knight‎ was so inspired by the photo Myra posted that she had to do one too!  She says, “I already had the pumpkins…what fun!  She is Polly pumpkin. A friend made the little bench from pallets.”

 

Kaycee Sterling‎ adds even more details

Kaycee Sterling‎ says “Monkey see, monkey do…   Thanks for the inspiring ideas!”   Think about going ‘up’ in your garden when decorating with Fall pumpkins in all these different ways…

 

More about FMG Pumpkins:

Pumpkins in the Fall garden, the rusty and the heavy!

Have you ever baked a pumpkin?

Glassy, classy pumpkin globes

What to do with your Halloween pumpkin,.. after

Flea Market pumpkins: Crazy love

Sue Langley

Sue Langley, a passionate gardener and photographer lives and gardens with her husband and Corgi, Maggie on 7 acres just south of Yosemite, Zone 7 at 3000 feet. She manages the Flea Market Gardening Facebook page and website.

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