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I wrote a very short story blumenhaft in German about a man who built lots of plant stands, stands for potted plants. Here it is in English: I found a broken bicycle and took it apart. I had a good idea, I welded some of the bits together and made a plant stand. It is about 50 centimetres high and I can stand on it, it's so strong. It is painted pale blue, for a clematis perhaps. Yes, a good idea, a birthday present for the wife. I made another. A wooden plant pot stand, about 20 centimetres high, painted white. Maybe I would put a marguerite on it. I gave the two plant pot stands to my wife, it was her birthday. She said, “Oh! Thanks a lot! Now I have 923 pot stands. Before I only had 921, I've counted them all. I think I'll start an internet website with the banner: Send me ten Euros and I'll send you a pot stand! Yesterday I thought she was joking, today I'm not so sure. I don't think that Big Tone has got nine hundred plant stands in his house and garden, not even one hundred, but he certainly has a lot. I asked Mrs Big Tone to document the plant stands in her home. Here is her story: It is true, the big pot plants have to stand on something, not directly on the floor, the underfloor-heating would kill them. However he could be doing something useful, like ironing sheets or sweeping up the leaves in autumn, instead of continually making those ugly pot stands. 
This is a really big plant stand made from the decorative ends of a single bed, with two wheels from a dead lawnmower. Unfortunately it has been outside in the rain for many years, it will receive the chop and end in our wood burning stove. 
I particularly hate this one. It's the base of a double locker, with extra wooden bars and is painted green. 
A bird table made from a wooden sleeper (railroad tie) with an old plastic chopping block from the kitchen nailed on top. I usually put a potted geranium on it in summer. The stone on the left is a findling.
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