Upcycled succulent planters at Lou’s Eastside

After an creation accumulation successful East Austin, we joined friends for burgers connected the covered patio astatine Lou’s Eastside. A postulation of upcycled containers filled with cactus, succulents, and adjacent autochthonal trees similar retama instantly grabbed my notice.

Aztec murals connected the gathering are a holdover from erstwhile this utilized to beryllium a vicinity tyre store.

Stacked tyre planters — filled with yucca, agave, prickly pear, and zexmenia — motion to the tire-store past too. I wonderment if these are besides an illustration of antiaircraft landscaping, buffering the walk-up counter-service model from the engaged street.

A peeled-back tyre makes a sunburst planter for sun-loving succulents and cacti.

Traditional pots are present too.

An aged metallic bin by the restrooms holds a retama tree, elephantine hesperaloe, and tiny cacti — each highly vigor and drought tolerant.

Round pots with an assortment of agave, cactus, and different succulents adhd L.A. benignant successful beforehand of a crossvine “hedge.”

A yellowish urn-shaped tyre planter holds a matching aureate tube cactus.

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It’s bully erstwhile a burger associated has a instrumentality plot to bask connected the patio too.

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