![Cactus made from a Garden Hose and Zip Ties. What a great way to repurpose a broken hose. And you don't need to water it! Cactus made from a Garden Hose and Zip Ties](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-VHdsFbU8vZw/V7qO8j7DPNI/AAAAAAABiPI/p9DsDBYGig4/Cactus-made-from-a-Garden-Hose-and-Zip-Ties.jpg?imgmax=1600)
A found a few decorative ideas and even some useful hacks (saw blade shield anyone?) but nothing that really used an ENTIRE 50 foot garden hose.. And then I discovered Brian Jewett. He is the AMAZING LA artist who makes things out of.. ZIP TIES.
Seriously.
And one of his zip tie projects were these garden hose cacti for a large art installation (about water conservation) in LA:
![Hose-Cactus-montage.jpg Hose Cactus montage](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aOOYNWd705U/V7qPQw9Sq3I/AAAAAAABiPc/yUbM-y4WvAw/Hose-Cactus-montage.jpg?imgmax=1600)
I told you so!! Aren’t those fabulous?!?
Well.. I decided it was worth a shot at making my own. The construction looked pretty straight forward. I didn’t have nearly as much hose as Brian used, but I did come up with my own version which I think is pretty darn cute:
![Garden-Hose-Repurpose-into-Cactus.jpg Garden Hose Repurpose into Cactus](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Qa_Nvgv-oRs/V7qPL8B4LQI/AAAAAAABiPU/h0HAwG7IHIM/Garden-Hose-Repurpose-into-Cactus.jpg?imgmax=1600)
I added some faux flowers instead of the spigot handles, and I put my cactus in a flower pot, so it didn’t look like it was coming out of the ground.
![Garden-Hose-Barrel-Cactus.jpg Garden Hose Barrel Cactus](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3OFOSJT3jpc/V7qPJu4-1jI/AAAAAAABiPQ/dqOE5HyR8XU/Garden-Hose-Barrel-Cactus.jpg?imgmax=1600)
![Barrel-cactus-from-garden-hose-and-zipe-ties.jpg Barrel cactus from garden hose and zipe ties](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ypir5Fz7NIQ/V7qPGxWlLGI/AAAAAAABiPM/1tl-ojZmxTk/Barrel-cactus-from-garden-hose-and-zipe-ties.jpg?imgmax=1600)
Not a bad second life for a worn out old busted garden hose.
![Potted-Cactus-made-from-Garden-Hose.jpg Potted Cactus made from Garden Hose](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uEc7MmduFp4/V7qPOpy74eI/AAAAAAABiPY/IWtiT0bEZT0/Potted-Cactus-made-from-Garden-Hose.jpg?imgmax=1600)
To see how exactly it came together, I put together this short video tutorial: