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This shelving unit will show off all your garden treasures and small plants such as auriculas.

Equipment needed:

• Workbench

• Tape measure

• Pencil

• Set square

• Saw

• Hammer

• Drill

• Wood drill bits

• Screwdriver

• Small rigid plant pot

• Tin snips

• Sandpaper (if required)

Materials needed:

• Pair of old drawers

• Wood screws

• Exterior paint

• Off cuts of lead

• Flat head tacks

What to do:

• Firstly dismantle one of the old drawers into pieces.

• Now measure and cut one of the pieces so it fits snugly inside the other draw to form the shelf. Pilot drill and fix the shelf with woodscrews.

• From another piece of the dismantled drawer, measure and cut a 2.5cm (1in) wide baton, the same width as the unit.

• Pilot drill and screw the baton to the top of the unit at the rear.

• To make the roof, cut another one of the pieces, so it is slightly longer than the width of the drawer.

• Place this on top of the drawer, pilot drill and attach with woodscrews. This now forms the roof and the baton ensures it slopes forward.

• If necessary rub the unit down with sandpaper, prepainting.

• Paint the unit in your desired colour, using an exterior paint product, then put to one side to dry.

• With the hammer flatten out a lead off cut. Use the tin snips to cut a square of lead that overlaps the roof.

• On the front edge of the lead, mark out with the plant pot semicircles. Cut along this pattern to form a decorative edge. If desired another piece of lead can be cut in the same pattern and layered over the first piece.

• Attach to a wall, and you will have a theatre for special plants like Toby’s auriculas.