New Junque = Better Mood

Category: FRED - the garden | Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:53 pm

Because my oldest daughter and her hubby recently chose to make their lives easier by selling their house and moving into a townhome and let someone else be responsible for lawncare and maintenence, she had some yard things for me.

The month of August is usually hard on me, what with the heat making it impossible for me to work in the garden I have to leave it to fend for itself. Other than watering there is just nothing else I can do out there and that makes me very moody.

Having new garden decor items to make plans for will help me make it thru until the weather cools.

I have this nice deep wheelbarrow to plant in. I will need to line it with plastic since it has been used to mix cement and I don't want anything leeching into the soil. Haven't decided what yet, but being so deep I can put something good sized in it.

These two tubs they had used to hold water for the dogs and bathing the dogs. I figure a few drainage holes along the lower part, fill with soil and plant away.

The fire pit ring was in their shed when they bought the house, the rest of the fire pit was gone. Recently the Dallas news paper had a large article on planting fairy gardens in the large Bonsai planters. Instead of that I am going to place this on the ground on top of some black plastic for weed block and plant my fairy garden in it.

This pile of bricks is only half of what was behind their shed, I have until the 31st to talk Randy into getting the rest of them. I want to make a nice sized wishing well planter. If I can't get the others then the wishing well will be as large as these bricks make.

Randy's dad gave me this box, I need to put some sealer on it before the weather eats it up then figure out what to plant in it too.

This birdbath isn't junque, it is new. We found it in the half price section of a farm supply store last week. It is die cast metal with green highlights.

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eileen wrote on Mon Aug 20, 2007 7:38 pm:

Oh boy Toni how I envy you all those fantastic planters. I would be dreaming away the days filling them in my mind with all kinds of wonderful plants!!!! Let's hope the cool weather comes to you soon so that you can show us them all planted up. Fingers crossed Randy picks up the rest of those bricks as a wishing well planter sounds great.

Frank wrote on Mon Aug 20, 2007 7:39 pm:

Plenty of potential there Toni. Will it be your first barrow planter?

August isn't my favourite month either, seems like everything is just a bit up in the air. We don't have your heat however.

Netty wrote on Tue Aug 21, 2007 12:14 am:

Great stuff Toni. I can't wait to see everything done, especially your fairy garden!

CritterPainter wrote on Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:57 am:

I prob'ly shouldn't mention that DH is in the garage chopping firewood right now... wish I could ship you some of our cool weather but at least you have some new garden toys to daydream over! Can't picture a "fairy garden", looking forward to pics!

glendann wrote on Tue Aug 21, 2007 6:06 am:

I have a fairy of sorts CritterPainter.

glendann wrote on Tue Aug 21, 2007 6:08 am:

I can't wait to see a tiny one toni, Mine is a good size one.I like that wheel barrow.It is really a nice size one.

toni wrote on Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:36 pm:

Frank, my first wheelbarrow is in the main garden. Not doing well this year tho. Time to replace the soil I guess.

Glenda, your fairy village is adorable. Mine is just going to be a garden with maybe some small chairs, etc. That ring is about 3feet in diameter so I think I will have lots of fun getting it set up.