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Our gardens are full of wonderful non plant items both beautiful and functional.
Please post the photos of your garden objects here. Tell us their stories and ask lots of questions!!
These are the only squirrels that I want to see in my garden!
So enjoy lurking in your gardens...nothing I like better than garden art..well almost nothing..lol...
So glad to have you here Bettypauze. Please feel free to post your photos. We're always looking for new ideas!
OMG it would take me all day..lol...probably bore you...will post one or 2, when you get tired, ask me to stop..this is mid-atlantic forum, always go to check up your way for Gita..miss her on my threads...always nice to know dg family ok
I promise you won't bore us! Please post away. And we're very generous in our definition of "Mid-Atlantic gardeners." LOL
Okay, I hope this won't bore the pants off everyone, but my yard is full of fossils. Thought this one I dug up the other day was pretty cool. Bear with me, I'm trying to get a photo that allows you to see the fossils. If you look closely, there are seashells but also what looks like a little bitty dragonfly to the right of the center.
I put the contrast way out of whack in this one in hopes of making it easier to see.
Millions of years ago, when Europe, Africa, North and South America, etc. were blobbed together into the supercontinent Pangea, this area was part of a huge inland sea. That's why I have all these sea fossils in my yard.
(BTW, if any of you watch the Soup, every time he talks about Pangea being Larry King's hometown it cracks me up.)
Amazing isn't it, carved in stone...have same in my area, more slate than rock, but fossils engraved within...had picked a bunch to paint but thought better of it..
Behind the golden hops is an metal arbor which leads into a 'secret garden'....3 arbors allow those interested to sit for awhile, hidden from the busy day!
From inside the secret garden is 2 rooms...an old chandelier, recycled looks wonderful at night all lit..
This chandelier was purchased at a garage sale for $5. only thing I needed to do was remove the candles that held the bulbs and add glass cups for the candles
Starting to look for rusted garden art...found this sunflower at a local craft show..luckily for me it's held every year..anxious to purchase another piece..
Now that I've completed the top, a local garden area sells the legs..perhaps I'll pick them up this weekend
with left over glass, glass glue and an old frame and about 4 hrs. on my hands, left over grout, a piece of art hangs from the side deck ..bit of a buffer hidding the neighbors..lol
Enjoy painting so did a blue heron for near the pond
So pretty! That reminds me, I made a candle chandalier out of an old electric one years ago. I think ex probably still has it. I could hang it under the pergola. I didn't even have to add candle cups, just remove the bulb screw in stuff from inside "candle cups."
Love your sunflower too, Betty. Wow, that stained glass is gorgeous. The heron too. Did you paint him?
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Recycled linoleum painted to match cushions helps make the setting a little more country..
Old metal chair found..hoping it will rust
At a local warehouse also found a metal staircase..must get some containers to sit on it..
Attached to 2 4x4's is a large frame about 4' by 6'...going this weekend to purchase a larger hanging basket to do it justice..
Best I quit while I'm ahead..you'll all be telling me I've posted far too much..could go on and on..lol
Thanks for letting you see some of my gardens...
More, more. The chair and stairs are terrific.
Hart that is soooo COOL!!!
Betty, you just keep on posting...... LOVING your yard.
You are being to kind..
Bought at the lake shore craft sale in Barrie the window frame with garden art metal sunflower..center is a mirror..looks so pretty...actually compost that included some ashes from a dear DG gardener sits in front of it...a tribute to her...
Another metal art piece...a dragonfly..
Although this staircase looks on the same level it is not..just working on it, have another 2 leaves to set in to finish the steps up to the side entrance of the secret garden...
Waiting for the leaves to dry on the top surface now so I can just sweep them off..
Garage sale has wonderful finds...bought this metal table last Saturday, placed it in the garden and matches the window art almost perfectly..
Ok will stop...lol
Just being truthful.
Betty, I'm loving your yard too :))) and I really like how you used up some glass. I have bags of leftover glass pieces and should get working on using it somehow too.
This was in New Orleans in front of a lovely home in the Garden District
The dragonfly is way cool. Thanks so much for sharing, Betty.
Field Trip to Betty's!! Beautiful!
Betty, thank you so much for posting, love, love, love it. I started out thinking I will have to post how much I like that but by the time you were done all I could say is I like everything.
Hart, Next time you host a swap, I will be on the look out for rocks. How interesting. I love fossils.
Bettypauze, You are one awesome exterior decorator!!! The chandeliers are really neat. I have to avoid all ideas of those. Too many inside the house already! I love your glass mosaic. Very beautifully done. That orange sunflower looks great with the Rudbeckia. What a wonderful job you did on your Heron!.
That linoleum with the cushions was really using your noggin. The frames with the plants and plaques are a great idea, one I may use. Love the checkerboard in the grass and all of the rusting iron pieces in the yard.
You'll have to post a better pix of your steps and whatever that was that you have to get legs for. Love that little iron table from the garage sale.
Hart, Love those rock fossils. Yes, I want one too.
Wind, that tree is great. I've seen bronze nose, eyes and mouth for trees, but haven't been able to locate a set.
I don't often find ones as good as the one I posted, but I haven't been exactly digging around looking for them either. I'll be sure to find a couple more good ones for you all, Holly and Stormy. And Holly, there's a fantastic place where all the fossil hounds go to get fossils, really good ones, right up the road from me. Bring your shovel for fossils in my yard but bring your pick for this spot too. It's a big, exposed rock face on the side of the road.
I have a really good fossil, one I bought not one I dug up out of the yard. I'll take a photo of that tomorrow.
Welllllll....HELLLO to you too Betty! Glad you are meandering over here.....
Welcome to where I live and play and post and share! Where I am comfortable and safe from attacks by any of my Mid Atlantic friends.
I DO check now and then on the B&W Thread...but not too often. Too much chatter there----I DO like to look at the pictures now and then....
I do not have any garden "objects". Not into that.....Oh, I have a couple of chimes and a couple of Ikea black, metal bird cut-outs from a few years ago that I stick in my beds...wherever I choose. That's all.
Bed time for me....Nighty-night......Gita
Thank you all..Gita, always in search of where you might be..like to know you are ok..thanks girls..
They shouldn't let me out of the house some days...took off 2 hrs. early today and stopped in to lumberyards looking for materials for a new picket fence planter..stopped at nursery, bought a flamingo variegated willow shrub, going back for another, then stopped at another lumberyard and here finally at work, make plans and lumber list for weekend project..
I thank you all for the lovely comments, but more so for letting me join you yesterday afternoon...I've been through your 1st-2nd thread and have some ideas I might incorporate
Again, thank you kindly!! Waving Gita..
Betty, Loved your garden! Please stop back soon!
Betty, Loved your treasures, on the way home with ours 1st 500 used brick we passed a roadside spot full of old farm implement, parts , cast iron wheels, and rusty junk. I can't wait to go back! :-) LOL Holly's Ric
Wind, I took a lotta' early morning walk abouts in the Garden District (pre-Katrina), and never spotted that live oak tree sprite, WOW, sorry I missed that! Ric
Ric, I went back last spring and the garden district looks exactly the same. Couldn't tell anything had happened there. Thank heavens!
