Garden Objects #4

The snail probably took direction better, too, and no complaints that the back of his head was unflattering.

I enjoyed your description of the Philly Flower Show. The paper did have a pic of the row house porches. Did you take lots of photos? Any of the ferns?

Pat Thanks, I'm glad that you enjoyed it. I have a few photos, but most are pretty terrible. On Saturday it was so crowded that it was almost impossible to get any good shots. I've been waiting for Critter to post hers, so that I can augment maybe 2 or 3 things she might have missed. Most of mine have people that moved in front of the camera right as I took the shot. URRG.

Here's a garden object that DSO gave me for my birthday. It was one of our finds on that snowy day that we spent walking around HavredeGrace. My first thought was to hang it somewhere low enough that I could keep the suet cage on it. LOL, judging from my recent experiences with those darned squirrels, I don't think that's going to be such a good idea!!

Here are two more treasures from that excursion. A different type of frog! I really like these two. The size of the square one really appealed to me. I'm not one for making hugh bouquets inside of the house, unless I'm having company. A small nosegay of garden delights on my kitchen counter or in my den where I spend most of my time, brings great joy to me.

The oblong shape of the second one was the main attraction. I have several nice round ones, but there are some containers that look better with an oblong configuration. I particularly like daffs and tulips arranged this way.

Love the frog hanger, that is a great find.

Those little frog come in handy to just show off just one or 3 flowers, I love using them in a pretty shallow dish, like a old glass ashtray, and add a few leaves to cover up the mechanics.

Stormy

Love the big frog for hanging. Glad you included the dime with the other ones. Didn't know they came that small.

We just got back from the Hagerstown show, which was very disappointing. Not at all like what we saw 4 years ago. Beautiful orchid plants from 2 vendors, but really not much else that was unusual or tempting. Overheard another attendee questioning the relevance of some of the vendors. Potomac is way out of its banks and roads closed closer to Hagerstown on our way back due to flooding.

I didn't have to purchase this guy - he and a friend came to visit for free!

here is something I am working on. Trying to salvage a broken doo-dad that a friend gave me.

And here is a piece of rebar with pottery on it. Damaged or seconds that a local potter was selling. All lined up on the rebar and made it through the winter too.
I can't tell from the thumbnail if I got it in but it is about the three or four o'clock postion on the photo.

Stormy love the frog it is great.
missingrosie, That is some great frog hanger you have there. LOL You are pretty inventive so I'm sure you will come up with a cute idea for the broken pottery.
ecnalg. Ric and I were planing to go to Timonium Orchid Show and maybe swing around to Hagerstown. Thanks for the warning. We never did make it to the Hbg Show and I was disappointed as a friends son won best in show for his landscaping design and it would have been nice to see his display. But other than that I heard it was bad. They wanted something like $400 for the clubs to set up stands. These are just small non profit groups like our Hobby Green House Assoc that have no real budget and are just there to talk to people and hand out a few fliers. In the past clubs like that volunteered to work the show for so many hours as payment for a space. So since they changed that none of the clubs set up displays. The local Community College had a stand they have a Horticultural Program and I was told that the replacement window vendor was beside them and a guy selling cooking pots with a microphone was across from them. They could barely talk to anyone that wanted info and most people were walking by with their heads down and moving as fast as they could so the hawkers didn't catch them. I believe that the tickets to the show were about $12 and another $8 to park.

I hope you're feeling a lot better now, Holly.

This one was free parking and $4 to get in. DH took a couple pictures besides the one he put up for Critter. Hopefully he'll put them on here.

Guess thats my cue. She wants me to make something like this into a fountain. There was an interesting fountain display but I forgot the take any pics.

Here is a garden angel.

I have a rain chain that would go good with the tea cups!!!

Shoot! I just threw away a rusted rake. I love that angel. But, I know how I am...I'd save it forever and never make the angel. Love all the photos keep 'em coming. ..the winter seems like it has lasted forever.

missingrosie, What a great frog photo! He certainly looks wonderful hanging there. I had a squirrel that used to hang like that on my screens. That wasn't such an endearing sight especially after he ripped the screens out of the frames.
That pottery on the rebar looks wonderful beside your pond. I have sworn off buying more glass and ceramic items for the garden. Tree branches and walnuts keep falling on them and breaking them.
Today I looked out in the garden and even one of my smaller cast iron urns had blown off of it's pedastal.

Greenthumbs and Pat, The teapot and cups would make a great fountain. But for the breaking factor, it could be made out of old brass and copper mugs and kettles. The garden angel is really sweet.

It's hard to tell from this photo, but this topiary is a duck. I loved the tulips growing out of his belly and the mother in laws for tounge. This is from the Philly show.

too cute

Here's another item from the show. What intrigued me about this planting wasn't the pagoda or the orchids wired to the tree. It was the beautiful mix of sedums, semps and mosses mounded up around the base. I'm hoping to use this idea on a wide slice of log that I have a sculpture sitting on in my garden. It will have to be sans moss as too much sunlight creeps between the canopy during midafternoon.

I loved these colored glass spirals on stakes toward the center. This exhibit was full of gazing balls and other very colorful ornaments. Some of the balls were steel, but most were glass. These items really brighten up the shade gardens, but in this instance, aside from adding form and texture, the colors seemed to fight with the blooms.

Of course, when not much is blooming, that wouldn't be the case. That's one of the things that I like about smaller objects, their portability. They will be ready to travel on the job, wherever needed!

What attracted me to this exhibit was the use of red, white, pink and orange blooms. I have a large planting of red and white striped tulips and wanted to see how they have combined them. But the hidden gem here was the wonderful seating area tucked away in the corner. It is all rough hewn wood benches and rusty old garden tools. Can you see the ladder? It was so hard to get good photos at this show.

This combination fountain, herb and ornamental annual display caught my eye right away. There were several kinds of Sage, Rosemary, oreganos and others. The annual ornamentals were impatiens and geraniums.

This was interesting to me as I used to have a giant ceramic dish planter that I put a floating solar powered fountain in. It sat on an old tree stump and I always planted herbs and ornamental annuals around it.There are still spring bulbs planted around the stump now.

What was nice about it was that the spray from the fountain kept the annuals and herbs moist, but yet the slope of the earth up to the stump allowed drainage for the bulbs. The rotting wood enriched the soil.

The downsides were, the house and trees cast shadows on it and the fountain only worked from about 11:30 to 4;30, but that was OK as that's when the plants needed the moisture most. The floating fountain was always getting clogged as it's near impossible to put a filter on a floating fountain. As I mostly cook after dark, I'd have to go out with the headlamp on to cut herbs. Then DSO dropped the dish bringing it out of the basement, so finito!!

I still have the stump and another small fountain to use, so it's back to the drawing board!!

Stormy-

What a treat to see the pictures you posted! You're right about the breakage being a consideration on the teacup fountain we saw.

Loved the ground around the pagoda tree. I've seen several interesting things with sedum and mosses lately.

The duck is darling, created by someone with a sense of humor.

Sorry about your solar fountain base. What a great idea for keeping things moist just when they need it most. Don't know if I would have spotted the ladder if you had not mentioned it. They make such cool accents. Love the old tools mixed in, too. I think that was what I liked best with the angel -- those rusty wings. The color mix in the azaleas pic did work well. Please share your tulips with us when they bloom. Really enjoyed all the flower show pics you have here. Also the image of you out there in the dark with your headlamp. :-)

ecnalg, does your snail have relatives in Hawaii?
Take a look at this.....


http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=7705862

I have a special new garden object. But you will have to wait till Ric and I can take a proper pic of it.

LadyG

That snail does look like part of the same family! Ours has even more hostas to guard these days.

Backward Glance

ecnalg----

Your DG name--is it "glance" spelled backwards?????

I just pick up on these kind of things........Gita (atig)

Atig-

That's it! David has the green thumb. I just look back at his plantings.

My lilacs are in full bloom and the yard smells soooo good.

How did your volleyball go for your first time back?

Holly....DID THE EGG HATCH????

good one, miss. LOL The baby robin that ate Dover Pa.

Some how I missed all of Stormy's pretty pictures.
LOL Missingrosie, No it still hasn't hatched but the robins are still trying. LOL

robin beday??

ROFLOL
Sometimes when we first look out in the morning before it has been turned on you will see a bird sitting on it. Once it is running they stay away from it. LOL

It would make a good easter card with your best man sitting on it!

Ah you ladies just killed my credit card with those links lol! I found some super cute items to add to my gardens! I'm hurting for Moose though, so if you find any wonderful Moose please do send me the links! The bed in the center of my drive is all about them, however outdoor goodies are few and far between!

Here is a photo of my faerie woodland bed, that lovely blue beach chair has been replaced with a cute bamboo bench from Plow & Hearth. There are faeries tucked all over along the plants and paths, as well as a variety of toadstools and a few faerie doors are located at the base of trees. I made the doors a few years ago out of scrap wood, acrylic paints and beads, I bought a book that tells how to make faerie houses out of logs using a band saw, dh swears he's going to make me some...one day...Oh and George the Gargoyle sits at the far corner of this section of the garden! The large faerie was a gift for my birthday from my mom and dad!!!

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Now this is one end of my pig bed, do not know how I developed a love of pigs but I have! This bed is getting a major overhaul as my chop happy dh massacred my hollies!! I could have killed him, but in the end he has to pay for the replacements to fill in the space and that will be a grand punishment lol!

this being the other end of said pig bed lol!

I also have the cat bed which is sort of a bit macabre considering it's where a collection of bird feeders are located! I haven't taken a picture of it yet as I've just recently completed the mulching process of it.

I've started adding dragonfly decor around my pond, mostly just stakes at this point. It still needs so much landscaping so I'm not in a huge hurry for the decorating part lol.

Thanks to your links I found some adorable gnomes that I will be adding to yet another garden section on the side yard. It's 'bones' are two large poplar trees and the gnome door and the gnome coming out of the tree will be adorable!

Thanks for sharing your images! I love the whimsical side to gardening!!!

LOL Just love the Pig garden. Ric has a thing for pigs and we have several of them. I really like the faeries standing under the morning glory flower. That is so cute.

those fairies make me drool!!!.. love them all!!

I LOVE that pig watering can, I don't have any watering cans lol, so maybe I just need one of those!

Oh and speaking of drooling...this site has some of the most amazing statues, of course they have the amazing prices to go with!
http://www.designtoscano.com/category/garden+statues.do


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