....my son asked me if I planned on putting an old frig or perhaps a broken washing machine on the front porch after seeing my old bathtub water garden. :-)
Old Appliances/Fixtures and the front porch......
hi happenstance, i love your idea. my mother-in-law thought i lost my mind when i used a old wooden step ladder in my garden. wait till she see your idea in my garden. belinda
I love it. What all do you have planted in their. That is really superior.
There's cat-tail (a small variety), double marsh marigold, sweet flag, some mini horse tail, and water hyacinth.
Belinda - your MIL would think I was really crazy if she saw some of the "found" objects in my garden. :-)
LOL It looks cute! One of my favorite containers is an antique baby bath tub. :)
hi happenstance, what are the other objects in your garden? i love the old and the odd. belinda
That looks wonderful! Too bad tubs cost so much around here. *Sigh*
(contemplates stealing Happies tub)
Belinda -
You said "i love the old and the odd."
I qualify on both counts. :-)
Other things in my garden include some "yardifacts" a term I apply to a growing pile of broken pottery done in by our heavy winds. Looks like some ancient civilization being uncovered. A Tiki-God found floating in SF Bay, a wall sink from one of the Eastern Block apartment complexes, old grates, another bath-tub from Hungary, a large decorative metal piece from an old SF building, an old urn decaying and covered with green mold, an old kitchen pot rack turned into a planter, old bird cages, driftwood from San Francisco Bay.
The difference between "junk" and "yard-art" is in arranging it artfully. LOL, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
I think there are some other threads with images of some of my "stuff"......
http://davesgarden.com/t/424626/
http://davesgarden.com/t/422519/
Can't locate some of the others, but I know I've posted images of the wall sink and other tubs.
This one isn't in my garden, but I've been tempted to copy it:
http://davesgarden.com/t/394956/
hi happenstance, i don't think of you as old or odd. you have the neatest ideas. i enjoyed the images, i would like to see the wall sink. thanks for all ideas. belinda
Well I sure can't find the thread where we were posting this stuff.....bird cages, etc. So I just went and took another picture, but the ivy has grown so much you really can hardly see the shape of the bowl anymore. :-)
(And I sure don't remember what I called the darn picture or I'd grab it from my hard drive.)
happenstance, i love the picture. i wish you lived close by. have you ever felt the need to come to ohio? belinda
belinda -
I usually hit a few spots in Ohio when I go to Newell, WV to visit The Homer Laughlin China Company. They are the makers of Fiesta dinnerware, which aside from my family and gardening is my most obsessive interest.
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hi happenstance, have you ever been to the longaberger factory? belinda
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Love the tub!
In the sixties the used plumbing place next to us scrapped dozens of them as you couldn't give them away!
Now you can't afford them IF you can find them.
Fiestaware eh?
I work for a restaurant supply house and we're Homer distributors!
Ric (sipping his morning coffee in a Cobalt Blue mug)
Morning Belinda -
Never been to the Big Basket place, don't even own a piece of Longaberger.
Hi Ric -
I think I could actually qualify as a distributor I have so much Fiesta. :-) The new color Scarlet later this year will hopefully be a big hit!
And another tub from the back patio. You are right these old fixtures used to be landfill and now they are pricey collectibles.
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