What's the view from your favorite perch? Show and tell...

I love that old cast iron garden furniture. It's nice stuff. ;)

Diann

my plants are suffering here...but the old iron vases from the 1800's...french....just love them

final pic.....love this container....from an estate sale ....i buy any i can find...

Sticks, I am sooo jealous. Antiques and plants ~ I am 'green' with envy! We had an 2nd hand store and all I got was this blue bidet...

Do you think the iron pots get too hot for your plants or are they protected from the sun? I ask because at flea markets I learned not to handle cast iron cookware in the summer. Doesn't take long to look at it!

Connie That is a lovely scene to do a drive-by on. The foilage colors blend so elegantly, nice!

pod...you are famous for your blue bidet.....(grin)....; as for my pots...not sure which one you are referring....but the tall urn is concrete...and the metal lookign one is aluminum....not an antique at all....got about 7 of them at home depot on sale for 7.00 each....anyway, i have them in plastic containers on the inside....and yes, we are under shade trees the whole day....pod...an antique store.../ a second hand store....well, its all our 'stuff'....and don't you just love it!!!

I DO love it. Flea markets, garage sales you name it. On days when nothing else goes, antique stores, 2nd hand stores. For a few years here, eight miles of farm road would get together and hold a garage sale... 8 miles of it! Only on Sat and we work so we would get up at dark-thirty and be on the road when dawn was cracking. We had lots of fun, found many treasures and managed to get to work on time. Great fun and this junqueing has located many unusual plants/seeds.

i SO love junking.....in fact last week a friend of mine said she just got back from a garage sale in our town of 1800....so i made a beeline...it was 300 in the afternoon.....tons of people had already been there....and passed up this lil gem....i got her for 3.00.....it is from the 1800's...i have another in different muted tones.....i love the vases....NO one else wanted this......amazing....

Found treasures, you know, I probably would have passed it by. I would admire it at you house but couldn't visualize it at mine. It is pretty though.

Should be about time for the 5 state garage sale. Some year, we are going to make it.

it is way over the top for most....but my home is all ivory....with muted accents like the vase.....so it is perfect in my home....bottomline....we all see beauty in different things....so glad noone else found this one beautiful as i NEEDED it for my home...by the way, i loved rust b4 rust was in....so go figure:)

Sticks...is the vase from an area in Italy called Cappidimonte or something like that?? It is beautiful and a great find!!!

no...i know what you are talking about .....or let me say i know what you are referring to....vases named after that....but i believe they were made here in the U.S. by italian imigrants.....

X,

I know how you feel. I too had a garden in England and had to leave it behind to come and live here in GA.

I also miss the wildlife we have there.

Spider & X ~ I am sad that you are yearning for your home. I think many of us have left a "past" behind and for me, that is why the gardening is so special. I can recreate or invite memories of the past. DG is a great place to share those memories. I am glad you both are willing to share these memories, ideas and hopes for the future. pod

The view from all the windows and doors in my house are the woods, except where I have flower beds. We live in the middle of 32 acres of mature woods. Just cut enough trees to build our house and outbuildings. Deer, squirrels, turkeys, possum, coons, dillos and dozens of birds wander up here to eat during the day and evening.

My dau.-in-law works cleaning new construction houses and called us last night to ask if we wanted 3 pallets of bricks. Apparently, one of the builders just finished a house and has the bricks left over. He was going to just throw them in the dumpster. (How wasteful.) My hubby and son are going Wed. to pick them up and we are planning on expanding our patio and lining our gravel paths with them.

When my hubby takes time to figure out how to download pixs to this site, will send some from the deck and porches. Hope everyone has had a good summer in the gardens. Liz

Liz...what a break! Three entire pallets? Unbelievable! Have you decided what pattern to lay them in? I once did a circular brick patio...can't remember the pattern, but know it was hard! Do you work with wet mortar and a trowell or do you dry pack with mortar mix and fine sand and then hose it in? That's about all I remember...:)

Oh Boy, more bricks! How fun. We did a brick sidewalk in front, a brick patio in back and I did the sidewalk around the side of the house, the patterns don't exactly match, but I don't exactly care!

I am lovin this thread. Such beautiful landscapes to admire. Antique store, I wouldn't ever have anything to sell, I'd want to keep it all. I especially love all the white, great accents.
Podster, great bidet idea plenty fertile for the plants!
Here is one view from last year when I had the dahlias in the brick bed with the antique mirror. The mirror was Steve's great aunt's from a ancient dresser set.

Ohhh is that ever delightful. The mirror really adds to the beauty!

haigr gorgeous pic

pod...your brick patio is lovely!!!

Actually that is the sidewalk and I will personally take credit. Thank you, with a bow.

This is what greets me every morning. It's the view from my front deck. Nothing better than a cup a joe and the view to get me going.

Had to throw in another.

Wow...now THAT'S a vista!!!

OH MY gld, What a view. What kind of trees are growing on the mountains? How inspiring to wake to that every morning. Fantastic.

sticks, the white iron is so fun, I am always looking for things like that but my DH doesn't like garage sales so I don't go.

Connie, beautiful. I really like the grasses though I don't have any yet. I will be planting them by my summer stream.

pod, You better watch out. A bidet is a very desireable thing. Someone may come steal it........or something. :)

haighr, (is that another spelling for higher??? just curious.) I love the mirror, I have a fence I need to add something like that to. again, I am sure I could find something like it at a garage sale---but I don't go. I have over 2 doz dahlias this year, mostly dinnerplate which are just blooming now. I love your space.

Lissy, Fun to know you know where I live. Just about 3 miles away from where you lived. I love your gardens, just beautiful. The red ones look like my Parks Whopper lighthouse or one of the other bright red annual salvias. Shade gardening is one of my passions, I have a small amt of hostas, ferns and astilbes and other shade loving plants. We were just in the mountains that are up above Springville, boy was that a fun dirt road. Beautiful scenery though. I was at Manti this last weekend and went up in the mountains. These next pictures are of the wildflowers at elevation 9,000 - 10,000 feet. Hope you enjoy.

Here is another,

Can't I call this my backyard? I just have to drive 3 hours to get there. LOL.
This is the last pic, (I am going to post more in the photos forum) These yellow daisy fields were all over. We saw 2 men cathering wild flower seed, it was quite interesting.
Marie

Most of my pics were taken on the run, holding on as we were going over the rocky, rutted road. My DH loves to drive those roads, maybe a little faster than I think he should (but I don't say a thing). I took about 175 pics, about 75 were good enough to keep.

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Thanks MyRee, Mostly hardwood, Maples, oaks, Poplar and Sycamore. A few Pines thrown in here and about.

Oh the rolling hills of NC, what a spectacular focal point!
Candee

gldandrews, you are truly blessed to savor THAT with your coffee! I love living in the woods but miss the skyline. No sunrises or sunsets from my front porch. On summer nights we enjoy the woods sparkling with fireflys. During the winter days, the woods look like they are decorated for Christmas with red birds (cardinals) sprinkled all over...

Thanks everyone. This was a sunset this past winter facing west from our Back Yard.

Speechless!

McRee...are those blue flowers lupines? I think they look a bit like our bluebonnets here in Texas (our state flower!).

GL....just amazing...looks like a forest fire! But with vibrant purple "smoke"...w...o....w

This is the view from my yard looking out. I love it! This land in the picture and the acerage on my left are in an ag reserve and owned by the first family to live/own my little town. I hope it never changes. During differant times of the year there will be cherry tomatoes, bell pepper or green beans grown in this feild. Thank the Good Lord that only once in my years here have they planted brocoli. Yicky stinky stuff.
~Dayna

Connie,
They are lupines. They were all over the 'almost' top of the mountains. The yellow ones are a yellow daisy.

GL, I thought of a fire also. That is an amazing picture and to see it in person, Wow.

Lissy, I was up to Mantua reservoir this evening, the NE mountains were on fire It looked like it came from over the mountain. Here are some pictures of Lissy's back yard, Lissy, I hope you don't mind.

Marie

Dayna, Nine rainbow, and land. Is broccoli stinky when it is out in the field? I have never been anywhere where it has been grown. Or do you just not like it?

This is a picture of Lissy's view to the south. Next one is SE

Dayna, Nice picture, makes me think of the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. We are there!

Nice "backyard" Lissy... wouldn't want to have to mow it! : )))

Beautiful pictures. I'm really enjoying this thread. ;)

Not many people build a porch attached to their barn/shop but we did. lol We just decided it would be nice to have a pleasant shady spot to sit and rest and have some iced tea while we're working outside. We are outside a lot and at the barn a lot so we are really enjoying it. I don't know if you can tell by the pic but the posts are cedar. We are fixing it up very comfortable with our lawn furniture and bench.
While sitting and relaxing our view looks out toward our front yard landscape where the plants, blooming flowers and shrubs are. I'll have to get a good pic of that.
Lin



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Myree~I don't mind at all! I love Mantua. My parents still live there and my mom called me yesterday to tell me about that fire. Wow!! I will have to tell her that I got to see it now thanks to you!

I love that reservoir! It is about 4 miles around that thing and I used to run around it. In fact, I think I ran every road in Mantua. I used to run cross country for good old Box Elder and Utah State.

Lissy

I just got back from fishing in Island Park. I gotta tell you that place is Gorgeous. One of my favorite places to camp and fish. I went fishing all over the place up there and this pic is one of my favorites. You can see why I love it up there.

This spot was taken on the upper coffee pot section of the Henry's Fork of the Snake River. I hope I wrote that right. LOL

Lissy