Ric's pig. LOL
Garden Objects
What good boys!
I love driftwood.
So many great garden objects on this thread! What fun!
OK, Ric, Is that a Guard Pig?
Holly, That big driftwood is beautiful. Actually all of the wood looks good in your beds. I keep driving by construction sites and seeing really neat small tree stumps, but so far haven't brought any home.
I took this photo at the Burpee Fordhook Farms to show RCN. Holly, you've actually got enough room to make one of these "Sculptures" Notice the dead tree behind and to the left of the stump, how it's shape fits into the composition.
Holly, Love your Phallic symbols! I used to belong to a women's community service group and we had monthly meetings at different member's homes. Each month the current hostess would hand over the mascot to the next month's hostess for lawn display. It was a 3' tall Pink Flamingo wrapped in Christmas lights(colored). The hostess had to plug it in & display it the night before & the night of the meeting so everyone would easily find the right house. Sometimes when someone was having a big party, particularly for people they wanted to impress, one or two of us would sneak over to their house right before the party and install and light it! Made for lots of laughs and was a good conversation starter to break the tensions!
This was my favorite of the Yard "Ornaments" at Fordhook. Notice how the motion of the sculpture mirrors the motion of the tree as if they are both being wind swept.
They had all kinds of things in the middle of large fields like this giant sphere.
I absolutely loved this sculpture. Those iron blades have large holes in them. When the wind blew the blades back and forth, it made MUSIC. It was very windy that day in early april.
This old spring house was really neat. Today, everybody is making "living roofs" on these. Not this one.
It had a "living floor". It was filled with over turned old crockery that had plants spilling out. Was quite charming.
These "Pod" things were scattered all throughout the gardens. They looked to have been made from kiln fired clay with some glazing and they had blueish green bubbled glass "lakes" in the bottom.
There were glass fish skeletons all over the place.
Maybe it was a commentary on feeding the soil.
There were a number of these "Tree Root" sculptures about the fields.
Here's another.
There were even fishes on the wall.
The "Happiness Garden" had this creature running through it. Kind of looked like an Ostrich skeleton. Sorry I cut off his head!
Some more giant sculptures. There were a pair of these on either side of the drive leading out.
Even the parking lot had sculptures. I went over to take a closer look at these and realized that I was walking through planted rows and have to step across each row of seedlings.
But by far, the most magnificent sculpture was this incredible tree.
Really nice, love all the differnt types of sculpture, I love stuff like that. Rusty metal and dead trees appeal to me. LOL
Yes that is a guard pig. I think it's even kind of scarry. Ric, loves it. I bought it for him years ago from a local nursery. Everytime we would go over there for something he would go and look at that thing. He wouldn't buy it didn't want to spend money on himself. Finally I bought it for him, Fathers Day or Birthday been so long I can't remember any more.
Holly, there's a place near here that has taken old fallen tree trunks from the woods, cut them into about 6 foot sections and hollowed out the middle and planted the hollow with flowers. It's way cool.
Also, Harpers has a almost life sized concrete pig planter. It was my favorite thing there until they got the 30 foot chicken.
Some that Fordhook stuff is really cool, like the giant sphere. Some is just weird. Who wants bird and fish skeletons in their garden? LOL
There's an episode of Gardener's Diary, Thai Garden, that has a guy who has made the coolest topiary you've ever seen, including a giant head. I think it's going to be repeated soon. It's on HGTV at 7 am on Fridays. Ah, here we go, it's on this Friday.
May 22, 2009
7:00 AM e/p
There's a photo of part of the head here. It's way taller than the guy who made it.
http://www.hgtv.com/landscaping/thai-garden/index.html
Hart I use to have a couple of semi rotted logs that were hollow and I planted them, but over the years they just fell apart. I have a nice solid piece of tree trunk about 2ft tall, down in the corral just waiting to come up to the yard and be planted. Jamie did it for me and hollowed out a nice deep planting spot by drilling and burning it out. I bet Ric would love that pig. I want the sea serpent, I can just see that thing out in the middle of the pasture. LOL I have a friend headed down that way this weekend and invited me along, but I really don't have the $$ to spend right now. Just finished paying for the dive trip I be taking this Nov. YHOOEEE back in the water again. Can't wait.
No Hart, Fish wouldn't do it for me either. I don't even get it when people who live nowhere near an ocean, put lighthouses and nautical things in their gardens. Are they wishing they were at the beach instead of in their garden?
If any of you haven't seen this thread, it is remarkable.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/581494/#top
This is what Holly & I were speaking of for those two green chairs. I could find something to make a little table out of. Probably even have something in the basement.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=5700110
stormyla, you are SO bad, giving me way too many ideas! LOL I haven't been able to post lately but I love this thread and will have a few pictures of my "objects" to post soon. I've got so much to tell everyone! We're frantically trying to get ready for our Open House this weekend and I just haven't had much time on DG in the last few weeks. BUT, your pictures of driftwood have me thinking - I'm headed to Maine in a couple of weeks and I think I'll have to put driftwood on my "list"! LOL Holly, I don't think I'll be able to fit any as large as the one Ric and the boys dragged home but I might be able to find a "sculpture" like the one stormyla posted - might just have to tie it to the top of the van :)
okay. this doesn't really count as mid-atlantic, b/c it's up at our cottage in the poconos. But, our objects here, are a birdbath (dog is standing in it). And a cat with binoculars in the ferns watching the bird feeders.
That's so cute PGT. But the dog is real, right?? LOL
We consider all of Pa to be midatlantic but we do overlap with NE. Same for Jersey. Ladygardener is near Erie and there are others who post here from Bethlehem and north as well as Doc who is above Penn State.
So glad you joined us. You missed a lot of fun at the swap and should think about joining the next one, wherever. Some people brought children who had a lot of fun playing with Holly's grandson.
Wait... you mean the cat with binoculars is not real? ;-)
We couldn't teach Eliot to use binoculars, so we bought him a couple of window bird feeders as a Christmas present. Kitty TV! (Jim wouldn't have bought them for me, but he gladly got them for the cat. LOL)
Yes, we did have fun. LOL
When I first joined DG I went straight to the NE Forum as I think of myself living in the NE but found that I really had a bit more in common (plant wise) with the Mid-Atlantic group.
Here is my new frog, a Mothers Day gift from Jules, The Thinking Frog, don't know what frogs think about but he sure is cute.
Holly, he is so cute!!!! Maybe he's thinking about those tree frogs!!!
Here is the one I got for Ric, He loves gnomes. This one sits close to the birdbath pond. We do have fun with the Tree Frogs, wonder how the one is doing that Buttoneer took home?
Edited to add: Those little back spots are thistle seeds the thistle feeder isn't too far from the gnome.
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He's a real cutie, Holly! Never saw a Gnome on a frog before. And another great piece of wood. I thought Buttoneer was kidding about taking the tree frog home. Do they like to be near ponds?
Ooooh, love your garden objects. I have a bunch still in my garage. If I put them all out it would look like a yard sale. I just bought a granite mushroom at the farmer's market. They guy asked me if he could carry it out to the car for me. I said, oh no...I'll get it. I almost threw out my back, it's so heavy....duh, it's granite.
Here's a picture of my Dido, a gargoyle on the roof of Notre Dame. He's heavy too.
Do these chairs count as garden objects? They are my $18.95 each special from the grocery store. DH and I painted them purple.
Pam, I love your Dido. Still remember Quasimodo hanging from them! Yes, the purple chairs are fantastic garden objects. Are they plastic? I've been wondering how plastic would paint. Did you spray them?
Gargoyles have such personality, Love the purple chairs. There is a Krylon paint that is just for plastic, not sure how well it works as I haven't tried it yet.
Buttoneer, Has some frogs that she was breeding, she took a few of the tad poles with her, too. I don't think they will be tree frogs though as they came from the birdbath pond and I had a different type of frog in there.
Here are the last of my frogs, sitting on the edge of the box pond. This was taken last year.
That pond & fountain is one of my favorite things from your place, Holly! BTW, the pickerel weed you gave me is perched quite contentedly in the top of a water garden pot -- cute!
Holly, they are really pretty. But didn't I see something else interesting sitting on that pond lip?
This is a pretty common sight in my yard. Usually it's only 2 pair drying, but the swap prep called for lots of glove time!
Pam, I'm with you on the junk collection. Last year I only brought about a third of it out. Not even 1 pot left the basement last year. Now I'm digging them all out, which is a lot of work.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=6580364
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