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Post by desertwoman on Aug 3, 2022 22:15:48 GMT -5
emmsmommy posted a photo, in another thread, of beauty she has added to her garden. It got me thinking of an old thread we had many years ago, of garden art/objects we have in our gardens and I thought it would be fun to do it again. Some of my favorites: I actually use this sundial to help me keep track when I need to, while in the gardens an old cow bell from India another bell and a Balinese "Spirit House" A skull found in the desert and an old anchor Quinn's grandpa found in Nova Scotia My 60th birthday present Quinn had made
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Post by emmsmommy on Aug 4, 2022 3:51:48 GMT -5
desertwoman, I love it! While it's all unique, I'm captivated by that anchor. Is that antler holding the stone? Of course now I'm wanting to take the day off and play hooky so I can photograph some of my treasures. Ironically the short story I just turned in was about my herb bed built of found/scavanged objects that have meaning to me.
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Post by SpringRain🕊️ on Aug 4, 2022 11:18:03 GMT -5
What a great question and topic for discussion! I love to add ornaments and decorative items, whether they're purchased or created from items in the yard. When my father took down some large trees, we cut them up in chunks about 1 (+/-) feet long, and I used them in lieu of bricks to create borders in my beds. Paving stones were purchased on sale and used for the overall outlines of the beds. (I did something really stupid once and bought 100 (if I remember correctly) stones and brought them home at once. Kept my fingers crossed that I could get home safely w/o some of the stones destroying the undercarriage of the car!) When my father and I began digging to create the garden, we found huge chunks of concrete in the far end of the yard. I dragged them out and used them to create a border for my fern and Trillium garden. I also bought plastic ornaments which I either didn't know how to create or just wanted something then and there: a windmill (about 2.5-3' high), a fountain, a mother duck and babies, a swan and probably other items that I can't remember right now. That was part of the fun of gardening. And I still want to start over on it again; I've been saving straight branches cut down periodically to create supports and fences (like desertwoman has done with one area of her beds). I think landscaping and adding artistic features is part of the fun of gardening.
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Post by SpringRain🕊️ on Aug 4, 2022 11:19:33 GMT -5
desertwoman , I'm especially fond of your bell and "spirit house". Something I've always wanted to do as well is add rain bells to the front porch. Decades ago another gardening friend and I visited the Heavenly Scent Herb Farm a few hours away. We enjoyed it so much that we came back a few more times. heavenlyscentherbfarm.com/ Be sure to spend some time exploring the grounds and store. One of the clever displays was decoration of an old tree that had been cut down. The stump was perhaps 3 - 4' (+/-) in diameter, and had become the foundation for a display of fairy life. Handmade cottages nestled between foliage and small trees as well as pathways and fairy houses. I still remember how impressed I was, and how I decided that sooner or later, one day I would have that kind of fairy community on one of the stumps of unwanted trees, or perhaps a "community" of stumps.
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Post by desertwoman on Aug 4, 2022 11:30:57 GMT -5
I'm captivated by that anchor. Is that antler holding the stone? No, it's a forked piece of wood that is morticed through the bottom rocker piece, and carved a bit to finish it.
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Post by datgirl on Aug 4, 2022 13:07:07 GMT -5
Don't know where hubby got this, but I have it in the garden
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Post by desertwoman on Aug 4, 2022 14:53:52 GMT -5
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Post by datgirl on Aug 4, 2022 16:43:55 GMT -5
This monk is in a different flower bed. I don't even remember how old he is. He is clay and starting to look his age.
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Post by desertwoman on Aug 4, 2022 20:21:25 GMT -5
He is clay and starting to look his age. That's when it starts to have soul! He's beautiful.
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Post by binnylou on Aug 5, 2022 16:34:19 GMT -5
I have an old grinding stone in the flower garden. It serves no purpose, just leans against the barn foundation.
And in the barn, I have a herd of flamingos…maybe 11 or 12. I got them for cheap, cheap at the Hy-Vee store where I worked. I think they were out in the east yard when daughter got married at home.
On the potting bench I have three concrete stepping stones with hand prints of each grandchild. Names are scratched in to the concrete and the kids decorated with glass pebbles.
There’s a concrete rabbit at the barn’s foundation. My friend/former coworker made it for me to put in the flower garden for the wedding. It was made in a cake pan, painted white with a purple bow. He is now painted hot pink, but could use a new paint job. If youngest granddaughter comes to visit, maybe she would enjoy giving it a new look.
A copper spinner hangs in the crab tree. It has darkened with age, so it doesn’t show up very well. I’d like it bright and shiny, but too lazy to make it that way. Tomato product will restore the brilliance…I think I have a bag of citric acid/ascorbic acid someplace. I wonder if a solution of one of those would brighten it?
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Post by reuben on Aug 5, 2022 16:38:00 GMT -5
Well, I stand in it once in a while. I'm not sure that doing so adds to the beauty, however.
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Post by Wheelgarden on Aug 5, 2022 17:29:09 GMT -5
I need to add something like that to my garden again. For several years we had an old steel basin, half-buried on its side as though it had spilled, planted with sweet william dianthus.
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Post by reuben on Aug 5, 2022 17:51:15 GMT -5
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Post by pondgardener on Aug 9, 2022 20:39:03 GMT -5
When my daughter was one year old, I was pouring a border at our home and cast her footprints in the concrete and added the year. When we had another house built years later, I broke out the section that had her indentations in it and saved it. And when we moved again and I was constructing the main pond, I put it in a place where every time I look out the window, I am reminded of her.
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Post by Latitude33 on Aug 9, 2022 21:20:53 GMT -5
Objects of Interest and Beauty? Heavens no! Whimsy and Mirth, definitely.
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