The Shabby Gardener
Passionately messing around with nature!
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Shabby Potting Table for Christmas!!
My husband is just the best!!!! We found this old rusty piece of metal, and he made me a shabby potting table with it, he built the legs and base of pt 2x4's, then placed the metal peice on top, it is about 30" x 40" and 36" high. I added some of my shabby goodies - terra cotta pots, vintage watering can, antique hand pump (got on ebay), some old gardening tools and doodads, the cement ball I made from a mold as well as the cement angel. She has aged nicely, don't ya think! Then I placed my old rusty metal hen nesting box on top, I plan to put my tools, gloves, etc in there. I put the whole thing in front of my greenhouse. Christmas has come early! I am just in love with it! Take a peek below to see : )
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Finally cooling off slightly!!
Boy has it been hot, too hot to enjoy gardening, yet I have been very busy doing just that these past few weeks...my front yard was just about all grass with some mature trees when we first moved here 5 years ago..our home sits on the back half of one acre, so I have been creating small gardens around my house the past couple years and have just now concentrated on creating island gardens further out away from my home. It has been grueling these past months with such hot weather and humidity so I haven't been to anxious to get started but did and still got a long way to go to spruce up my front yard but I will get there one day..my goal is to create a sanctuary for not only myself but for the birds and wildlife we have around here. So I am really looking forward to cooler weather. Here are some pics I took in the past few weeks of my gardens. Hope everyone enjoys!
Louis Phillipe Rose
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Sweet Autumn Clematis
Louis Phillipe Rose
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Sweet Autumn Clematis
Front Yard
Glorious!
Double Take?!
Wild Salvia ~ Hummingbird Fav!
My out of control Pyracantha
My Beautiful Sycamore in the back yard
Love those crows
Regal Red Wing Blackbird
One of my favorite wild plants is Ironweed
Front Courtyard Garden
Friday, June 10, 2011
Lilies & Roses
Crinum Lily ~ Getting ready to open!
Wine Crinums
David Austin 'Abraham Darby'
David Austin 'Othello'
My Double Red Knockout Rose gone wild!
Sweet Almond Bush with a pollinator
Crape Myrtle 'Dynamite'
Blue Plumbago
Dill
Oakleaf Hydrangea
Female cardinal having lunch at the sunflower diner
Male House Finch also dining on seeds
Trumpet Vine
Time for a rest
Thursday, June 2, 2011
In and About my Garden Today
After the rain yesterday, everything is looking pretty good. We hadn't received any rain for 5 weeks prior to yesterday. It was like a deluge! 1' in one hour..and I loved it! So now my garden is looking quenched. Below are some pics during my outing today.
Native Honeysuckle ~ Hummingbird magnet!
Front Courtyard
yarrow
Sedum planter
My hydrangea, too much fertilizer, not enough flowers : (
Double rose of sharon
Fushia
Side Yard Shade Garden
Rain Lily
Cerestrum
Cerestrum
Wren House
Kitchen Deck ~ Virginia Creeper
Front Patio
Cuphea
Coreopsis
Rubeckia
Lions Ear
River Oats
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