The garden is going great. Yes i have spent a small fortune on many things, but i have ALSO managed to salvage a lot of stuff that has been lying around. That has been the best part of the exercise. Slowly clearing up the grounds and repurposing old stuff that has been lying there, sometimes for YEARS to make something beautiful. Never throw anything away is now my motto!!! Unless you have to throw it away of course. The progress so far...
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| My potting shelf |
So i love this picture. This shelf used to be a place to hang clothes. But we stopped using it. So now i use it to place my pots. In the garden plan this is where i am to raise seedlings. I am to build a set of beds for this purpose. This is just as good as i get round to it. The buckets - the grey one - was given to me by my mom... i have several and they are used to collect compost, collect bark, soak plants, etc... the BBQ i bought four yeas ago and after being out in the rain and wind and frost, it is still holding together. So we will be BBQing soon. AND it has this perfectly distressed look. I love that about most of the stuff i am finding, You'd pay top dollar for it in Avoca.
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| This bed now has honeysuckle, my favourite wildflower, and clematis growing... |
It also has lots of wildflower seed in it. Can't wait. The primroses will be planted around the pond later today. The other honeysuckle will be trailed along the wall.
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| This table! |
We have had this table since Oisin could stand up. I now use it to put stuff on when i am working on the garden. Like watercan, box of garden stuff. And the pots are all saved from over the years...
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| The blocks of wood are from our garden. |
We cut down a leilandeii type tree years ago and the wood was in the garden for ages. When i began working on it i started using it as edging for the beds. The bricks were from the building of the conservatory. And again, i found them lying about the garden and they have started to become part of our little structure here....
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| The fairy Ghin got from school's bric-a-brac shop |
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| The stone my dad gave to us |
We had strawberry plants from three years ago which have somehow survived... i have repotted them on in this terracotta jar with borage seeds. It will be red and blue when it comes up.
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This coriander came from the herb section at the supermarket. It has
survived the indoor to outdoor thing. I was really worried it wasn't going to survived for a long time. |
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My new rosemary and tarragon plants...
It will all be camomile when it starts to seed. |
Behind i have planted delphiniums and gladioli. And lots of wildflowers.
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A new board is added to our compost bin
The giant log is from the felled tree... |
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I dug the pond, put in pond liner and this is where most of the
salvaging took place around the garden... |
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The Ikea lamps are now truly distressed... the geegans are from Magilligan....the red flower pot has
also been lying about the garden for years. |
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All of this was found in the garden
I have not deiced what i am going to put in the glass bowl.
Maybe i will put some nice glass ornaments and let it fill up with water.... |
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| I made this part of the pond very shallow |
Many years ago i visited Michael Bennington who is a wildlife artist here. He had this gorgeous birdbath pond which i never forgot. It was only a tiny puddle and birds loved it. So i have recreated it on this side of the pond. The other side is a little deeper....
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| The view from my dining room |
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