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The Art of Gardening!

9/23/2019

Anna was an avid gardener and owned my home before me. She was in her 90s and tended the garden until her dying day. I never got to see the garden under her supervision it but had some idea of it when I took it over; 125 rose bushes, lots of unusual plants and flowers thriving where they had no business even growing. After I moved in, someone commented that the "The garden is so much more . . . free-flowing since you took over." I always loved that and how it helped me know that I was no longer simply tending her garden. I wish I had seen Anna's garden, but I have to believe she would like what I have done with it. For me, the art of gardening is:

Using plants that work
- Hardy varieties
- Draws butterflies and hummers
- Drought-tolerant
Avoiding chemicals
Not stressing over weeds (it makes people happy that know you have them too)
Creating pretty spaces

Incorporating art and humor, so people feel invited to enjoy it with you

I hope you enjoy the tour!

Welcome to my garden!

A 3-d sign that says Garden on a brick wall with two bird houses near it. To the left is a climbing hydrangea vine

Just incase anyone is not sure what they are looking at. Hee hee.

A blue door which serves as an trellis for a vine on the white siding of the house. Below are pots of begonias and below the light on the wall is a mosaic of sunflower.

Entrance for backdoor friends

A crock full of water with a spigot. A pottery sign in front says

Water station for furry friends

a ceramic wall hanging of three peas in pod with a tendril. All peas are smiling. One is bald, one has sun glasses and one has a skateboarder's cut.

Give Peas a Chance!

A ceramic plaque with a 3D red gerbra daisy that reads

Ceramic plaque of a favorite quote.

Plaque reads

A house blessing at front and back door

A Yellow sunflower

Volunteer sunflower

Steps railing inset with a piece of stained glass of a thistle flower.

Banister to the back door

white house with a white window box full of green, white and red caladiums, red cascading begonias and airy grass intermixed

Friend or foe? I did not plant this grass but love the texture it provides.

Large deep pink zinnia hosting a swallow tail butterfly

Zinnia and Swallowtail butterfly

3 ceramic free standing sunflowers that range from 4.5 feet to 7 feet tall with large green leaves.

Sunflowers that grow anywhere!

4 foot ceramic red gerbra daisy with 3 green leaves and a pot.

Drought tolerant Gerbra Daisy

Drought tolerant daisy

Stained glass window of a sunflower above a a large pot of red begonias

Stained glass window and angel wing begonias

Spiky blue flowers on a green plant

Victoria Blue Salvia

a tan and white garage with 5 stained glass windows of single flowers

Stained glass in the garage

a wooden bird house with a celestial theme. The top is blue ceramic

Jenny Wren home made by Carolyn Ellsworth Durrant 20 years ago.

A ceramic box birdhouse with a green slanted lid and a 3D dogwood branch detain not he front.

Pretty birdhouse where house sparrows are not welcome.

A plaque with a combination of words and images.

Fairy garden sign. May you touch stars and dragonflies, dance with fairies and sing to the moon.

Fairy garden house with a fairy sitting on top. 3 toadstools are behind.

Fairy garden

4 colorful cement leaves topped with fairy houses.

Fairy garden

2 Ceramic 3D birdhouse of Jean's Cats.

Bird houses

A clump of miniature black-eyed susans

miniature black-eyed Susans

A stained glass window of a stripped cat, Murry, Licking the head of tuxedo cat, Lenny.

Potting shed stained glass windows of the boys

A green white and gold mosaic gazing ball atop a 2 foot green cylinder. Aside of it sits a mossy green ceramic bunny

My first tall pot and a gazing ball made from Grandma's smashed pepper grinder

A yellow calla Lilli flower in a field of white speckled green leaves.

Yellow calla lily that returns every year. I think Anna helps with that.

a mosaic, cement table top of a an ocean scene with a sail boat

mosaic table top

a garden bell that is straw yellow with a texture of dragonflies with a green leaf ringer and topped with a red bird.

ceramic bird bell

White Oak Pottery

a path of round mosaic stepping stones, each made from broken pottery or glass

Where broken pottery comes to live.

A mosaic, cement table top with a kaleidoscope design of red, blue, yellow and green

Mosaic table top

my adorable neighbor dog who looks like a miniature wolf hound.

My neighbor/buddy Jake

A 12 inch square mosaic of a an orange and yellow sunflower with brown center, kaki green stem and leaves on a field of blue

Mosaic sunflower

allium garden sculpture of 3 garden stakes with a periwinkle blue spikes on top and bright green stems.

Allium Stakes - Gardener's Supply Company.

Gardeners Supply Company

A bird house of Jake's head with a red collar.

A birdhouse of Jake!

A Ceramic head of a yellow lab white a sign that says Tylor crossing. Tylor was my neighbor's dog before Jake.

Tylor's walkway sign

a grouping of black-eyed Susans

Black eyed susans

Giant thistle flower in bloom with 5 large buds.

My giant Thistle/Cardoon!

Thanks for stopping by!

Amy Holland

9/25/2019 03:17:18 pm

Wonderful post! Your gardens is also a gallery!

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Jean

9/28/2019 11:49:53 am

Thanks Amy. It is a fun place to tinker.

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