More garden news..............................................

I have not had the money to buy plants this year. Well, I did buy a few shrubs but that was the end of that. As my husband is still paying for those I am in the dog house so to speak. So.........I am being thrifty. The original spending spree only managed to fill one basket that I put on the deck.

I have to say it is very pretty at the moment. I have never before bought these and I love them



The back garden is thriving

The vegetable garden is doing well and I will do a seperate post on that later. Meanwhile my climbing thingie is looking really nice this year.

Some things come back year after year. Did not disappoint this year.

I did buy one house plant that I will take in this Fall because its one of those easy to propogate things. Another I want later is a Purple Passion.

I am not sure this will show up very well but I made this from two old barrel hoops and a glass ball

My first wooden wind chimes that I was inspired to make from my visit to the glass shop in Suttons Bay

In my initial purchase were a tray of begonias and I have some of those in this old lamp that I made in ceramics many years ago

My Roses are all doing well, it's amazing how a little more light can make such a difference. I will have more roses to show later as most are just in bud at the moment. They all survived the winter so there is that.

I am re-purposing my old things from last year and I have had to sit and paint all the old flower stakes so that they can be used again this year. I used nail polish and glitter and they look pretty good. So maybe when I am finished with the front I can show some of those.

I have had luck with my bottle trees and have 4 now. I will probably try to do a few more because I just love glass

I am jumping around in my back garden trying to show a lot of it.

This was one of my mended plant stakes, the ladybug had died, I found a red stone and fixed it. I have learned this year that there is no need to keep buying things because I like them, its more satisfying to mend and fix what I have. (shussshhhhh so I can buy plants instead)

I fixed this one up with a glass thing (bell) that I had no use for

Well, I must stop now because I could keep going on. So much to show since last time and it does drag on. So for tonight I will close and try to load more pictures.