Re: Making Garden Art.
Originally Posted by
Puddle Duck
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Love seeing the pics of your garden, LF. The second one is lovely.
Quite time consuming looking after plants in pots, that why my hanging baskets are seldom successful as others.
Stopped doing those now.
Yes, got stuck in a bit, yesterday, will do lawn today (or half of it ,I think) if it's dried out enough. At least the sun is shining in between the clouds.
Those plaster of paris models would be great for the children to make. We had boxed kits as children. Great for a wet afternoon.
Do you grow veg too ?
Nope no veg PD, I am afraid it really is to small for anything apart from pots. Its great for maintaining when I first moved it it was the first thing I changed bending over digging weeds out and dead stuff was no good for the breathing. So I made some planters raised the beds and had the block paving done with the conservatory.The conservatory took up a big chunk of space but well worth it.
Trouble was as friends and family came to visit I ended up wasting so much of my time making planters for them all only spending a small amount of time making anything in the garden. Cost me a small fortune in wood.
I did spend one late summer and winter making models of bears and ducks and butterfly's and other small animals . I painted them and glittered quite a few of them because Christmas was upon us and I gave 3 boxes to the local hospice St Lukes in Basildon. They could either sell them or use them some other way. Never got a call for anymore guess they never wanted anymore and then I took a box around to their shop in Pitsea and handed them over all careful like. The assistant came along and just poured them into a carrier bag and threw the box away.I could hear the sound of them smashing together in the bag. Think thats when I stopped making them. I was fuming but our lass pulled me away.
Good to hear your getting back on top of the garden sorry to read you stopped with the basket's, why was that. ? You do know you should never put baskets in a windy spot around the house because they do dry out quicker. Also if you have not got a well at the bottom of the basket you should use something like cardboard that swells when watered and keep the soil above damp. I do that and I have wells also but its best to be safe and stop the plants dying.
Time for my nap been to BQ and bought 4 plants for a tenner and 3x50l multi purpose compost, which I had to load and not long lifted out the car and through the house. Also hit Farm Foods and Poundland.
So I am gonna need that nap.