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catscharm74
True Blue Farmgirl
4687 Posts
Heather
Texas
USA
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 Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 3:37:34 PM
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I have been taking Charlie for long walks in the neighborhood next to us. It is new housing but the people have put so much time and effort into the decore outside. One of my favorite houses has a cute little garden in front of a fence. The owner put a P I N K (drooling.. ) bike in there, filled the basket with flowers and adding planting all over. HOW CUTE!!! I love it. I was sad about the pink bike but it looked beat up. It was such a neat little corner of her garden. She also has planters hanging on her front porch with ribbon streamer poking out the bottom. In the wind, it is beautiful. Her house is a light sage green, so the pink is very soothing without looking obnoxious.
Heather
Yee-Haw, I am a cowgirl!!!
FARMGIRL #90 |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
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asnedecor
True Blue Farmgirl
1054 Posts
Anne
Portland
Or
USA
1054 Posts |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 10:12:45 AM
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So Heather is your garden decorated? I too love it when home owners take pride and add a little bit extra to the outside - shows their personalities and it is more interesting then the usual plot of green grass and a few shrubs. We have an old house, live in an old neighborhood but a few of our neighbors do the same thing. On our house we have a nice porch, so there are wicker chairs and a small bench used as a little table, hanging baskets, some flower pots down the steps and then two big square copper planters with flowers. Also I have a small decorative wheelbarrow filled with plants. Neighbor across the street did one of those glass sculptures where you stack plates and vases of various sizes in her flower bed, along with a wicker planter on the stoop, hanging baskets. It makes look welcoming.
Anne in Portland OR
"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them" Eyeore from Winnie the Pooh
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catscharm74
True Blue Farmgirl
4687 Posts
Heather
Texas
USA
4687 Posts |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 10:18:30 AM
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I don't have a garden Anne- : (
Wish I did. I live in an apartment right now. I have some chairs and a small table, inflatable pool for Charlie and two pots with plants in them, on my porch. It is simple for now.
Heather
Yee-Haw, I am a cowgirl!!!
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dutchy
True Blue Farmgirl
4427 Posts
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Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 10:46:01 AM
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OH Heather, did you HAVE to mention the PINK bike?? Drooling with you!!
As y'all know I LOVE pink, lol.
I would LOVE to have a pink bike in my garden, lol. Who knows, IF and when I buy a motor bike/scooter (??) I will paint my bike pink, plant flowers in the baskets and put it in my garden. WOW what a wonderful idea!!
PS WHY didn't you make a sneaky picture to show us?????
IF I do that I will post pictures, lol!!
Hugs from Marian/Dutchy, a farmgirl from the Netherlands :)
http://princess-of-pink-creations.blogspot.com/
my new BLOG.
I have added "new" creations, take a look :)
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Bellepepper
True Blue Farmgirl
1207 Posts
Belle
Coffeyville
KS
USA
1207 Posts |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 2:21:48 PM
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| I love garden junk. I have a ladderback chair that I painted red. It is in my red garden. Also gazing balls. I hung a bunch of beads on a low limb of the red bud tree. It is one of those bead things that you hang in a doorway. I call the area the fortune telling tree/place/thing. I try to have "things" in all the gardens. |
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Contrary Wife
True Blue Farmgirl
2164 Posts
Teresa Sue
Tekoa
WA
USA
2164 Posts |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 2:25:36 PM
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I had a pink bike when I was a girl, wow, I'd sure like to have it to put in my garden. I have bird feeders and waters, wooden angel signs, birdhouses, and a cool metal weather vane that has a frog on the top of it. I have a ladderback chair too, mine doesn't have a seat in it though, so I put a pot in it and planted flowers in it. I love garden "art".
Teresa Sue
Farmgirl Sister #316
"Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly." The Dalai Lama |
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catscharm74
True Blue Farmgirl
4687 Posts
Heather
Texas
USA
4687 Posts |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 2:45:28 PM
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I like those gardens that have little pretties tucked away in them...little suprises for you to enjoy. I love the use of old tossed of junk, with flowers and vines winding all through it.
Dutchy- OH MY GOSH I LOOOOVE LOOOOOVE LOOOOOVE <3 <3 <3 PINK!!!!!
Heather
Yee-Haw, I am a cowgirl!!!
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LeslieAnne
True Blue Farmgirl
71 Posts
LeslieAnne
Shallowater
Texas
USA
71 Posts |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 7:32:32 PM
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Thanks for the cool idea, Heather... I've got an old bike I might try that with... it's black, but... I've got paint!!!..
LeslieAnne...westTexas |
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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
2648 Posts
Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
2648 Posts |
Posted - Sep 21 2008 : 07:58:50 AM
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I have a couple of really pretty bowling balls (holes down) in one garden, a solid black bowling ball in another garden (it looks like a canon ball). I have a stone bench with a big piece of driftwood next to it. Lots of colorful rocks. A birdhouse sitting on a stump in another garden with a little red wagon next to it with moss and johnny jump-ups in it. The biggest piece I have is an old dredge bucket (oh, my is that thing heavy!) tipped on it's side in a flower bed with a stream of blue flowers spilling from it all the way to the front of the bed.
I like the bicycle idea, but don't have a neat old one to do that with. I'm always looking for new decorating ideas that I can use. I attempted a hen and chicks topiary, but only the bottom of it looks good. I have to re-stuff the chicken wire with moss as it all settled down to the bottom. That's on my to-do list for fall clean up.
Farmgirl Sister #35
"If you can not do great things, do small things in a great way." Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)
my blog: http://lisamariesbasketry.blogspot.com/
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Bellepepper
True Blue Farmgirl
1207 Posts
Belle
Coffeyville
KS
USA
1207 Posts |
Posted - Sep 21 2008 : 08:59:08 AM
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| Lisa, I have an all black bowling ball too. It is really rough looking. I plan to hotglue pennies all over it. I don't know where, but saw one once. Cool! |
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abigailc1973
True Blue Farmgirl
85 Posts
abigail
orlando
fl
USA
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Posted - Sep 21 2008 : 10:00:58 AM
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| Heather, that sounds so pretty, the bicylce and the streamers-I would have never thought of that. I'd like to decorate my garden more and actually had been trying to find some items to do so. I love recycling old junk and to re-purpose things.I also want to make some stepping stones and a bird bath with the terra cotta pots and saucers with the kids one of these days. Maybe this winter when the weather is a bit cooler. |
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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
2648 Posts
Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
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whiteraven
True Blue Farmgirl
134 Posts
Christa
Kansas City
MO
USA
134 Posts |
Posted - Sep 22 2008 : 06:17:41 AM
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I'm glad to kn ow I'm not the only ne with owling balls in my garden! I have a few that are strarting to look a little rough. I'll have to try the penny trick, or buttons! Great idea Belle! If any of you gals want bowling balls, ask an alley for those they are throwing out. You can usually get them for FREE.
whiteraven
farmgirl Sister #320
Life is what you make it! |
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asnedecor
True Blue Farmgirl
1054 Posts
Anne
Portland
Or
USA
1054 Posts |
Posted - Sep 22 2008 : 06:53:05 AM
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Oh Heather, sorry. But hey, I lived in apartments for a long time. Had railing flower boxes that I would put out. I would, if feasible, hang a wind chime and hanging baskets. If not, I always had flower pots brimming with as much as I could put in them.
Soon you will have a house and yard, it just takes time.
Anne in Portland
"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them" Eyeore from Winnie the Pooh
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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl
6418 Posts
Mary Beth
Stanwood
Wa 98292
USA
6418 Posts |
Posted - Sep 22 2008 : 07:31:35 AM
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I have some yard art in my gardens. Mostly faeries. I have a bed that I plant every year, last year it had impatiens and in the fall and winter cabbage and kale and this year I had pink petunias. I have lots of red pots and a couple of cement birdbaths and then little faeries stuck here and there. MB
www.strawberryhillsfarm.blogspot.com
www.day4plus.blogspot.com www.holyhouses-day4plus.blogspot.com
"Life may not be the party we hoped for...but while we are here we might as well dance!" |
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nampafarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
494 Posts
Kim
Nampa
ID
USA
494 Posts |
Posted - Sep 22 2008 : 3:00:57 PM
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I have a pink bike, my husbands says its embarrassing, but I dont care.....I also have my gardne decorated with yard art. I have a naked fairy with a blue glass ball by the front door, wooden boxes turned on end acting as end tables to put drinks on while sitting on my wooden park bench with the Harley davidson bike (like ours)inset in the back, I love old oil and water cans, they're everywhere. I love colored bowling balls in clay pots, I set them ut liek gazing balls. I collect the marble looking ones, not the flat colors, and not black ones. I have silverware end made into dragonflys in various plants, birdfeeders everywhere, I have a couple of old rot ireon bath tubs and a wooden chair between the two for bathing or tubbing in the back yard. There are old wooden ladders being used as trellises and I even have some old train track from a torn down restaurant/stopping place in California that I plan on using as a walk path from the side to the back yard. I have abalone shells from my abalone diving days that I plan on putting as a walk way side on a path, I always pick up some thing on a stick or a sign to put somewhere.I also have three scarecorsw. One for the veggie garden, one to watch over my cherry tree and one that I need a new head for, which I should be able to pick up one really soon.
Kim
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EnchantedWoodsGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
959 Posts
Kathy
New Jersey
USA
959 Posts |
Posted - Sep 29 2008 : 1:46:10 PM
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Kim your yard sounds so neat, why don't you post some pics or do you have a blog with pictures?
My husband does a lot of scrapping and I get first dibbs at what I want to keep. People throw out the neatest things that you can use in the garden/yard!
Kathy of the Enchanted Wood
Kathy of the Enchanted Wood
Farmgirl Sister #59
http://enchantedwoodmusings.blogspot.com/
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