Last year this garden was weeds and trash. I found two old fashion window weights, chicken bones and tons of glass. I am crating a wild flower garden in this tiny strip of ground. Thanks to my parent’s generous established garden I have bee balm, spider wort, columbine, black-eye Susan’s and Daisies. I started cone flowers and more columbine and daisies from seed this winter to plant. We will see how it establishes itself this year and enjoy the blooms next year.
New Garden
I made a fairy garden as well. Making some items from Sculpy as well, and splurging on Blue Star Creeper and wooly tyme.
My fairy garden
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So I discovered the idea of fairy gardens and fell in love with them. I then spent about 6 months assembling the stuff for my building’s kids to make a garden each- and as always on a budget.
The garden bowls are chip bowls for a dollar each from a dollar store with holes melted into the bottom. I found extras and pebbles at the dollar store, thrift store and saved the shells from baked clams.
The cute bird baths, worms and stepping stones were made by the kids with sculpy, at the fraction of the cost of buying them.
I then bought value packs of Irish Moss, and the impatiens were donated by another family in the building.
G Man’s Garden
A girl’s garden
S darling’s garden
B’s Garden
The gift of special tomato plants didn’t work out for my dad (they died and didn’t have replacements) so I knit him up two gnome finger puppets instead.
I got these four place mats for $1.99, plus two belts for 66 Cents for a grand total of $2.65 for a lovely tote bag.
Place mat bag
I am the proud owner of 15 varieties of mint! Some I scavenged, some I bought at a local nursery and five I bought online from http://fragrantfields.com/mints-perennials.aspx .
They are:
1. Sweet mint 1- started from seed last year.
2. Sweet mint 2- bought from home depot and made cuttings.
3. Sweet mint 3- from my Dad’s garden
4. Mystery Mint- might be sweet, might be curly found in an alley.
5. Orange mint- from home depot
6. Chocolate mint- from home depot
7. Lemon mint- local nursery
8. Mohjito mint- local nursery
9. Berries and cream- local nursery
10. Pineapple Mint- local nursery
11. Ginger Mint- http://fragrantfields.com
12. Sweet Pear- http://fragrantfields.com
13. Candy Pops- http://fragrantfields.com
14. Iced Hazelnut- http://fragrantfields.com
15. Fruit Sorbet – http://fragrantfields.com
Do you remember this table cloth that I got for $3.90 (I paid more than usual) but I got 6 bags out of this one.
Striped bags
Remember this table cloth? Now it is 5 Morse bags. The table cloth cost me $2.00 at the Salvation army. Great deal!
Fall Leaves Morse bag
I am trying to sell my first knitting pattern for $3.00 each download.
Leafy Seadragon
I waited two years for this. I believe it is a cherry blossom hellebore. My Apricot blush had all the leaves die this year, which it is replacing. I am not sure if it should bloom. In the catalog it said they would bloom in “the first signs of spring” but they waited until the end of April to bloom for me.
Hellebore