Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Yes, I Do Other Things Besides Quilt-I Garden!!

Since it's May and my 2011 flowers are still babies I am showing you a photo of last yr's garden because I do other things beside quilt!! I love to garden and this is a photo of the awesome garden shed Ken made using recycled materials such as weathered wood, windows from an old milking barn, old rust hinges, old chair, old bear trap on the wall, old garden tools, old door, a rusty horse shoe to hook the door etc. I just found out the Landree/Ceesay Gardens are selected in the Marinette/Menominee area Garden Walk on July 15-16, 2011. We live on a quiet street and not a lot of people see my flowers, Ken's stained glass stepping stones and benches, the pond with fish and frogs, our many flea market/"American Picker" finds and my funky garden art. So here's our big chance! I'll post more about this in July when I get the details.

I have a gardening friend, Jennifer Larabbe,who manages the flower shed at Walter Brothers True Value, and she lent me this awesome gardening magazine "Flea Market Gardening" and I discovered they have a website, www.fleamarketgardening.com and a Facebook page, www.facebook.com/fleamarketgardening. Very cool to see other people garden in the same style as Ken and I. Check out the magazine, blog and Facebook page!!

12 comments:

  1. what a little lovely utopia that shed is!
    Thanks for finding me on MixedMedia -- wish we could get more folks to post their blogs! But I'm following yours now, and here is mine:


    http://sandrasfiberworks.blogspot.com/

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  2. that is just so lovely!
    i'm following you now..
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    http://giftofquills.blogspot.com/

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  3. Came here from FAMM and love your work. Am now following your blog. Maybe you can follow mine too -- it's at http://kmyoungster.blogspot.com/ . Plus I love the title of this posting; I am a gardener too!

    Kim

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  4. Wow almost exactly 1 year later and I'm finding this. I was wondering if you made the rocks that border the little garden or, if not, where you got them...

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  5. Love your recycled shed - we've done a couple ourselves and understand the hard work involved!

    www.peartreecottage.me

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  6. What a lovely shed! I am not really into pink but i have to say that in this particular situation pink is just perfect!

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  9. I LOVE, LOVE this garden shed and it is exactly what I want for my garden.

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    1. Thanks! My BF designed and built it in 2009 from most recycled materials. The framing and roofing is new. I change it with the holidays and love it!!

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    2. WoW! This looks like a cross between simply shabby chic and Old English or French Woodworking. You have accented this with the perfect amount of pink to make the wood "pop"! Wish you could create me a garden cottage at my house!

      Tammy
      Plant America Nursery

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    3. Thanks for the nice words! This is a photo from 2011 and I have changed my shed through the years and have more current photos on my Pinterest page under MY Cottage Garden. :)

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