This is the little garden I’ve been working on this week. It is called the Wish, Dream, Believe Garden. Because I had this old sign from a junk store. And it fit nicely on the trellis until the Black-eyed Susan vine climbs up it.
This is just a little space between my pavilion and the garage. I couldn’t dig a garden due to the massive roots in the ground. If you look closely you can see a big root sticking out in the lower left-hand corner. A killer root several inches thick that I can’t budge.
So what to do with this funky little space? The solution was a container garden.
I had two more metal chairs stacked in the garage. I spray-painted them bright yellow. In the yard I found two good-sized plastic pots that fit perfectly inside.
Here’s a tip when you have big containers. It would cost a lot to fill them with potting soil. So improvise. I live in the piney wood region. So I typically have lots of pine cones in my front yard. That was not the case yesterday. I like to throw pine cones in the bottom of big pots, atop shards of broken pottery for drainage, because pinecones will eventually break down.
Discarded plastic pots from the nursery will not break down, unfortunately. But they will help fill the pot so you don’t need as much soil. Unless you’re planting something like a tree that will have a vast root system, you can fill this about halfway up and then add your potting soil.
This little garden is what I gaze at when I sit in my favorite chair on the pavilion. This is my view.
I’m not one for drab colors. And I consider these brown chairs rather drab. But, they were cheap at Home Depot last year. I don’t want to have them recovered. So I used bright colors in my garden beyond them for interest.
The conservatory, dusty with yellow pollen that I see I need to clean off.
Remember the red chair? It’s a match to the now-yellow ones. The fourth is being used in the house at the closet-turned-writing-desk nook in the guest room. See how much the red chair garden has filled out over the past couple of weeks?
So I got stuff out of my garage, and prettied it up to be used elsewhere. Mission accomplished.
I am liking the contrast of yellow and purple. What do you think?
And the yellow and pink. I had not anticipated using this Mexican grass in the pot. But Charlie Ross started eating it and was sick night before last. So it had to come up out of the ground. And it’s kind of quirky. So maybe that’s just a bonus of added texture.
My one Black-eyed Susan bloom. I hope this will take off all the way up the trellis.
To this sign above it. Which gave my garden its name. It actually got hung on the trellis because I didn’t know if I could pound a masonry nail into the brick wall!
Charlie looks much better out here sunning himself when he’s not sick from eating Mexican grass.
Raindrops are still clinging to the flowers.
And here’s my rooster, freshly decked out in red on the deck.
Now I can relax for the weekend. And sit and look at my new container garden.
