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Making Your Garden Your Own (Without Spending A Fortune!)Read the article this discussion is about
This archived discussion is "read only". « Previous 1 2 Next » » Gay_Klok - Also for Gary It is possible to get the old copper boilers [that the poor housewife had to use for the weekly washing] at auction sales. They were bought by more modern home-makers for boiling up jam a few years ago but the jam making is not so much a yearly project any more, so the price has gone down. I purchased over a shortish period, three of these and I have made a mini water garden with them. Dug them in with just enough of the now greening copper showing and I have them planted with a mini water lily in one and another water plant in another. I covered the land between them with small rounded stones [just bigger than pebbles] that I found on the property. It is a very well remarked upon spot when the garden is open to visitors-- posted by Gay_Klok » JaneHollis - Good idea Gay, that sounds like a lovely idea for a water feature. Have you a photo on your pages somewhere? I love the use of copper in the garden, the tarnishing helps it blend in so much more than other metals.-- posted by JaneHollis » Gay_Klok - Photo Somewhere I do have a photo but it will be a lot easier to take a new photo next weekend! Unless I can recognize it in the files here [not all my photos are here] All my sculpture except a real lead small bird bath are made in a mixture of brass an copper. In some of the photos of the Big Lake you may see "The Big Cockatoo" by Stephen Walker [studied with Henry Moore and is a friend of mine] and we often have a flock of black cockatoos fly over. I think they live in our wooded hills-- posted by Gay_Klok -- posted by Gay_Klok » JaneHollis - Thanks for the photo Gay. What gave you the inspiration for the idea in the first place?I can't wait until my daughter is a little older and we can incorporate more water into the garden (although we are intending to add a safe water feature to the patio this summer). -- posted by JaneHollis » Gay_Klok - Grandchildren Jane, I waited so long for grandchildren taht I went ahead and wall to wall carpeted the house in oyster pink [here in the town] and the "Big Pond Cinderella" is very close to the house at "Kibbenjelok" We have so much water in tasmania [lakes and rivers] that the children learn to swim at a very early age. In fact one granddaughter has been attending classes since she was about 8 months old and is now practically swimmimg. Then I worry they get too onfident!! Nothing for it but to never lose sight of the little dears-- posted by Gay_Klok » Gay_Klok - Forgot I didn't answer your question. I cannot remember how I came up with the idea! Kees used to go to the weekly auctions on Saturday when I was a marriage celebrant and I think he came home with the coppers now and again. Then I gave him the bronze sculpture "Swallows" by Stephen Walker for Christmas and had to place it somewhere. I thought up the idea but there were only two coppers so had to wait until he found a third [I always like things in odd numbers in the garden] Then I placed the "Swallows" somewhere else. Then I had the chance to buy the cherub from someone who had lived in England for years, Kees found my third and away we went! it is very hard to get genuine antique lead garden pieces in Aussie, awful concrete repros are used-- posted by Gay_Klok » JaneHollis - Water safety We have started taking Anna to the local swimming pool regularly - perhaps we should enrol her for swimming lessons now, then we can start creating ponds in the garden!It will do us no harm, though, to hold off for a while, whilst we plan our scheme properly. With a small garden it is vital to make sure things are the right size and in the right place. I really fancy two pools that look like one connected by a bridge (but the bridge is actually a path). That way my husband can have fish in one pool, and I can grow plants in the other! -- posted by JaneHollis « Previous 1 2 Next » Please follow the guidelines set forth in the Suite101 Posting Etiquette when adding to the discussion. |
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