Decorating the garden

» CarolWallace - SStrawberry houses

Oh Lynda - I WANT those!!! In several sizes. I've been after my husband for years to make something like that to put over tender plants that the deer seem to find delicious. He did make me one - a sort of gazebo-shaped piece made ofwood and lined in chicken wire, which has been used the past three years to protect thelatest new, tender and "it took me five years to find one of these" plants - but wood doesn't hold up well and it will probably not make it through this next season.

What a WONDERFUL decorative and practical idea!

And don't you LOVE decorating the garden?!

-- posted by CarolWallace

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» LyndaH - I sure do!

I love old things in the garden, but it's awfully difficult to find anything special enough to pop in. I would like some cloches made from weaved bamboo - and hurdles. I love hurdles in English gardens, but you don't see them here.

-- posted by LyndaH

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» Gay_Klok - Lynda

great ideas. I must show your strawberry houses to Kees too. We have used 3 of the old copper jam pans [the ones our hardy women settlers used] - I collected the three at auction sales. We dug them into the ground so the rims only showed and filled them with water. I tried to grow Lotus in them but the experiment failed. I guess it was too cold in Tasmania. But they would be perfect for miniature water lilies. I gravelled in between them and planted !!!! that little violet colour plant, I don't know the name but it is the most prolific introduced thug in the garden, so pretty in both form and flower I have to pull handfulls out though. It belongs to the mint family and makes a puple-violet sheet when in bloom

-- posted by Gay_Klok

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