| I have a huge piece of driftwood that resembles Darth
Vader ~ Dibble |
| A broken air conditioner that makes a good potting
table ~ Shirl |
| 'Miss Prisilla Lady Bug" -- a yard art addition
created by my husband
from a 1940 Ford Deluxe Hub-Cap, EGR Valve, and lawn mower wheel
adjuster
bars! ~ Lin |
The neatest thing I saw was a whole row of old
bowling balls, lined
up in a
curving border underneath a row of hostas. The foliage overflowed the
bowling balls. ~ Molly |
I have pair of pink plastic flamingos and a wooden
carving of a Little
Blue Heron. ~ Karen |
I have an old picture frame leaning against a stump
where the basil
and
oregano grow up around it. ~ Angela |
I have a pottery frog on a lily pad upon which rides
a leprechaun who
guards the garden. ~ Mary Anne |
Our neighbours cat . . . after a trip to the
taxidermist . . . we move
it
everyday so they think it is still using our gardens for a litter box
~ Jeanne |
| The most interesting thing in my garden is a old
ceramic bed pan that
gets hung up with plants cascading out of both holes. ~ Miss Cathy. |
I have a 6 ft tall man made of welding rebar
with
large washers for
eyes. I hang finch feeders on his arms. During the
Christmas
season,
he becomes a she with lights that look like a dress. ~ Mona |
| My wife for one, a collection of old bowling balls is
another, and
various skulls. But the funniest looking thing must be me. ~ John |
In my woodland walk garden is a tree with opening at
bottom. Out of
scrap wood, I made a door and window with window box full of flowers.
You would swear an elf lives there! ~ Denise |
I have 2 planters, each is made out of half of an
aluminum beer keg.
~ Janice |
I have a big hole in the ground, about five feet
across, left by a
tree
that was blown over by Hurricane Floyd. I'm still trying to
remove
some of
the roots. ~ Chris |
| I have a lobster trap that I purchased in Nova Scotia
when I lived
there. I now live in land-locked St. Albert, Alberta!!! I won't catch
many
lobsters but it sure is a great conversation piece! ~ Janet |
Two "yard art" squirrels painted with day glow lime
green halloween
hair
spray . . . compliments of my creative daughter (It hasn't washed off,
yet!).
~ Deb |
I've got a genuine Brisbane City Council Parking
Meter! The full
100%
brass clockwork workings in it and it still goes. It's $1 an
hour to
park here! Paul |
A voodoo Garden Blessing Stix, a Tequila TEDDY, the
Garden Ghoul
who you can see on the web, and ME of course! ~ Rose |
In my garden lives the bottom half of a naked
mannequin, turned upside
down, as if she has just plunged into the earth. I change her slippers
each month to fit the season. ~ Rose of Charlotte |
The broken down, stripped remains of a 1988 Suzuki
Samurai which my
husband dragged into the garden for parts for his own truck. I'm going
to fill it with earth and daisies this year! ~ Jill |
I have a huge piece of driftwood that I mounted on 2
stakes in my garden
that is the best looking piece of yard art you have ever seen. It
seems to be quite a conversation piece to any visitors coming in by
boat
or on land.
~ June |
| I have the Holy Grail. It's buried at about 200
meters depth. ~ Jorge |
| I have my old winter boots that will contain soil and
impatiens are
going; a flamingo; and a couple of ceramic frogs and plastic snakes
that
do great keeping some bugs away. ~ Carguy
|
| Hugs and camomile tea ~ Marinka |
I have a woodchuck who is faster than a blooming
pansy, more powerful
than a sunken fence, and able to leap to a morning glory in a single
bound.
~ Cynthia |
Bearded dragons - handsome lizards, maximum l6 inches
long and quite
tame. Only bad habit: laying eggs in our gravel driveway. Yesterday a 6
inch baby one had a 4 inch grasshopper protruding from its mouth!
~ Beryl |
There are a lot of CD-roms hanging in our trees to
keep the
birds away. ~ Maren |
| I have a cement head we call "the tomato god"
which got my friend
a B in art class and then he gave it to me. ~ Gardmar |
I have Airedales. Sam, who stalks daisies, wrestles
them to the ground
and romps in a triumphant victory lap around the garden.
I have Bryon who eats the asparagus and then pees on them. I have
Bonnie
who licks the raspberries from the canes. And now I have Happy
Head
who eats nasturtiums. ~ Vicki |
| Two rusted iron old "things" used to stop leaves to
go down the gutter
which look good as mini pot holders, Three circles of rusted iron
formerly
part of deceased oak barrels (1 french/2 US) used as memory wreaths; in
the greenhouse a picture of Geoff Hamilton to keep me company in the
garden.
~ Kokliko |
| I have a fairly realistic looking statue of a Native
American, hunting,
but he's only about two feet tall. ~ Judi |
I have an old toilet in the garden! The tank is
filled with snaps and
baby's-breath & the bowl with pansies geraniums & bacopa!!!!!
~ Tammy |
| A John Deere 4320! And no, I don't live on a
farm. My neighbour
brought his dad's tractor over to 'till' my little vegetable patch. It
was a bit of over kill to say the least. ~ Pat |
Five wild, yet somewhat distinguished turkeys that
parade single file
out of the woods, circle around the lawn, then approach their
destination
- The Russian Olive and the High Bush Cranberry . . . Secure that they
have the area to themselves, they drop the 'distinguished' guise and
beginning
this athletic and amusing dance (or self-propelled flopping) that
shoots
them up to the level of the berries . . . All winter the dance has
become
more and more ummm -- spectacular as they ran out of berries on the
lower
parts of the bushes. ~ Liatris |
I have an old wok (non rusty) which has
metamorphasized into
a birdbath
and some old bricks in a heap which I never put away and now clematis
cover them. ~ Goddess of dirt |
| Old black cast iron bucket-a-day stove, filled with
soil and Hosta.
~ Mom |
I have made a privacy fence around my patio out of
vintage doors.
In
place of the glass in the windows I display hanging baskets of
annuals
in the frame. One door has a mirror in that space to reflect
back on
the patio and garden. Honeysuckle is growing up the back of the
doors.
~ Lynn |
I made a man of bark that comes out of the earth at
the thigh. His
pine root
hands hold the fountain that streams into my pond. My 2yr. old calls
him bark boy. ~ Kim |
| I manage a garden centre, and I'm not sure if my
customers or employees
are the strangest things there! -- Maybe customers who describe a plant
as having green leaves! ~ Cherie |
| 3 years ago I made a 4 ft + diameter sphere from
willow and birch branches.
I grow morning glory and sweet peas on it. At night I light candle in
the
middle of it. ~ cleOme~ |
| We have unwanted stones & pebbles in the garden
right now -- lots
of them. We need to add top soil and peat moss and start from
scratch
this year at our new condo. Please wish us well : ) ~ Liz |
| In the green foliage of the garden you can see my 14
gnomes and helpers
weeding my garden. ~ Dianne |
| I have an old wooden ladder with shelves made of old
wooden porch swing
parts that is a great place for driftwood, enamelware watering can,
hand
trowel and of course flowers. ~ Lisa |
| I have a fountain made from a 17 gallon wash tub with
a 2 gallon watering
can pouring water into the wash tub. I also have fluorescent pink iron
flamingo, with a place for potted flowers in it's back. ~ Sandy
|
| I can't take credit for this, but my sister has a
transvestite elf
in her garden. She also has a plastic alien. She has better taste than
I do. ~ Katherine |
| I have recycled a solid wood California King waterbed
frame into a
raised bed vegetable garden. It's both whimsical and functional! ~ Brenda |
| Trying a new approach to Annihilate aphids, I
purchased 1500
ladybugs at our local nursery. After following the instruction, I
anxiously
went out the third day to see if any were still on my orange tree. And
low and behold there was two lady bugs doing the big nasty right in my
front yard in full view of the neighbours. I got my camera with the
telephoto
lens and took their picture. As I took their picture (which by the way
did not deter their actions one bit!), a THIRD lady bug came out and
then
there was a ménage de trois. For privacy and discretion, I have
put a black line across their faces. ~ Sharon |
| My son (three years old) and I are constantly ridding
the garden of
monstrous weeds and other undesirables (we seem to grow rocks as well
as
plants.) In order to keep a steady flow of things going we enlist the
help
of our favourite Tonka monster truck . . . my son faithfully retrieves
the weeds from me as I yank them up and transports them out of our
precious
piece of earth. At the end of each session of yanking and hauling
he parks the truck in the centre of the garden as if to warn future
intruders
of their eminent doom. ~ Nancy |
I have a metal wheel barrow that looks like it came
across the Oregon
Trail, it is so abused. I have an old log sitting on it with
flowers
in it.
~ Marie |
| Digging in the garden one day, I found a brick path
that led to the
(now gone) outhouse. I hated the thought of covering up this very
important
path in ones life. So I decided to restore it. I put a toilet at the
end
of it. (An excellent planter!) ~ Maria |
| I have 3 old tires my son carted home from a field.
We filled them
with soil and plant vegetables in them. This year we're going to use a
Stork Screen door for vines to climb up. Recycling at it's best! We
also
have various 'critters' decorating our garden including a cement
alligator
-- which we would never see in a garden in Canada! ~ Robin |
One day my eye was caught by a brightly coloured
plastic toy shopping
cart
laying on my neighbour's trash pile. I couldn't resist taking
it and putting
it into my garden. I will put potted Marigolds into it with some
vining
plants, and set it in the midst of my multicoloured flower bed.
It has
weathered three winters so it will last for some years ahead.
Since I have
"naughty" animals in my garden that love to chew the ground level
flowers,
this cart raises the flowers up to a saving height. ~ Elsie |
| Another peculiar item in my garden, is a hardened
sack of cement, which
now supports a cement shell shaped bowl into which I have planted
various
creeper type Sedum, that gives my garden a unique feature.
Sometime
I can add a colourful potted flowering plant. The cement has
hardened
to the point that I cannot move it, so its now probably a permanent
feature
in the garden. ~ Esie |
I have a huge piece of driftwood which my family and
I came across
on a boat trip around the islands of the Sunshine Coast BC. It really
is
huge! We packed it onto our small motor boat (and it nearly sank us)
but
we were determined to bring it back home to Alberta.
I also have 2 'friendlyish' looking gargoyle dudes which I got as a
birthday gift a couple of years ago. They are there to protect my iris
against iris borer. So far so good! ~ Shauna |
| I started my garden years ago. Since then I
have collected rocks
from around the world on my various wanderings and placed them in my
garden.
I have rocks from Kenora and as far out as Laos (Asia). They make
quite a conversation piece. ~ Tammy |
| I have a five foot hole in my backyard - my friend
thought that I needed
a compost bin - how do I retrieve the compost once it is done?? ~ Vera |
| I have a wicker Canada goose with only one wing; the
other wing is
outstretched as though to catch a passing breeze. He/she/it is nestled
among the ferns and a large hosta (aka slug treat). ~ Karen
|
| In our garden we have an old brick barbecue that
serves as a makeshift
vine trellis and houses a stone dwarf as well! ~ Tanya |
| Our boat, "Frog" sits on the other side of the
fishing shed. The Frog
was our favourite toy when our children were small. St. Joseph Island,
Canada was the Frog's and our vacation spot. ~ Chris |
In my garden there is a duck
And a yellow Hot Wheels truck
Sometimes there appears an inline skate
When that happens I get irate! ~ The Mad Poet |
| Hillbilly Gazing Ball - The gazing ball in my garden
is the hub cap
off a tractor-trailor. It was free, won't break like a fancy,
expensive
glass ball and reflects the garden scene around it while it glistens in
the sun in all its stainless steel beauty. ~ Carol |
I have an old broom in my garden. With the
handle stuck into
the ground, then I put sunglasses in the top and add some lips. Over
the
years the top of the broom has fallen down over the glasses so that it
looks like hair.
~ Donna |
I have my husbands old red golf bag by my garden. It
holds my garden
tools.
~ Donna |
| In my Garden I have 6 old tires that will become a
veggie garden, and
an old green metal fence meant to keep the dogs out, but of course it
does
not work. And strange doggie toys. There is also a mound of old bricks
which I laughingly call a barbecue. ~ Lindy |
| I have a four foot high domed birdcage sitting over
my peony to prevent
my German Shepherd from using the peony as a personal pillow. ~ Theresa |
| On some days I would say my 2 boys and their gear,
but in reality I
have 4 candle holders that we made from threaded pole, a gutter guard
and
a container . . . it works great until it rains then the candles go out
. . . go figure! ~ Diana |
| I have my grandmother's old bread mixing pans and pie
plates in the
middle of my garden, filled with my favourite flowers. ~ Paulette |
| An autographed photo of Winston Churchill smoking a
cigar. ~ Norman |
A very old twin bed frame that this year will be
supporting Yugoslavian
watermelons . . . the bed will not be on it's side as one might suspect
. . .but sitting in it's proper position so that there is a mattress of
watermelon vines with watermelon pillows spread about. ~ Maurie |
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