Wednesday, June 17, 2009

my laundry basket garden!:-)

i love where we live:-)...it's true that we need more room at this point and are looking for a larger piece of land...but, i really love this place:-)

i love to garden and grow things...doesn't matter too much what i grow...beans are just as much fun as wrapping honeysuckle vine around a chair!:-)...i would still like to have a grass couch outside, but that's another story!:-)

the biggest challenge we've had living here is the dirt!...it is very, very, hard, red clay!...it's good for making pottery, but not very good for growing things!...

for about five years we have had truckloads of dirt brought in...bought bags and bags of top soil and tried to fix it!...nothing worked and nothing grew...

but, inspiration struck!:-)...and this year we have a laundry basket garden!:-)...we went to the dollar store and bought out every laundry basket they had!...the results have been spectacular!:-)...beets, potatoes, tomatos, beans, morning glories and cosmos, daisies and hydrangeas!:-)...

and the best part?...i can just walk outside my door and all these wonderful flowers are right at my feet ready to be pressed and turned into flowerart!:-)

enjoy my laundry basket garden!:-)

rebekah:-)
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3 comments:

Elizabeth said...

Wow rebekah! Way to be creative and tenacious! A laundry garden basket is a great idea!

North Fork Bed and Breakfast said...

Hi,I was so excited to see that you are a pressed flower artist. I looked at some of your work. It's amazing! I love pressed flowers. I don't know a whole lot about them. I'm learning. My mom is the one who really knows. Her work is unbelievable. She is a gifted artist. My family is in the greenhouse business. I was going to suggest container gardening to you but then finished reading about the laudry baskets. That's just great! I am a music teacher who dabbles in many things. Right now it's all about my gift shop. And more importantly, flowers. I've really been sucked into it. I don't look at anything the same. A field before was a field now it's mania!! It's great fun for sure!! I didn't even know there was a pressed flower guild. I'm so glad you found my blog!

North Fork Bed and Breakfast said...

Hi,
I just wrote this whole wonderful comment to you but since I have no clue what I'm doing, it doesn't exist! I love your work. I'm very excited that you found my blog and now I'm too tired to try to rewrite what I had said. I will say I was going to suggest container gardening but then read further and saw that you solved the problem!! Lisa