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Jun 28th, 2007 at 07:32 PM
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Helping the world one seed at a time When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. Mary Ann LaPensee
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Bumping up.................
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Thanks for starting a new one, Kenny! And thanks for continuing here, Wrennie!
(I feel like I've been rhyming all day - Penny, Wrennie, Kenny!!!)
Yep, Wrennie - that small one looks just like mine - aren't they cute?
I have a really LARGE one too, but can't find a pic of him - will have to do that tomorrow.
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Ok - here's Mr. BIG Toad! A friend gave him to me a few years ago for my "toad" garden - he's huge! And I just noticed the heart shaped wart under his left eye (on right side of picture) - cute!!!
Looks like it was from the same mold as yours, Wrennie - does yours have the heart too?
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I am a big fan of toad and frog art in the garden. He's fantastic!
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I had to go back to whimsey 1 and look. I never noticed one. Cant tell 100% in the pic. I'll look when I go home. Remind me to show you the catalog of GSI toads next time you're up.
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Isn't that wort cute! Who said worts were bad???
Last edited by kennyso; Jul 3rd, 2007 at 01:15 PM. Reason: how can I type bread instead of bad?
Helping the world one seed at a time When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. Mary Ann LaPensee
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She's blooming today!
An iron butterfly that I've had for years but never found quite the right thing to put in it. These are glass balls that I get at Christmas Tree Shops - they are in jute hangers - 3 sizes in each - for $3.99. A steal compared to what glass balls cost at beach areas!!!
(It's hard to see what is the real frame verses the shadows - tough picture to take!)
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Pretty! I love the colors of the glass.
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A Gnome's Best Friend
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The cat hanger is awesom in bloom!! Verrry Nice!!!!!
I like the butterfly and balls too!! will You be putting the Butterfly near the Pond??
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Very nice. I broke my gazing ball today, I picked it up to wash it and it slipped and fell. I've got to learn to leave things alone.
~~Tam~ You can bury all your troubles by digging in the dirt.
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i did look and my big toad does not have a heart wart.
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wow lynne! i love your butterfly
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heres my thing by the pond, [it realy gose in a fishtank but i like it by the pond i wanna find more to put around it and the silver griffin, below him is a silver dragon curled around a egg sorry if ya cant see em real good my camara is on the fritz i have another small silver dragon to put in there, and 3 blue dragons at the bottom. i resized the pics but still real small editin again cause the pic are bigger than before awwwman! you cant see it in the pic but the fishtank drawbridge thing reflects in the pond, its realy pretty to see, k im done editing
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This is all I have, it's my sprinkler attachment for watering the garden.
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Jul 7th, 2007 at 10:18 AM
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Glad I took a picture of it. I dropped it this morning on the patio and broke the front feet off, so I have no more whimsey in my yard.
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Oh no!! poor whimseyfrog! Can you glue it back together??
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iheart~ just bury it a little in soil & around some foliage and it will look like good!!!!!,
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I think I can glue it together. I have a tube of liquid nails, it should work.
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hope the liquid nails works, that frogs too cute!, if not, id do like diane says
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Very cute castle and dragon, Christy! Great frog, iheart (what IS your name please?), I hope you are able to fix it!
I thought I'd share some garden whimsey in my parents' gardens. Both my parents were golf NUTS! They lived and breathed GOLF in everything they did, until recently when they got too old, and my mom has Parkinson's now. She is 80 and my dad is 84.
My dad has collected golfballs FOREVER, and has made MANY things with them - a coffeetable, lampshades, clocks, etc - I will get pictures of those next time I'm there. Last year he decided to make some birdhouses! As you can tell... golf is NOT my thing! But I do give him credit for being VERY creative! I just wish he'd stop trying to give me one for my gardens!
This birdhouse is on a pole in the rock garden:
This one is hanging from a tree by the front door:
And this birdfeeder is on a pole by the garage:
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How very creative!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Those are cool! Golf isnt my thing either. but cool ideas!
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And here is a hanging planter that I bought for them last year - found it at IKEA and thought it looked just like a 1/2 golfball!
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I love those houses! It would be kind of neat to try spraypainting one of them a cool coral blue or fuschia, very eclectic! I'd love to order one, as my mom is a golf nut too! She tapes golf on TV so she doesn't miss the PGA when she is out gardening. Talk about: (hee hee) PS: My name is Sarah.
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Hi Sarah! You have NOOOOOOOOOOOO idea how HEAVY those birdhouses are!!! I thought the poor tree would come down when he hung it there!!! He has given his clocks to local banks, and can't find enough people to give them away to - it gives him something to do at this point in his life, you know? I think it would look cool being painted another color - great idea! But I'm sure my dad wouldn't care for that - he prides himself on showing the logos on the balls! :list:
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those are neat lynne! your dads creative maybe the golf corse or the people who golf there would like em? or he could sell em on e-bay?
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Angelblossom, I will have to take your advice and half bury my whimsey and retire it from sprinkler duty. The feet were broken in too many pieces (so sad). Oh well, I have my eye on an interesting piece of art I found on craigslist.com, what do you think of it? I am still more partial to frogs though. http://madison.craigslist.org/art/363110531.html
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Jul 10th, 2007 at 06:00 AM
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Oh, I just love the whimsey's here. The golf ball projects are very creative.
(No - I'm not into golf - just thinking about it makes me hot)
The frogs remind me of seeing African frogs on the nature channel the other night - they were as big as dinner plates.
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Jul 18th, 2007 at 09:37 PM
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thanks penny! that log is part hollow at the top, i was thinking of planting somthing in it to give him hair
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Very cute, great idea Christy.
~~Tam~ You can bury all your troubles by digging in the dirt.
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iheartflowers, what a unique item to add to your garden, I like it.
~~Tam~ You can bury all your troubles by digging in the dirt.
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Sibyl, I'm thinking hosta hair, variegated of course! It will give him that mad scientist look. hee hee.
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Jul 19th, 2007 at 06:27 AM
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Aug 12th, 2007 at 10:50 PM
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Can you see the pink flamingo and turtle on it's back with the silver ball on its tummy. I love garden whimsey.
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oooooooo! i love that turtle!!!!
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Christy what an awesome idea using the paperweights as pond whimsey!! They look like Colorful Bubbles! Reallllllly cool!!!( Hmmmm Giving me some ideas!!!)
Sheri I love love love the turtle and the Lamb( sheep) planter . What is in the corner by the Chimney it looks Square?
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this thread is soooo cool, now that i have DSL, i can look at the pics the same day i click on them! neat paper weights, i never thought of them by the pond!
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