New Pictures of Vine House

A kitty cat bird house

We added some cut up logs. I would like to make these into a table and some chairs.

I put in my Pot Man that my sister and parents made for me several years ago.

I also hung up some gourds and plants in the window frames

Spring Garden Show

We went to the home and garden show this weekend and this chair caught my eye!

And I really want to make this salad table. The table and chairs are all planted in different kinds of lettuce! Maybe this would keep the rabbits from eating my salad garden!

Winter Rains

With all the rain we have been getting I thought I would post a few pictures to show how lush and green everything is.

But with all the rain comes the weeds! Somewhere in this weed mess is our propane tank! Blaine our propane guy is not going to be happy!

The Vine House

This is my lastest project. We got a sandbox and swing off of craiglist. And being in southern Calif it is so hot in the summer that I didn't want my grandchildren getting sunburned while playing. So I moved an old homemade clothesline into the garden area and covered it with wire mesh. I have a passion vine plant that just wants to cover the wire mesh. So hopefully next summer we will be able to play under the passion vine. The mini pumpkins were planted here last year and I just threw them in one place so I could put them in my compost pile. The front of the vine house has old window frames that I wired to the clothesline.

The Sunflower House

Last week I cleaned up my sunflower house and here is what it looks like in the month on January. I should of taken a "before" picture. The recent storms tore my cover off the swing and there were lots of weeds and dead sunflowers lying around!






The Granddaughters in their matching coats swinging!

Bird house gourds

I planted last year a whole packet of birdhouse gourd seed and here are the results! There's 59 of them. They look like little soldiers all lined up!

Anyone interested in doing a craft with their kids let me know--I have lots to give away!

Rose Garden Marker Stones

Yesterday, I decided to try my hand at making these marker stones. I want to label the names of my roses -I think the names of roses add to their beauty as well ( I have a rose that is called Bees Knees--love that name!!). I saw these stones being made on Rebecca's Garden and thought that they would be perfect for the rose garden! I really had a hard time finding the kit. Supposedly Joann has them but none of the stores carried it. So I had to order the kits on line. They do offer many different kinds of kits to choose from. I got it from Amazon. The kit made only enough for 3 stones. But it tells you what kind of cement to buy to make more.

These are the names of 3 roses that I have.