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| Round grommets and sprockets and buttons and knobs glued on a clear plastic backing. Mary saves all Virgin Mary paraphernalia she finds because it's her namesake. I like the sprocket art - my sister used to take my husband's old sprockets and hang them on her wall. |
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| The back patio. I found the use of different tiles (both type and color) intriguing. I'm still trying to figure out if I like it. |
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| Mary's garden is fenced off from the rest of the yard to protect it from their dogs. She also has a ginormous sunflower that has an itty-bitty flower on it. |
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| Bike sprockets and left over metal petals make for a pretty upcycled flower. |
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| Pots and lamps. And the really cool stuff - metal plates making up the tiled 'floor'. |
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| Mary (in the cowboy hat) talking to another garden tour-goer. Mary's veggie garden is watered via a Sub-Irrigation System (Google Sub Irrigation Planters) so all of her plants are in buckets instead of in the ground. They're all watered by buried 2-liter bottles connected by PVC pipes so everything gets watered when she turns on the water. |
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| An awesome use of an old lantern |
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| A collection of words and cool finds. This actually reminds me of my desk at work to some extent - every time I go out and do field work I bring a cool rock or some other find back so I have pieces of "creek glass", marbles, rocks, and bottle caps all sitting on the window sill. |
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| A doorknob garden interspersed with sedums. |
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| A succulent planter with another Virgin Mary statue in the background. |
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| A rose with a goblet (?) in the background. |
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| The bowl part was found one week and the stand was found a few months later. |
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| Like seriously? Prickly pear in an old fireplace? I mean, crap man - that's freaking AWESOME! Note: The husband does not think this is awesome. Oh well, I'll just have to recreate this at my parent's house or something - it's totally Austin. |
My other posts on this garden tour:
The Glass Garden
6 comments:
Awww, thank you. I am going to take the fact that it feels like a South Austin garden as a compliment!
(and the porch is a Texas mosaic - hence the different colors. Its so big that sometimes it takes people a while to realized it! Look again and you will see the star where Austin is and the fish tiles in the gulf)
What an interesting garden. Love the art , especially the fire pit. Is that a small cactus or a really big fireplace?
Darn, that prickly pear fire pit is genius! How could anyone not like that?
to answer @willsfamilyacres.com, the pricky pear is Baby Rita, which is a dwarf optunia.
Its supposed to be purplish - but my experience is that only cold weather brings out the purple. Which makes it a really nice plant for winter containers.
@Goneahead - Ah yes - of course it's Texas. Now that I know that, it makes a lot more sense and doesn't just look like different colors of tile fit together.
Hey..long time no speak..and your garden is an inspiration. I have finally moved, licked my house into some kind of order and discovered that my garden has quite literally no soil! I'm doing pots until I can persuade a construction company to drop som leftovers off on my next spring!
Photos of house to follow as soon as I've taken some!
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