I Planted a Few New Plants Today and Brought out some Garden Junk

To many of you it may seem like junk, but I am quite attached to all of these little treasures.

Take this shovel for instance.

Yes, the one that is only half there.

It broke years ago when we were digging out the rockwall garden.

Every time I see it sitting in the shed it reminds me of the three summers I spent digging out roots, rocks and poison ivy with that very shovel.

Now I can admire it every time I walk this path.

I bought a red caladium yesterday and planted it near the shovels.

I also planted that small coneflower. I keep planting coneflowers and they keep disappearing

On Sunday at our BBQ party, we were talking about invasive plants and my SIL mentioned that coneflowers were one of hers. What? I can't even get one plant to stay alive for two years! I find black-eyed Susans invasive. She can't them to grow well in her garden. Isn't that odd? I guess it all depends on the soil content.

Here is the frontal view of this side.


Since I decided not to plant annuals on the deck this year, I had a bunch of watering cans as well as the milk cans you've been seeing, that were still in the storage shed. I decided to haul them all out and scatter them in different places in the gardens.




To complete my objets d'art I leaned my old wheelbarrow against a tree among some taller perennials.


I am now off to see my hunky dentist. I have a 7:00 a.m. appointment. I am an early riser so I love that he takes such early appointments. I had a root canal a few weeks back and today I get the tooth crowned.