Garden furniture.

The latest post at A Growing Obsession has a photo of a great looking elephant pot. In general the pot shops and nurseries I visit in Sydney have a very limited range of terracotta and glazed pots in equally limited colours and shapes. Not that they don't have their place. I have quite a few of them on my little patch to afford me the ability to move certain plants around depending on season, weather and whim.

I also don't have the gardening budget that I would like and am probably lucky that the temptation is not laid before me in abundance.

But bit by bit I find I am given or recycle items for the garden. My first attempt at fish was a water feature. It took me less than a minute after installation to realise that I was essentially putting the fish in the equivalent of 19th century concrete bear pits, so I bought a bigger pond and pump to afford them a better lifestyle. That pretty much got rid of the need for the water feature. So I took out the innards and turned it into this.

I've only just started to appreciate succulents, but have a little work to do on arrangement. Still it should grow into itself.

I also had a small cane shelf that I've had for over twenty years languishing in the shed. A little linseed oil to water proof it and some potted colour breathes new life into it.

 

 

 And the last thing I reserected this weekend was another item that had been sitting in a back room covered in junk. An old table that needed a new coat of stain on the legs, and a good clean of the surprisingly heavy marble top. A perfect spot for an orchid. No, I don't know what it is. People keep giving me orchids. Happily I haven't so far managed to kill any of them.

 

 

Alison has told me to keep away from the dining setting.