My Garden...

My little garden is coming along nicely.
I love Cottage gardens- so I try to emulate
that in my yard. 

These are a few of my 

 favorite things this summer.

These  Zinna's were a surprise.

I have never seen them before

but I planted them from seed.

That's not how they looked on the 

seed packet but I sure like them.

My milk weed has turned into a big bush and

I have been busy finding Monarch eggs and

keeping them safe as they become 

butterflies and releasing them.

This is a cement pipe someone gave me.

I filled it with dirt and flowers for

an unusual container.

Flowers are blooming beautifully!

The gate to my butterfly garden...

I love the sticks we added

to the gate.  Definitely not the

norm in a subdivision but I like it!

I strung up these little pots of flowers on

the arbor with just some

twine I had laying around. 

Aren't they cute?

You can't even see the containers

in the garden that I showed you in Spring

Our goldfish pond is still 

thriving with lucky feeder fish.

They got to grow up to be big!

Those floating guards in the water

seem to keep the Herons from

eating our fish.

I did a little spruce up on the greenhouse.

 I made a little sign to hang above the door.

I gave my shelf a new coat

of paint.

The mirrors were falling out

of this succulent holder .

So I repaired it, gave it a coat

of paint and glued on some

new moss.

I made a little boxwood wreath for 

the door.

These old planters

got a new coat of

spray paint.

Don't be afraid to paint

planters that you find

cheap.  If they don't

match your color scheme.

Spray paint can fix that easily.

That is what I did with the planters 

above.

Cooking herbs grow around my greenhouse.

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I have more pics but I will save them for another

post.  I will end this post with

my favorite pictures of my 

Greenhouse.

It just looks so cute with the 

lights on. I treated myself

one year with this greenhouse when I got

a bonus at work.  I always wanted one

and it is still one of my

favorite things I ever

bought!

Hope you are having a wonderful

summer!