Judy's Garden

Judy, Judy, Judy,

How Does Your Garden Grow?

(with vintage lawn chairs all in a row)

I didn't mean to be gone for so many days. My internet was down for a couple of days.

Why? I do not know.

But I'm awfully glad it's back.

Today I'm going to share my neighborhood friend Judy's Garden.

It is truly a garden of ingenuity.

It's full of perennials gathered over the years from friend's gardens, 

naturally seeded local wild flowers and plants and lots of knick knacks and junky treasures.

Judy has a talent for finding vintage patio furniture.

Those two chairs above? She found for little or nothing and had them professionally 

painted orange. 

They compliment the orange trim on her house.

Many of the ferns and tropicals her in her garden over winter in her greenhouse.

More vintage furniture painted orange creates a sitting group by the house.

 Judy used to sell cement garden statuary. 

Her garden is full of it! I love those toadstools!

Here a knock out rose grows in a container.

These roses over winter just fine in their containers. Judy just mulches well before winter.

That fern is just getting started. 

 Lot's of garden art in this garden. Judy's latest passion is adding colored glass to the mix.

She lucked upon this bottle tree. 

She met up with someone who had it and didn't want it. 

She quickly snapped it up and has been busy filling it with blue bottles.

blue bottles hang from the trees above

These blue bottles previously held Bud Light Platinum.

Her husband's job is to drink the beer so Judy can hang them in the garden.

A top a pedestal rests this hand blown glass ball full of glass fish. 

There's always a spot for geraniums.  

A big foxtail fern will be huge by end of this summer. 

 a row of vintage lawn chairs await their turn to be painted

 Isn't this a pretty patio set? Another set that someone else was just going to throw away.

The top had gotten broken but Judy came up with a replacement and painted it pink.

 funny metal flowers

 I'll be anxious to visit the garden in a month or so when the ferns will be back in their glory.

 this dark corner of the garden is full of wild violets and hostas

 I've never thought to plant hostas in pots! I'm so going to try this.

A mermaid fountain provides ambient noise.

I went by Judy's last Sunday night and ended up sitting in the garden visiting with her till way past dark.

A Happy Little Place in the Middle of the City.

Full of flowers, plants and whimsy!

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Let's Cool Off

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Of course it's beastly hot here. Oh it's been hotter...so I'm counting my blessings.

Only 101 today. 

I'm working on my hutch turned potting bench...painting it. 

Hope to reveal next week.

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I thought I'd post photos today of pretty cooling fountains.

I don't have a fountain in my backyard but so wish I did.

My friend Petra called me Saturday and said she now has a pool in her backyard.

I posted about her yard here.

This is Petra's pretty little backyard.

I feared that the pool would take over.

But it's placed out of range of this photo...to the very back of the yard.

It's a large blow up pool.

I had to immediately go over and see.

She said they were on sale for $39.99 at Ace Hardware and that she and two neighbors

each got one. 

I guess the heat has gone to their heads!

On Sunday she was in and out of it all day pretending she was on vacation.

She had drinks and music and was having a very good time all by herself.

It was like she was at a redneck resort.

The things us single middle aged women do to entertain ourselves!

At least we don't need any approval to do such silly things.

She warned me she didn't think it a good idea for me to get one with all my dogs.

No worries...I wasn't tempted. 

It looks like this - sans kids.

Crazy! Good thing she got it after she was awarded yard of the month.

I teased that we were going to revoke her award.

Anyway...back to my potting bench...

which looks like this...now.

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but will look something like this when done.

The walls of my house are even the color of the walls in the photo.
And since my potting bench will sit against the walls of my house...I think this will be nice.

I had been thinking of painting it this shade of blue green but when I found this image...
I knew for sure.

Back to fountains...

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All that green coolness surrounding

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I did have a wall fountain but filled it with plants last year.

It was doing beautifully but is struggling now in the heat.

This is a bit of it here.

The creeping jenny is now growing way down the sides.

But the flowers are not so pretty.

They'll come back though when this heat subsides.

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I'd love to feel the splash of this water.

I bet the dogs would too.

although....

A few years ago I bought the weenies a mister thinking they would enjoy the 

fine mist cooling their little bodies.

Nope...they hated it.

They blinked their little eyes against the mist and ran inside.

They wanted nothing to do with it.

silly dogs

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I love the look of this formal garden.

Ok, back to painting for me.

I hope you are staying cool.

Do you know anyone with a redneck resort in their backyard?

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