What Lurks in Your Garden?

“Coffee. Garden. Coffee.
Does a good morning need anything else?
~Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com

The rain had stopped and the sun was trying really hard to shine. So I put on my gumboots and went out to look at what damage the hail and rain had done to my patio garden.

I was amazed to see just what lurks in my tiny patio garden.

The fly was just having a rest in the sunshine.

Lotte was checking things out

This statue always reminds me of the closeness of my sisters
and has moved with me many times over the years

It’s sad that this thing has lost it’s tail and has to rely
on the pot to hold it up

This was the most hideous thing you have ever seen
given to me as part of a joke by 2 grandsons last Christmas.
~~Fortunately~~ Unfortunately, it has lost all its colours

The duck lurks in amongst the planting

The Mexican sleeps among the plants and weeds

My daughter bought this at a charity auction and it has
now been in four different gardens

Most of these things that lurk in my garden have been bought for me by the family. Some as jokes such as the gnome and the Mexican but all have special memories attached.

So what lurks in your garden today?

Saturday Stroll (growingyoungereachday.wordpress.com)
Lurking (coopersview.wordpress.com)

24 responses to “What Lurks in Your Garden?”

Hallysann | October 16, 2011 at 22:37 | Reply

Wonderful !
I love garden ornaments … just as well really since Rabbitt and Alice seem to be doing such a good job between them at “trimming” the bottom layer of the plants. I’ll follow up with an inspired post soon, thanks. 🙂

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- Judith | October 17, 2011 at 08:13 | Reply
  
  Look forward to your post. 🙂
  
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Crowing Crone Joss | October 17, 2011 at 01:18 | Reply

oh what a beautiful garden you have, filled with precious memories, with mirth, and lovely colours. Thank you for sharing it with us.
walk in beauty this day.

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- Judith | October 17, 2011 at 08:19 | Reply
  
  Well the garden is miniscule. I replaced the grass with the exposed aggregate and now have mostly pots. But I like to look out on it and see the changes. I wrote various logs on the progress from grass (couldn’t call it lawn) to patio in June and July if you are interested – https://growingyoungereachday.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/no-change-today
  
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nrhatch | October 17, 2011 at 06:39 | Reply

Thanks for the tour of your garden.

I just planted tomatoes, squash and marigolds in our container garden. Fingers crossed.

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- Judith | October 17, 2011 at 08:20 | Reply
  
  I look forward to hearing of your success – I am off today to buy more herbs to put in my pots outside the kitchen window. 🙂
  
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jannatwrites | October 17, 2011 at 08:44 | Reply

I love the pictures of your garden – it’s so pretty and green! We have a few vegetable plants, but other than that, we let the desert landscape take over so we conserve water.

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- Judith | October 17, 2011 at 08:50 | Reply
  
  Thanks – I hadn’t realised that you lived in the desert. Lovely, wild areas that I have visited on occasion both in the US and in Australia. Can’t imagine what it would be like living there permanently though!
  
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jacquelincangro | October 17, 2011 at 09:32 | Reply

I don’t have a garden at all (does a potted plant on a fire escape count?) so I love to see all of your plantings and garden statues. I know gardens are a lot of work but there is so much reward. It’s so relaxing just being amongst the flowers.

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- Judith | October 17, 2011 at 11:07 | Reply
  
  A potted plant on a fire escape most certainly counts. My garden is tiny but I have filled the space with plants and have many pots also dotted around. Summer is coming Hoorah!
  
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diggingher | October 17, 2011 at 13:29 | Reply

Particulary like that sleeping mexican.

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- Judith | October 17, 2011 at 21:40 | Reply
  
  Thanks – at one time there was a Mexican with a knife in his back. He seems to have disappeared from view.:)
  
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Lady Jennie | October 18, 2011 at 00:40 | Reply

Looks like not much hail damage, thank goodness. 🙂 And lots of green!

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- Judith | October 18, 2011 at 08:00 | Reply
  
  Thanks for dropping by! The azaleas and some of the ranunculas have rain damage but I shall clear away the damaged flowers and hope for the best. 🙂
  
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ryoko861 | October 18, 2011 at 01:02 | Reply

I love seeing what other people have added to their gardens! It inspires me. Unfortunately, winter is coming and I’ve had to put all my little garden decor away. I hope your summer brings many beautiful blooms!

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- Judith | October 18, 2011 at 08:01 | Reply
  
  Winters are not too hard here and so we leave all the garden items out year round. Thanks for the comment. After a dreary winter I am looking forward to summer.:)
  
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Sandi Ormsby | October 18, 2011 at 05:05 | Reply

I don’t have a garden, so I must enjoy yours! Thank you for sharing. We live in a condo, upstairs unit. My husband has planted a couple of pots here and there with the kids, but nothing last too long. We always take a long trip (like our month long driving vacation over the summer) or it’s too hot, or we forget to water the plants, etc. However, out of 4, 2 of them are still doing really well. Our carrotts and habanero peppers (which will be too hot to eat, anyway) are flourishing. It’s a good thing my husbands has done this with the kids, or they would not know what planting was…:)

Love the “Mexican.” He’s taking a siesta!
Sandi
http://www.ahhsome.wordpress.com
Lake Forest, CA USA

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Judith | October 18, 2011 at 08:03 | Reply

Hi Sandi and thanks for the comment. It is a very small garden – well a patio surrounded by some planting if I am telling the truth. But I enjoy pottering around but DON’T enjoy weeding. 🙂

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therealsharon | October 18, 2011 at 11:35 | Reply

Love the pictures from your garden and the statue that reminds you of your sister is really cool and unique looking! I like it!
My first thought of the bird without a tail using the pot to hold it up was how it reminds me of how each of you sometimes need a “pot” or person to hold us up when we lose a part of ourselves…metaphorically. 🙂

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- Judith | October 18, 2011 at 15:07 | Reply
  
  The two women with their hair joined always remind me of my sisters. And did so from the first time I set eyes on the statue.
  Good point about the bird and the pot. I hadn’t thought of that but it is so true. We all need help from time to time; and aren’t we lucky that we can not only ask for help and receive it, but sometimes offer help to others too.
  
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pattisj | October 27, 2011 at 18:50 | Reply

I have a little rabbit sculpture that sits in a bed of snow-on-the-mountain. Miss Utility came and spray-painted where cables are run underground, so the garden center can plant a tree for us this week. I found the bunny knocked over, out into the yard. I blamed those doing the marking, but there was an opossum in our yard last night. Either one could have been the culprit.

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- Judith | October 27, 2011 at 22:36 | Reply
  
  I don’t know snow-on-the-mountain but then as I have already said, I am not a gardener. And Miss Utility? And the Garden Centre will plant a tree for you? Obviously, you are a well loved member of your community. 😀
  
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