Gypsy Bandana: Spring has Sprung!

It’s the time of year to show off spring projects and blooms again!

This is a path I laid a couple of weekends ago… we put a dog kennel in last fall, and the path to it quickly became mud. This is my remedy, plus it frames the garden well. The bed to the left is my last remaining bed that needs to be dealt with. I planted onions, chives, and iris’ there many moons ago, but it has basically been on its own since we bought the house…well that is going to change this year! Once done I’ll of course post some pics…

And the entrance to the path…(the dogs had turned this corner into a mud hole from turning and running on a 90degree angle so much). We used the Texas paver Dude bought last time we were down there (6 years ago?), and gathered random stones from around the yard and behind the garage.. imagine it with grass or ground cover growing around the stones…is going to be way cute!

Oh, and the cement plugs we used were in the yard when we bought the house. We have dug up and re-used them all over the place. These were stacked behind the garage from a previous re-landscaping we did. The bricks were salvaged from a house down the street from us a few years ago. They were left over from a project and stacked on the side of the road with a ‘free’ sign on them. We pulled over, loaded up the back of the Land Rover with as many as it would hold, and have had them stacked behind the garage waiting for a project. Nice to have that storage space back there!

So total cost of the path? My LABOR! Not bad, eh?

Now for our new flower containers! We bought a few pansies, daisy’s and other plants to brighten up some containers in the yard. I found the basket, macrame holder, and basket liners in the garage, remnants of a similar idea a few years ago. Put it all together and wah lah!

This is a darling copper teakettle I found at Savers for $3. It really isn’t a heavy, high quality item, but I instantly thought “planter!” when I found it. Turned out way cute with purple daisies planted in it!

While making one of my shopping excursions to Ikea while working on the basement hallway, I came across these cute aluminum pots. They were about $1.50 each, so I bought half a dozen. Turns out they look great hanging on our little lattice garden fence full of pansies!

The boys each planted of the taller ones, we cant wait until they all start blooming!

Another Texas yard accent… Dude bought this at a garden store in Texarkana for his mom before she died.. when we went down for her funeral, his sister gave it back to him. We’ve been potting various flowers in it ever since.. it’s a cute yard accent!

This cool milk bucket was an award to my store when I was managing West Marine. It was full of cookies when we got it. Once again it has been a cute planter since then! I had it in the house until this year, but I’m loving it on my front porch!