Thegarden tour seasonhere in Minnesota is winding down , and I ’ve probably seen about 40 garden over the past month or so . One matter I notice in many of these lovely garden is the use of garden accessories , everything from absolutely invest containers and art to those humorous touching hiding between the plants . Accessories give the garden personality .
Some accessory are really a meaning part of the garden ’s structure , such as this skirt sculpture on a pedestal that I saw in a Duluth garden last week . The homeowner said the chick came from his grandfather ’s house and he had salvage it and the plinth to rate in his own garden . That kind of garden graphics is both meaningful and beautiful .
I also really like the bench below that was part of a garden on theHennepin County Master Gardeners’tour . Actually , I have tour this garden before — it ’s a stunner — but I do n’t remember this awful stone bench . Does this dispose as an accessory ? perhaps , mayhap not , but it for sure is coolheaded and it absolutely invites visitant to ride down and love the garden .
The bird was salvaged from this Duluth gardener’s grandfather’s house for placement in the garden.
Containers are the ultimate accessory and very - depressed - risk of exposure for those of us who do n’t believe we are artistic . A brightly one-sided gage or a mathematical group of magniloquent or stumpy or somehow unexpected pots makes a garden statement without being too out - there . The pool and plantings around this Pisces sens are so pretty that I have to allow in it was not until I got home from the tour and wait at my photos that I notice the cool container on top of the falls . Colorful and fun — a stark garden accessory .
But not all garden add-on have to be big . The three accessories below are small and you might not even notice them , but when you do , you have to smile . I bonk the personality of the edible asparagus on the rabbit fence around a Minnetonka veggie garden , the color of the watering can with falling water string of beads that I spotted on theTracy Garden and Quilt Tourearlier this month , and the humor of the house that was tucked amid the greenery in a garden in Minneapolis . That ’s gravid garden advice for all of us : Keep Calm and Get Dirty .
What are some of your favourite garden accessary ?
Have a seat in the shade on this garden bench.
This colorful fish-shaped pot is the perfect compliment to the waterfall and pond.
Keep Calm and ….
These asparagus add humor to the rabbit fencing around a vegetable garden.
A bright watering can and beads adds fun to the garden.
