Not Just About Plants

Jessie returned to her Primrose Hill home this morning.

A warm breeze swept the garden as I walked around with my camera this afternoon.

Mat and Becky gave us the bigger owl in this picture some years ago. I bought the pedestal from Molly’s Den and the leaden hat from a First Gallery Christmas exhibition. Including the one on the wall these are just three of the

100+ owls which can be found around the garden.

Other birds include ceramic white doves and various examples in coloured glass;

two others join an owl at the feet of Florence sculpture bought at the long gone Molly’s Den.

The Water Boy was found in bits in the undergrowth covering the south end of the garden; the frogs a little nearer the house;

the butler sinks, painted peeling blue by our predecessors, lay full of weeds in the middle of the Dead End gravel path – I moved them to their current position.

We have a number of ladybirds and various dragons.

The curlicue resting on mossy stone is a collapsed plant stand; we inherited the wheels form our predecessors; the tortoise was a present from Shelly and Ron;

Becky gave Jackie the bull head sculpture fixed to the shed wall; I

gave her the pig (galvanised container came from the Efford Recycling Centre when it was simply the Council dump);

Elizabeth gave us the wooden poppy when our granddaughter Poppy was born. It stands in the Rose Garden where

the Summer and Autumn lichen-covered sculptures span one of our reflecting mirrors;

the hanging trowel and wooden mushrooms were presents from me;

the fairy light feature given by Jessie some years ago has lost its original illumination so Jackie has rigged up a solar powered alternative.

Gardening is not just about plants.

This evening we reprised yesterday’s roast lamb meal with fresh vegetables.

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  4. I enjoyed the tour of your garden art and accessories.
    “Gardening is not just about plants.”–In your case, it’s a lot of hard work and constant care.

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  7. I adore all of your wonderful garden ornaments and the dragons remind me of a poem from “Perceptions” Derrick … “My Dragon, Frozen in Time”

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  8. Whenever I visit the garden centre and spot the owls, I think of Jackie.

    It’s funny that you should choose this title; I said almost the same thing this week. Following Victoria’s butchering last year of the lower branches of one of our Christmas trees, she managed to dig out half-buried garden gnomes from underneath. This week, I began to make a little gnome garden in the bare patch under the tree.

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  10. I love all those garden ornaments! Especially impressive are the owls, but how sweet it is that so many of the ornaments were given at special times. In Maine, most ornaments must come in during the winter. Different for Jackie, I expect.

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  14. You garden could be a very good tourist centre. I loved going through it with you today. Thank you for showing it to us. You must really love owls.

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  19. Lovely ornament-adorned stroll through your garden, love the owls! My mother and sister also do that, in our childhood’s garden, embellish the pathways and so with beautiful or cute garden items. Good idea for a post 🙂

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  21. So many Lovely Ones live in your garden and bring you joy! You know I especially love the owls! They are my faves! I feel in love with owls when I was a little girl. 🙂
    (((HUGS))) ❤️❤️❤️
    PS…”A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb.” – Joseph W. Beach

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  28. Love your garden decorations. This summer Wrangler and I had to compromise on my stake decor. If they go in a flower pot or bed it is okay buy near them it is not because it makes weed eating hard for him

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