In the Garden

Since we now have moved the shed, we have begun working on creating my dream backyard. Upon my many visits to the Antique Rose Emporium in Independence, Texas, I have gathered many ideas for what I'd like to do with our backyard. One idea I got was to create a circlular garden with a focal point in the center and six separate pieces (like a pizza) with different types of plants in each section. This is how we decided to do our circular garden: Gary had dug up this old SWB man hole lid on one of his job sites that is really quite decorative, not your typical man hole lid. I like to call it a "medallion." We placed the medallion in the center of our garden and used four landscape timbers to divide the circle into only four sections as our garden is on a smaller scale based on the size of the backyard. For the outside circle we used old brick that has been stored here, there, and everywhere on our property. We finally put some of that brick to good use!

We also used the old 1897 claw foot tub for a garden container. It came out of our old upstairs bathroom that we turned into a closet. We were hoping that it would fit in the downstairs bathroom, but it's a little bit too long. Anyway, we also used the old downstairs toilet for a plant container.

Today, Gary is building a picket fence to close up the backyard a little more and to better define the space. He is also building an arbor. More pictures to come soon...