Doodle has the best job ever. She works at a kickin' garden center where Little Turtle and I just absolutely couldn't contain ourselves, flitting here and there like butterflies taking in all that cool gardeny stuff. Plants! Pots! Trees! Rocks! Roses! Shrubs! Herbs! Garden Pretties! It was amazing. The sheer variety was almost more than I could bear.One of my favorite finds was this tipsy cauldron, courtesy of a broken leg, which allows it to sit all askew in the most charming manner. All their pots were highly discounted anyway, so I got this "broken" one for next to nothing. I personally like it exactly as it is, with the aquarium rock gravel creating an inviting pool for our little mascots. I can't decide if the Two Turtles are climbing in for a swim or escaping their 'pond' to explore their garden. Either way, Juniper seems to like their company. I think she was lonely in her rocky bed all alone.
So we had fun soaking up all of the gardeny eye candy at the nursery, got some low growing "stepable" herbs to add some good smelling variety to the moss carpet and some cherry tomatoes for our back deck (which will so be the scene of my next horticultural endeavor when Two Turtles Garden is complete... though with gardens, complete is a relative term, happily.)
The deck has 0% planting space, as it is literally a deck with a fence all the way around, so all plantses will have to be of the container loving variety. We've currently got a strawberry pot, a big planter with herbs, a bush blueberry that came back from last year, much to my surprise, and a Mexican feather grass (named "Beaker") out back. Other than adding the cherry tomatoes, I haven't thought too deeply about other ideas for out there, but I'm actively collecting planters and containers and things from freecycle, so I'm sure creativity will be sparkable when I'm ready to get to work out there.
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