July 1, 2008
AT THE BASKETBALL NET:
In our backyard is the kids’ old basketball net – still up, just because! I have some plants around it, mostly basil and our Moonglow Magnolia.
On our last roadtrip I purchased this for about $15 and she looks quite happy to be here but I’m sure she’s worried about basketball net that is above her head! :) 
ON THE SHADY SIDE:
Inspired by Zuki’s window well project at LumberJocks
I was going to close in my window wells in the same way but got sidetracked…... what I really wanted was something between the two windows. I had purchased a couple plants for the pond. They were supposedly for “full sun” but after half a day in the sun they wilted drastically. So they had to be dug up and moved elsewhere. The best spot for them was the section at the back of the house that just sat empty and looked, well, empty!
My brain started tossing out ideas and then I remembered the chunks of wood/bark that I had picked up at the lumberyard last year with plans of building a birdhouse out of them. They are no longer a birdhouse. They are now a new flowerbed.
I propped the three sections of bark up and held the corners in place with a couple of rocks. Then I filled the new flowerbed with some triplemix and stuck in the plants. 
I put hostas on the two corners and the Umbrella Plants that were mislabeled in the centre. I still have to put some ground cover in it to fill things out. Periwinkle will probably be my choice. (In the middle is a oil lamp thingy I bought years ago but falls over all the time. It never had oil in it—far too dangerous!)
I did notice as I was taking the pictures that the cat has already found the new “kitty litter box”. But – the plants are large enough that everything is safe. Yippee!
-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)
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Bon
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posted 101 days ago
Love the head.Your new garden really adds to that side of the house MsD.Like your little angels too. :-)
-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more
MsDebbieP
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posted 101 days ago
Thanks. The angels were some cheap things I picked up a few years ago – they are still hanging in although they have now divided into a front and back section. I should glue them back together I guess and get a couple more years out of them.
-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)
GrandmaT
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posted 101 days ago
I LOVE the new garden … GREAT use of the tree limb!!!! Hmmmmm, I may have to steal part of your idea. We had extra limbs from a tree cut down, so we just lined the hedges in the backyard. I have Boston Ivy beginning to grow under the hedges. So it seems to be creating a “bed” all by itself. But along the back fence, I have rocks … may take them out and add dirt like you did behind those limbs. Again, wow that looks great and wonderful idea!!!
-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b
XploreOrganics
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posted 101 days ago
hmmmm…copying my design eh MsD…Zuki (My DH) told me you might have your eye on it…hehehe
It did turn out nice. DH does manage to get closer to my plans lately….take a lot of swearing and eye rolling on my part :O but it turned out nice and once I get a few potted plants around the edge it should look brighter. The other good thing is that where I am short I can stand on it to see into the window above it …shhh DH will probably tell me not to stand on it -rolling eyes-.
-- Xploreorganics, 5b Canada, LFD 06-20
MsDebbieP
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posted 99 days ago
ha :)
A great design. I love it… don’t know if we’ll build something or not. I’ve owned the house for hmmm 25 years and it hasn’t been fixed yet!!!
-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)