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16 Jul 2019

What’s in the Garden? – B

by Crafty Gardener | posted in: Alphabetical Gardening | 12

The garden tour this week shares what’s in the garden starting with B. One of my favourite spring blooms are the bleeding hearts. This perennial plant loves the shady north facing gardens. The plants get very big and are covered … Continued

16 Sep 2018

Changing the Bottle Tree

by Crafty Gardener | posted in: The Garden 2018, Whimsy | 2

~ I have had a whimsical bottle tree in the garden since 2014 and it has gone through a few changes. The original was a lilac tree that just decided to stop growing, so I trimmed it to become the … Continued

28 Dec 2016

Winter Delights- Whimsy

by Crafty Gardener | posted in: Through My Lens, Whimsy | 1

Whether we like it or not, winter is here till almost the end of March. We moan about it, we curse it, we hate it but we should be looking for the delights of winter. It’s time to be more positive … Continued

3 Sep 2015

This is the New Home

by Crafty Gardener | posted in: Whimsy | 0

After just a day or two the bottle tree has a new home. Remember that it came down on the weekend and I found a temporary place for the bottles? The vines got cleared away and the trunk with branches … Continued

29 Aug 2015

Relocating the Bottle Tree

by Crafty Gardener | posted in: The Garden 2015, Whimsy | 0

This morning saw the end of a garden area in the garden that has been going for two years. The bottle tree came down. However all is not lost as I found a new home for the bottles till something … Continued

2 Aug 2015

The ‘Glory’ous Bottle Tree

by Crafty Gardener | posted in: The Garden 2015, Whimsy | 0

Have you ever visualized a garden project and then had it look just like you thought it would? Last year I could see the bottle tree covered in morning glory vines and looking ‘glory’ous. Right now the morning glory … Continued

18 Jan 2015

Converted to a Bottle Tree

by Crafty Gardener | posted in: Garden Projects, Whimsy | 0

One of the garden projects last year was to create a bottle tree using an old lilac bush that for some reason stopped growing. The branches got trimmed back so they would hold the coloured bottles.

17 Jun 2014

It’s “Bean” a Lilac Bush …

by Crafty Gardener | posted in: Vegetables, Whimsy | 0

… and now it’s a bottle tree bean support! One of the lilac bushes didn’t survive the winter and even though I talked nicely to it, trimmed off some broken bits it still didn’t give off any buds. So … Continued