Garden enchantments or oddments???????

My 'pet' caterpillar

(soon to be Gulf Fritillary butterfly)

 is doing fine.

 Eating ferociously on the passion vine leaves.

I guess I should give him (or her) a name.

Any ideas????

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Walking around my garden this morning

I was thinking

What can I do with this stump in my yard?

I actually have two stumps I could make projects out of.

They are home to little creatures,

and sometimes I see a little garter snake.

I think I will make planters out of the stumps.

I guess that's another project where I will need help from my DH.

He'll just get out his trusty chain saw and hollow out the middle,

enough to put soil in, and then I can plant

my 'hen and chicks',

and let them spill over the side.

Any other ideas?

Fairy house maybe?

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I don't know why,

but I am enchanted by little things like

tendrils.

Maybe it's because of it's spiral form.

I guess it doesn't take much to thrill me!!!!  LOL

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My Blue Bottle Tree

I love my blue bottle tree

my DH built for me awhile back.

I need to get busy acquiring more blue bottles

for another one!!!!!!

Savor the Day!

Yvonne

Whimsical garden additions

What do you do

 when you want to have a little garden

around one of your trees,

but the roots are too close

to the top of the ground

to plant anything?

You make an oobos garden!

AND...

what do you do with 5 cases of empty blue wine bottles?

Make blue bottle trees, of course!

My DH is making several of these,

for the next trade days.

Blue bottle tree history.....

used today as interesting garden ornaments

Colorful glass garden art

is on the upswing

as upscale garden shows

(including the Chelsea Flower Show in London)

will prove. 

Blue has long been associated with ghosts, spirits, and

"haints". 

There is even a blue paint

used around windows and doors of cottages

 to repel spirits

called

"haint blue".

"Haint" is from the root word "haunt"

which is most likely from the

 German-French-Middle English word

 "hanter"

which meant to inhabit.

Hollow glass bottles

appeared in Egypt and Mesopotamia

around 1600 B.C.

Soon after that

 tales began to spread

about spirits being caught in the glass bottles

and then morning light destroying them.

Bottle trees have a long tradition of

keeping the bad away

and bringing the good into

your home.

Savor the Day!

Yvonne