Friday, March 11, 2011

Blue Bottle Garden in summer.........


In answer to my bottle garden-I started out a few years ago with just the blue-but friends and family have given me some of their very old bottles or one from a celebration or other and I have one in there of my absolute favorite color........






When I asked my maintenance man-hubby-for something to hang my new birdhouse I made in pottery class on-he dug into his stash of never-throw-anything-away-from-work-or-anywhere pile and this is what he came up with.......


A picture I took last summer in Belfast-I thought these homemade trellis would be great for morning glories or scarlet runners-my and hummingbirds favorite beans! I'm going to start making a couple early this year!



Have to have flamingos in my gardens here and there..................!  the wells in some of the bottoms of the bottles make great little watering cups for the birds-the sun shines on these and it's beautiful.

Can you see my birthday present from my maintenance man last year-I've wanted one for a long time and he has a friend up north whose town is taking them out~~~and~~~was I surprised!!  I love it!!

3 comments:

Lili said...

That is a clever way to provide water for the birds! Just seeing your summer pictures makes me get excited for some warmer weather to hit. Belfast always has such creative ideas, I just love to visit there. I think I need to make a twig trellis too! ~Lili

Rae said...

Ooooh! I LOVE the bottle garden! I just may need to put some up. My place could definitely use a bit of color. What a cool idea!

Diann said...

Your blue garden is so fun!