GardeningInLewisburg: September 2010

The Garden Gate

This is a drawing done by a local artist Jim Knoke's who actually built this garden gate out of iron leading to our front door.

The artist sketches are as beautiful as the gate he built.

I asked him if he could create the Kiwi leaves coming down the gate out of old rusty steel.

He hadn't done this type of project before,

but cherished the challenge.

I sent him pictures of actual Kiwi leaves and he made patterns of them to place on steel.

He made sure the edges of the leaves would be safe

with no cutting edges.

A one of a kind masterpiece of art.

It's a beautiful gate no matter what the season is.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Perfect yard working weather

Took the window boxes down

Put some nasturium seeds in the blank areas of this nasturtium bed

Dumped 4 wheel barrows of debris in a pile

Picked some roses and put it in a vase

found some fall table toppers in the garage and put them on some tables

Pruned the roses

Swept the sidewalk

Moved the window boxes and put on top of an empty raised bed and now they are being watered.

I've been neglectful of these window boxes and some containers.

They need to be brought back to life.

I will try to over winter the geraniums by putting a cover over this raised bed when it gets too cold. Hopefully this will work and I won't have to buy geraniums.