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Heirloomgardens
My Garden Journal
My Garden
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 12:32 pm EST : |   |
I don't have anyone to shop with around here and it seems like all the really good stuff is online anyway, which for me really misses the boat as far as sharing the joy of shopping goes. So, I thought I'd share some links to things that I think are interesting and hope that you will chat and share some of yours. Let's go shopping!
 
I received a catalog from GardenersEdge.com today and got a kick out of these things (I don't have anything to do with this business, but I've linked only to the images to avoid getting blasted for soliciting. LOL.):
garden bicycle
I have an old bicycle in the barn (has a bent wheel now thanks to some trespassers), but maybe I could deck it out like this garden bicycle.
http://www.gardenersedge.com/help-desk/items/g/gb2008/gb2008.jpg
parlor garden hook
I suspect it would flip over in the kind of wind that I get, but this would add that old-fashioned look I've been trying to find.
http://www.gardenersedge.com/help-desk/items/1/15pgh/15pgh.jpg
garden obelisk
You'll have to use your imagination because they don't show the various ideas online, but in the paper catalog they have a little inset picture that shows the planter baskets in this obelisk filled with straw, pumpkins, gourds, and fall leaves. I love that idea.
http://www.gardenersedge.com/help-desk/items/v/vp937/vp937.jpg
Heirloomgardens
- Massachusetts,
Zone "5b"
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Flowerfreak
 Supporting Member
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 01:15 pm EST : | |
Oh, I can picture that! How cool would that be?!
It's been fun shopping with you DJ! I don't have time to get out much either & it is easier for me to just browse online also.
Flowerfreak
- Ky,
Zone "6a"
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Heirloomgardens
My Garden Journal
My Garden
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 01:39 pm EST : | |
When we were out last Friday looking for pies, donuts, and nurseries, my husband was convinced that my favorite nursery was at location X. I thought it was at Y, but he insisted he was right and I headed toward X just to humor him. It turned out to be wrong, of course, and after finally getting to location Y and finding the nursery closed because of the weather, I started heading home. Then I remembered that I wanted to go to a Christmas shop in an old barn back the way we had come, so I had to turn around. I spotted a convenient turnaround down the road. It turned out to be a winery, so we came away with a couple of bottles - Woodstock Valley Red and Autumn Raspberry.  Am I a good driver or what? HAHA!
Heirloomgardens
- Massachusetts,
Zone "5b"
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Flowerfreak
Supporting Member
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 01:52 pm EST : | |
That is funny! Ooh, Autumn Raspberry sounds good. You sound like a good driver to me (and a fun person to shop with.. Food & plants--now that is my kind of shopping! The calories I can imagine the two of us could pack on in one shopping day...Oh my!) hehe
Flowerfreak
- Ky,
Zone "6a"
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Heirloomgardens
My Garden Journal
My Garden
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 02:05 pm EST : | |
Hahaha, we'd have to take my truck just to be able to haul it all plus ourselves after a day like that together! Oh, my gosh... I just thought of a great GB get-together. Hold it somewhere near nurseries, garden furnishing centers, and good dining. We'd need a bus to carry everyone, plus a Mack truck just for all the stuff we bought. HAHAHA!
Heirloomgardens
- Massachusetts,
Zone "5b"
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Flowerfreak
Supporting Member
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 02:42 pm EST : | |
sounds like my MIL when she goes on one of her "shopping sprees" and either "lucky" DH or FIL usually gets to be her chauffeur for the day. They always seem to call me & tell me that there is no way they can get another thing in their truck, yet as soon as she hears them say that, she finds a way just to prove she can! lol
Sounds like a good GB trip to me. We need like a farmer's market in the middle of a bunch of pastry shops & ice cream stores!
Flowerfreak
- Ky,
Zone "6a"
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Heirloomgardens
My Garden Journal
My Garden
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 03:04 pm EST : | |
HA!
Oh, yes, mmmm, mmmm, mmmm! Perfect!
Heirloomgardens
- Massachusetts,
Zone "5b"
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Lovinlife
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 04:30 pm EST : | |
I actually have one of these, DJ. This year I planted red wave petunias, white annual phlox, and blue lobelia in it (yes, red, white, and blue). I really like it a lot. However, since you have the bicycle, I think it might be a fun project for you (right - like you need another project now, laugh).
Lovinlife
- Utah,
Zone "5"
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Heirloomgardens
My Garden Journal
My Garden
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 09:27 am EST : | |
| Lovinlife wrote on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 04:30 pm: I actually have one of these, DJ. This year I planted red wave petunias, white annual phlox, and blue lobelia in it (yes, red, white, and blue). I really like it a lot. However, since you have the bicycle, I think it might be a fun project for you (right - like you need another project now, laugh). |
Neat idea for your obelisk, Gloria. Great minds think alike - I love red, white, and blue. LOL! Did you post a photo somewhere? I could try that color combo with the bicycle. I seem to recall it being red and white to begin with. Besides the Kingsblood Tulips, Duke of Wellington Tulips, and Blue Grape Hyacinths (M. armeniacum) that I planted this fall, I actually bought a whole slew of seeds for red, white, and blue flowers to plant around my wishing well next year. How wonderfully tacky and gaudy it will be. HAHA!
Heirloomgardens
- Massachusetts,
Zone "5b"
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Starzgarden
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 09:45 am EST : | |
Very neat items,DJ! I would enjoy shopping with you. I have two friends who garden but neither one of them can handle lingering in the greenhouses and garden shops for hours on end like I do.
Starzgarden
- Michigan,
Zone "five"
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Flowerfreak
Supporting Member
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 10:07 am EST : | |
I only have 1 friend that gardens (but mostly for a living these days) so she stays busy 6 days a week. My only other hope is one of my sisters that I do yard work for. She is the only one that could spend hours in places like that (greenhouses & garden shops) with me! Aren't nurseries the best?! I'd much rather shop for plants than clothes any day!
Flowerfreak
- Ky,
Zone "6a"
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Heirloomgardens
My Garden Journal
My Garden
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 10:08 am EST : | |
Oh, now wouldn't that be fun?! You reminded me of a greenhouse, I think it was in PA, that my Mom and I used to go to. It was pretty big and designed more like a conservatory, with the plants actually planted in the ground, up small hills, along a man-made stream, and beside a giant waterfall cascading down rocks at the far end of the greenhouse. It had orchids and some very tropical, dinosaur-era type plants, and was very warm and humid. There was a little wrought iron bistro table with two chairs in a little clearing beside the stream and I always used to stand there and dream about living in a house like that. HAHA! I could spend all day in a good greenhouse, no problem.
Heirloomgardens
- Massachusetts,
Zone "5b"
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Flowerfreak
Supporting Member
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 10:45 am EST : | |
DJ, that sounds like a really neat greenhouse. Anytime I travel somewhere & pass a garden center, I always have to yell, "SLOW DOWN! There was a nursery back there" or "WAIT! I saw some flowers"!! After some eye-rolling & discussion that lasts for 5 minutes, then (usually DH) will ask, "Well do you want to go back?" Of course by that time I am disgusted and say, "No, just forget it. I don't have money to spend anyway"!
Flowerfreak
- Ky,
Zone "6a"
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Heirloomgardens
My Garden Journal
My Garden
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 11:22 am EST : | |
ROFL! I can hear myself saying those exact words, and I bet I know exactly what the expression on your face is and the tone of your voice, too. SO FUNNY!
Heirloomgardens
- Massachusetts,
Zone "5b"
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Flowerfreak
Supporting Member
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 12:27 pm EST : | |
yep, lol!
Flowerfreak
- Ky,
Zone "6a"
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Lovinlife
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 01:04 pm EST : | |
I'm so glad I don't have that problem, Lisa. My car just automatically turns into the driveway of all garden shops and nurseries!
Lovinlife
- Utah,
Zone "5"
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Flowerfreak
Supporting Member
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 01:26 pm EST : | |
lol...trust me, if I am driving, my truck does the same thing (and my truck is usually camoflauged in grasses & flowers when I leave)! It is much nicer when I am by myself & no one is asking if it is time to leave yet & ask me how long can one person look at just plants!
Flowerfreak
- Ky,
Zone "6a"
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Growit
My Favorite Photo
My Weather
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 01:46 pm EST : | |
DJ Please do the bike first. I think it would look brilliant!
Can I go virtually shopping with all of you? I only have one friend who can look at plants as long as me and she is only able to come with me once in a blue moon. Everyone else I know gets that "surely it must be time to go now". look in their eyes after about 5 minutes. I long for a nursery/garden centre buddy.
Growit
- Hampshire,
Zone "8/9"
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Flowerfreak
Supporting Member
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 01:47 pm EST : | |
There is a place within 15 or so mins. from my home and work. I found out about it from my gardening friend a couple of years ago. I have been wanting to check it out in person for some time now, but haven't. Until then, I just browse through their catalog. (A little pricey for me, but they have things that are otherwise hard to find around here). I don't know if any of you have one near where you live or have visited their web site before. They have 6 stores in 6 different states (including one in MA, DJ) You can check it out at http://www.wormsway.com
Flowerfreak
- Ky,
Zone "6a"
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Heirloomgardens
My Garden Journal
My Garden
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 02:20 pm EST : | |
Lead the way, Moira!
I wonder where I should put it. I should go to the barn and take a pic of the bike so we can all see what I have to work with. I think I could use some fresh air right about now, anyway.
Still sort of defeats the purpose if you have to go separate ways, but maybe they should make garden centers like those two-in-one restaurants, like the combo Sbarro and Roy Rogers restaurants... something for everyone. They could interweave the shoe, clothing, and jewelry displays, home decor, and chocolate and dessert cases, in among the plant displays. Except I know I'd still take twice as long to shop as whoever I dragged in with me. LOL.
Oooo, you just had to mention that detail, didn't you? It sounds familiar and I recognize the logo on their web site, but I'm going to have to browse it again to remember why I was ever there in the first place. Because, you know, I too am a goldfish. HAHAHA!
Heirloomgardens
- Massachusetts,
Zone "5b"
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