It's Sunday and I'm joining Chari at Happy To Design for Favorites Sunday.
There are flowers at Linderhof as well -- pansies, the last of the tulips, and primroses. However, instead of flowers, I want to share my fairy tale potting shed.
It's small -- six feet at it's widest points but it does have eight sides and a pointy roof also with eight sides and the sun is shining on that bright sheet metal roof causing a glare. We're hoping to take that roof and make it looked like aged copper.It started out life as a deer blind and I got it for a bargain. But alas, it had no door (for it was to be entered from the trap door in the bottom) but one was made for me and as a bit of whimsy, I used an old watering pot rose as a door handle.
I had a shelf built across the back last week and so, organization of the potting shed took place. All of the pots were placed under the shelf.
And on top -- my jar of bone meal, my homemade flower carrier which comes in handy when you pick flowers in the garden -- fill the green cans with water and then put the flowers in them so they stay fresh, a pot of seeds waiting to be planted, my two newest forcing vases.
The other side has bird houses which will be placed in the garden soon. As well as a little pot of plant markers for the herb garden. The glass jar is a wasp catcher.
It may be small but it does hold a lot and everything has it's hook so that garden tools can be organized. A copper bucket near the door holds sand and oil and into this I stick my hand tools. I can open the door and grab what I need and it's easy to return to it's proper place when I'm ready.
Although I've not had the potting shed very long, I really can't imagine the garden without one.
6 comments:
Good to bring in those herb markers as I left mine out all winter and I can hardly read them! Looking very organized here! Organized is a good thing!
You put me to shame with your well-organized potting shed!
That is a very well organized shed. We really need to get ourselves a garden shed. We put all our garden tools, pots, canning equipment, etc in the crawl space each winter. Not very convenient.
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I love your little potting shed! Everything in it's place. It's so neat and tidy. I have a potting bench in a small area which I use alot. Still, a shed would be wonderful! Plan on building a little out building next year. Think It will have to be a playhouse. I promised the grandies. Had one at our other home and they miss it. Like you, I stored garden items in it during the winter.
Just came by via Chari's to say hi.
That was a great repurposing of a deer blind. I had a potting shed at my last three homes but not here in the desert. I posted about one of them recently.
I hop you are enjoying your long weekend.
xoxo Bunny Jean
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ps. I have a party on Wednesdays that you are welcome to join ;)
Hi Martha...
My friend, you have such a nice potting shed! I would love to have one...maybe some day! Thanks so much for joining in with the Sunday Favorites party this week...a pleasure having you!
Hope you're having a wonderful Labor Day holiday!
Chari @Happy To Design
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