Antiques From The Garden

I have always been in love with English gardens

And the "things" in English gardens!

On our trip over Labor Day to Minnesota

in an antique shop we found

This delightful book

Which, when we got back to Daughter Sarah's house,

we found and ordered it from Amazon --

at a $20.00 savings!

It was waiting for us when we arrived back at Linerhof!

Beautiful pictures of English garden things

things I covet!

Or once coveted --

The trug (the English garden basket)

Is always by the garden door

 So I can grab on my way to the garden

It holds my gloves, the herb scissors and the Friskars

And pages of

sundials

concrete ones

Like the one in the garden at Linderhof

And what garden is incomplete, unless it has

A birdbath

Just one of the ones at Linderhof

we even have a heater so that birds can have winter water

And even though there are hoses . . . 

A watering can is important in the garden

 I prefer the English Haws -- with a copper rose

There are pages and pages of

wonderful pots

These two are on the front pillars

Husband Jim wants to paint them so that they are "pretty"

I like them in their "chippy" state!

These are called

Handlights

A miniature greenhouse

And on the right you'll find the one in Linderhof's garden

Dwarfed now by the rosemary

And handlights go hand in hand with

Bell Jars

To help those garden seedlings to grow.

They've since made the transition from garden to house

and are called "cloches"

I still prefer "bell jars"

Then there are these

forcing pots

used mainly for rhubarb

A line of them in the herb garden

And they do help rhubarb grow!

Ours are lined up in the potting shed

And most are old --

preferring to find something old at an estate or garage sale

rather than going to the hardware store

and "just buying"

garden tools

In my opinion hanging as much for sculpture as for use

Not an estate or garage sale find

but rather my mother's

I love the handle.

And in every English garden

there is terra cotta

Like these English strawberry pots

which, alas, at Linderhof they don't hold strawberries

for I'm afraid that our winter may cause their demise.

But they are in the strawberry area of the garden!

And my small collection of hand thrown English greenhouse pots.

Which I do use!

The wee ones were brought home from England --

the others I've found here.

And a box of pots on the potting shed floor

As much "sculpture" as a usable item.

At Chelsea, I fell in love with

These troughs.   Alas, not brought home because of both the weight and the price.

I'm not sure which was higher.

And besides, it wouldn't fit in my luggage!

Still I yearn for one.

But what I yearn for most is . . . 

A staddle stone

used to elevate corn cribs so that the rodents wouldn't get in the corn.

They're everywhere!

Even in the garden at Blue Row!

I know where one is

One that isn't $$$

I think, perhaps, I need to make a road trip.

Not antiques but an intergral part of Linderhof's garden

My collection of straw garden hats

For one never gardens without a hat!

The top one is the oldest and probably my favorite!

(It's even been pressed into service as a Kentucky Derby Hat for a Derby Day party)