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)
7 comments:
Your book is very inspiring and so is your garden. I stayed home today with a goal of sewing. I ended up going through my garden shelving in the garage to pull out the tins for seeds. I peeked in "gardening supply spots" I hadn't looked at for a while. I love your tools and that "trug" I believe you called it with your supplies.
Your garden is truly a thing of joy, a place of peace, and shows years of slowly tweeking and improving and loving it!
This gardener is inspired by this wonderful post. I just ordered a copy of this book. '-) I recently found an English garden tool at the City Wide Garage Sale. '-)
I need to find me an English trug.
There may be a run for that book after that post! I love to see odd and old things in a garden. Layers of history are lovely everywhere, even outside.
Your English inspired garden is really lovely. I love the look of those long necked watering cans and the staddle stones. They make me think of mushrooms. What do you do with your terra cotta pots during the winter to keep them from cracking?
I put them in the potting shed. In the winter, it's really a storage shed!
It is truly amazing, interesting thing. ugly girls
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