Something New In The Garden

Ages ago 

I acquired Bunny Williams

An Affair With a House

I love Bunny's style both in house and garden

But I was extremely struck by something in her garden

off the conservatory

The edging in the garden

A twisted rope edging

I found out that it was English

And Victorian

And extremely rare in the states

But Bunny, after all, had access to buying trips to England

And a container to bring them back in!

Something that I didn't have access to!

That was years and years ago

And I did see some at a shop in the city

. . . but they had a price tag bigger than my purse.

And I didn't forget about them,

but knew that they would never grace the garden at Linderhof!

And then last Saturday,

at a charity garden sale

(in my little town)

There was a pile of them!

Marked $1 each!

A steal of a deal!

(The pile was 10 but 10 was 10 more than I had!)

Made of terra cotta,

they belong in a garden

They go well with the Fort Scott brick

Some 

 Ah, . . . . where to put them in the garden

My first thought was to replace the brick around the armillary

(which is my thyme bed)

And I tried, hoping that 10 would do three sides and the

back side would just be . . . well, different!

But they wouldn't -- two sides and only two sides would seem

strange!

I then tried at the end of the iron fence

And that looked strange

And then I tried them on the sides of the brick path

past the thyme garden

five on the left side

And five on the right

Doogie approves

(the terra cotta pot by him is an English strawberry jar)

I think they look smashing!

And I like how they lead to the seating area underneath the pergola.

It pays to never give up

If you yearn for something

someday, some way it will come along!