Birdbaths

While on the Garden Walk last Sunday, there were a few people that had little birdbaths constructed from clay pots. The idea was appealing, so I gathered some clay pots and some spray paint and tried my hand at it. I like to have examples of art around the gardens, and this seemed like good opportunity to have some of my own personal art work strewn in among the good stuff. It was very easy to put the birdbath together, using industrial strength glue, spray paint, a stencil here and there, a sponge, and a little wooden bird. I came up with two ideas. The first one is all white with green ferns painted on the sides. I also glued some blue-green stones along the rim of the basin. So far, so good. The second one is dark blue (I thought I'd use up the blue paint I got to make Henry's bench) with sponge painted white clouds on the sides. I glued a little cardinal in the basin for added frou-frou. They are definitely very primitive attempts at art, but I made them and they have a place in my garden as long as I can stand to look at them. I placed the white and green birdbath over by the ferns in the backyard corner garden, and the blue birdbath currently resides in the teeny Monet garden at the end of the Henry Path alongside the garage. I'm sure I'll move them several times before they find a permanent site.


I also painted the pink bench I found on my morning walk last week. It's all dark blue with a leaf stencil on two corners of the seat. I put it under the evergreen tree out back and placed a potted fern on it, and a potted coleus arrangement in front of it. It's tilted slightly forward, so I may work on it a little to straighten it out (depending on how much it ends up offending my eye).