Radogast's Non-420 Garden Creation Thread

[Radogast]

I love the way you and your wife have made your property a little art museum. It's so reminiscent of the way Dale and I arranged our own place, when we had a yard. We had little things tucked away to catch the eye and larger items scattered about. Yeah, our apartment is kinda like that too. We call our interior design style "Early Museum".

The interior of our house could best be described as inspired by a Gypsy Caravan.

From where I sit now, the best example I can see it an old TV/Room divider made out of pressboard and wood grain vinyl we picked up beside the road. My wife turned it into a desk in the last two weeks.


The Art Room Desk

The outward facing surfaces have fabrics, silk threads, stick on rhinestones, several colors of paint, etc.

The inner surfaces are many layers of applique of photocopies of vintage postcards, art cut out of books, paper scraps, handmade borders, etc..

always more etc...

On the side you see one of two panels, painted up in multiple colors, that were in a box we bought at auction (for $5-$10) about a month ago. The auction box also contained Haitian Voodoo ceremonial paintings (one of which is inpiring the design of our master bathroom) and a pre-civil war family bible (not yet processed.)

My wife painted the borders of the panels, which then inspired the desk design.

 

[SweetSue]

Ohhhh, I like your wife. Every home should have a wild artist, don't you think? Are the dolls hers? My daughter repaints Monster High Dolls and designs wild costuming. Zombie cheerleaders and swamp voodoo priestesses. LOL! Pretty damned creative, and it keeps her mind engaged in something that makes her forget she's haunted by anxiety. Wait until I show her this desk. How exquisite.

 

[Radogast]

The 11-inch fashion dolls are store bought as presented.

She doesn't think of herself a an artist, because she was married to an artist who took over and claimed credit for every project she started.

Now, she can breathe her own creativity as inspired.

 

[SweetSue]

Oh God Rad, I love you.

 

[SweetSue]

Our daughter says that type of shit happens all the time. She wanted your wife to know she's wrong. She most assuredly is an artist. Awesome desk. She got caught up with the corpse bride. She's trying to find two Monster High girls to switch parts on and do a corpse bride redo.

Sweet. I like your wife's style. The way she just let the creativity go..... Yeah.,


Oooo, I forgot to post my joyful tulip pictures on my Spot.

 

[Radogast]

Tori Trellis

A garden project started Wednesday, completed Saturday. Mostly it was just waiting for paint to dry.


An old headboard found at auction ($5-$1) Painted black on top to emphasize the shape of a Tori Gate.

Painting mostly red (because Tori gates are red), glitterspray outside, and varnishing inside the art room.

Installed outdoors as a Tori trellis

The view from our deck (Mimosa the Marmot grounghog) is left of the white marble.

zoomed- with groundhog in lower left corner

I dug a trench and filled it with my seedling starter mix, then planted soaked Moonflower seeds, soaked Morning Glory seeds, and Bittersweet Nightshade(Solanum dulcamara), a perennial vine with flower sprays and bright red berries.

This will screen the neighbor's boat when sitting on the bench, and add a little drama if we ever run a waterfall down the rock face.

We like it!

 

[Radogast]

The river where our brook ends

Maple leaves sprouting

My only glimpse of tonight's Flower Moon. We did however watch a bat circle overhead for several minutes.

 

[SweetSue]

Love it! The splash of red in the landscape is a brilliant move. A hearty "YES!" to the idea of a waterfall. Liquid meditation and music to the ears. Moon flowers can grow in excess of 60 feet. They'll try to take over. Just a warning.

Next year I need to make the balcony overflow with life. It's gotten so sad out there. I should make use of all that high Brix soil I'll have and grow some veggies this year. So not gonna happen this year.

It's nice to visit Rad. Thanks for having me by.

 

[Radogast]

Love it! The splash of red in the landscape is a brilliant move. A hearty "YES!" to the idea of a waterfall. Liquid meditation and music to the ears. Moon flowers can grow in excess of 60 feet. They'll try to take over. Just a warning.

Next year I need to make the balcony overflow with life. It's gotten so sad out there. I should make use of all that high Brix soil I'll have and grow some veggies this year. So not gonna happen this year.

It's nice to visit Rad. Thanks for having me by.

You know you are most welcome.

Your days are so busy and mine so normally quiet. I havn't read a book while I have been gardening pretty much flat out for the last 5 days. Work tomorrow will be a physical rest AND a mental culture shock.

 

[SweetSue]

I come home to silence. Dale was raised by a woman who lived with the constant blare of the tv for background noise and pseudo companionship. Sad to say, after years of being essentially immobilized by his vascular disease, Dale fell into the same pattern. I've been relishing the silence. I'm a block and a half from a major train line and half a block off a major avenue, so the "quiet" is relative, but I find the absence of TV a kind of freedom. At some point I'll rediscover reading again. There're some gardening books I wanted to get. "Teaming With Microbes" looks like a good one this month.

 

[Radogast]

Hey there Rad - REPS on the outdoor gardens there. You have my wife rubbing my shoulders and ooooing and awinnng over the critters on your porch there! Nice... We live a few hundy miles south of you and we were in the woods again today by the river and the peepers and other frogs are singing like there's no tomorrow - it's as good as getting high for me. Quadraphonic nature in spades. The sounds are amazing. Are you enjoying the sounds of frogs doing their mating calls today??

We get the frogs singing every full moon until the late summer. They will sing a few days prior to full moon then on the full moon evening its CRAZY loud... they are starting already where we live. I get soooo freaking excited when I hear them for the first full moon, it's mother nature singing to us that its time to plant and get outside and enjoy the beauties of the woods. I feel soooo excited about life and living and seeing and hearing mother nature getting it done just makes my day.

Thanks for sharing your little world with the rest of us Rad. We here love the woods and we live in an urban setting but we live very close to a HUGE park that has many areas of old growth Forrest. We are in the middle of harvesting Stinging Nettles right now too. Nettles are GREAT for canna tea. I'm getting windy ... I'm just so happy that winter is now a pleasant memory and all that snow will bring an even larger more abundant healthy garden this summer.

Cheers and a +1 on your outdoor endeavors.

BB

We heard the tree frogs tonight, but not very loud. Then again, the full moon was behind clouds last night and tonight.

Early this morning I heard two bullfrogs conversing in the pond.

 

[bobrown14]

Full moon is tonight too and we just missed a total eclipse @ 8am - too light out to see but it happened - the frogs should be loudest tonight. You're farther north than us so about 2 weeks behind us looking at your trees & ground cover. Next full moon your frogs will be REAL loud!

Enjoy!

 

[Radogast]

A little color patch in the back garden.

 

[SweetSue]

Sweet. Was that a random planting, or were those reds strategically placed to carry the eye through the scene? Brilliant placement or happy circumstance, it worked.

 

[Radogast]

Speaking of animals....

An Unkindness of Ravens(6 of them-3 pictured) played overhead for about 20 minutes.

We also had 3 deer come out while we were sitting on the porch

 

[SweetSue]

Ahhh. Life in the quiet. I can imagine.

The hospital Dale spends so much time in is on the flight path of a huge community of ravens. Right before sunset they set off from....somewhere (I've never looked into it, sad to say) and fly to their night roost. Hundreds of them. It takes them over 30 minutes to finally pass and there are massive groups of them at a time. An awe-inspiring sight.

An Unkindness of Ravens? I have never read Ruth Rendell. My mother may smack me from her grave for admitting that. Hard to believe, with my love of well-crafted British murder mysteries. It goes to show how crazy life can get. I shall correct that.

 

[Dennise]

I sat here this morning watching 6 doe graze across the pasture while 3 female turkey were eating in the field on the other side.... The sky was such a beautiful clear blue with big white fluffy clouds with just a touch of a breeze.... I think it was one of the most beautiful days I have ever been blessed with.... and it was enhanced by a great Dean Koontz mystery.....

 

[Radogast]

I spent the day with Diane Gabaldon :Written in My Own Heart's Blood. Her new addition to the Outlander Series (after a long break)

 

[MassMedMan]

Morning Rad, hope your day is great, enjoy the warming weather! get out there and plant something

 

[SweetSue]

I spent the day with Diane Gabaldon :Written in My Own Heart's Blood. Her new addition to the Outlander Series (after a long break)

I take it the book lives up to the excitement she generated when she finally published? Sometimes it's difficult to keep the story vibrant through so many "episodes". I should look into that series. Historical fiction is my all-time favorite style of writing. How did I get so removed from reading? I should start taking time during the day again for the simple pleasure of reading.