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#78494 Jun 28th, 2007 at 07:32 PM
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When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. Mary Ann LaPensee
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Bumping up.................


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Thanks for starting a new one, Kenny!
And thanks for continuing here, Wrennie!

(I feel like I've been rhyming all day - Penny, Wrennie, Kenny!!!)

Yep, Wrennie - that small one looks just like mine - aren't they cute?

I have a really LARGE one too, but can't find a pic of him - will have to do that tomorrow.


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Ok - here's Mr. BIG Toad!
A friend gave him to me a few years ago for my "toad" garden - he's huge!
And I just noticed the heart shaped wart under his left eye (on right side of picture) - cute!!!

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Looks like it was from the same mold as yours, Wrennie - does yours have the heart too?


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I am a big fan of toad and frog art in the garden. He's fantastic!

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I had to go back to whimsey 1 and look. I never noticed one. Cant tell 100% in the pic. I'll look when I go home.
Remind me to show you the catalog of GSI toads next time you're up.


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Isn't that wort cute! Who said worts were bad???

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She's blooming today! flwr

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An iron butterfly that I've had for years but never found quite the right thing to put in it. These are glass balls that I get at Christmas Tree Shops - they are in jute hangers - 3 sizes in each - for $3.99. A steal compared to what glass balls cost at beach areas!!! thumbup

(It's hard to see what is the real frame verses the shadows - tough picture to take!)
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Pretty! I love the colors of the glass.


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The cat hanger is awesom in bloom!! Verrry Nice!!!!!


I like the butterfly and balls too!! will You be putting the Butterfly near the Pond??


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Very nice. I broke my gazing ball today, I picked it up to wash it and it slipped and fell. I've got to learn to leave things alone.


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i did look and my big toad does not have a heart wart.


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wow lynne! i love your butterfly


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heres my thing by the pond, [it realy gose in a fishtank but i like it by the pond grin i wanna find more to put around it
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and the silver griffin, below him is a silver dragon curled around a egg
sorry if ya cant see em real good my camara is on the fritz
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i have another small silver dragon to put in there, and 3 blue dragons at the bottom. grin

touchedi resized the pics but still real small touched
editin again cause the pic are bigger than before touched
awwwman! you cant see it in the pic but the fishtank drawbridge thing reflects in the pond, its realy pretty to see,
k im done editing blush

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This is all I have, it's my sprinkler attachment for watering the garden.
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Glad I took a picture of it. I dropped it this morning on the patio and broke the front feet off, so I have no more whimsey in my yard. egad

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Oh no!! poor whimseyfrog! Can you glue it back together??


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iheart~ just bury it a little in soil & around some foliage and it will look like good!!!!!, thumbup


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I think I can glue it together. I have a tube of liquid nails, it should work.

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thumbuphope the liquid nails works, that frogs too cute!, if not, id do like diane says thumbup


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Very cute castle and dragon, Christy!
Great frog, iheart (what IS your name please?), I hope you are able to fix it!


I thought I'd share some garden whimsey in my parents' gardens.
Both my parents were golf NUTS! They lived and breathed GOLF in everything they did, until recently when they got too old, and my mom has Parkinson's now. She is 80 and my dad is 84.

My dad has collected golfballs FOREVER, and has made MANY things with them - a coffeetable, lampshades, clocks, etc - I will get pictures of those next time I'm there. Last year he decided to make some birdhouses! touched why rolz As you can tell... golf is NOT my thing! But I do give him credit for being VERY creative! I just wish he'd stop trying to give me one for my gardens! lol kissie

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This one is hanging from a tree by the front door:
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And this birdfeeder is on a pole by the garage:
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How very creative!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Those are cool! Golf isnt my thing either. but cool ideas!


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And here is a hanging planter that I bought for them last year -
found it at IKEA and thought it looked just like a 1/2 golfball!

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I love those houses! It would be kind of neat to try spraypainting one of them a cool coral blue or fuschia, very eclectic!

I'd love to order one, as my mom is a golf nut too! She tapes golf on TV so she doesn't miss the PGA when she is out gardening. Talk about: touched

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PS: My name is Sarah.

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Hi Sarah! wavy

You have NOOOOOOOOOOOO idea how HEAVY those birdhouses are!!! shock
I thought the poor tree would come down when he hung it there!!! rolz

He has given his clocks to local banks, and can't find enough people to give them away to - it gives him something to do at this point in his life, you know?

I think it would look cool being painted another color - great idea!
But I'm sure my dad wouldn't care for that - he prides himself on showing the logos on the balls! :list:


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those are neat lynne! your dads creative thumbup
maybe the golf corse or the people who golf there would like em?
or he could sell em on e-bay?


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Angelblossom, I will have to take your advice and half bury my whimsey and retire it from sprinkler duty. The feet were broken in too many pieces (so sad).

Oh well, I have my eye on an interesting piece of art I found on craigslist.com, what do you think of it? I am still more partial to frogs though.

http://madison.craigslist.org/art/363110531.html

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Oh, I just love the whimsey's here. The golf ball projects are very creative.

(No - I'm not into golf - just thinking about it makes me hot)

The frogs remind me of seeing African frogs on the nature channel the other night - they were as big as dinner plates.


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lolthanks penny! that log is part hollow at the top, i was thinking of planting somthing in it to give him hair lol


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Very cute, great idea Christy.


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iheartflowers, what a unique item to add to your garden, I like it.


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Sibyl, I'm thinking hosta hair, variegated of course! It will give him that mad scientist look.
hee hee.

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or zebra grass hair


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blush i still havent gotten any hair for him! lol i will before summers up thumbup forgot i took these! i love those glass ball paperweights with flowers in them to put around the pond, i get them from the dallor store grin
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Can you see the pink flamingo and turtle on it's back with the silver ball on its tummy. I love garden whimsey.



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oooooooo! i love that turtle!!!!


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Christy what an awesome idea using the paperweights as pond whimsey!! They look like Colorful Bubbles! Reallllllly cool!!!( Hmmmm Giving me some ideas!!!)


Sheri I love love love the turtle and the Lamb( sheep) planter .
What is in the corner by the Chimney it looks Square?


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this thread is soooo cool, now that i have DSL, i can look at the pics the same day i click on them! bop

neat paper weights, i never thought of them by the pond!


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