Decorations from and for the Garden

Do you remember my little wheelbarrow Mr. Fix-it built for the garden way back when? Well, it is still in the garden and still giving me lots of pleasure. During the summer the wheelbarrow held a bunch of Boston ferns. Now that they are packed away for the winter I decided I could do a little something different with the wheelbarrow in the form of outside garden decorations.

While cleaning the garden I found many usable plants that either had a great texture, great color, or both, that would work well together in this wheelbarrow. The materials I used here are: helianthus 'Maximillian' (the bunch of gray stalks on the left), PeeGee hydrangea blooms, Nandina berries, and a couple of gourds. All of these materials will last well in the garden and in the elements, so why not join them together in a bouquet for the wheelbarrow or wagon or basket or anything thing you have in the garden?

Some other garden materials you can use for decorations include: pine cones and pine or spruce boughs, camellia leaves and branches, corn stalks, ornamental grass blooms, coneflower and brown eyed Susan spent blooms, stones, seashells, honeysuckle or crabapple berries, sedum heads, silverberry branches, evergreen branches, pawlonia seed heads, and sunflower heads. This list is not all inclusive. Let your imagination guide you when designing bouquets outside.....

in the garden....