I showed you my way of hiding an ugly Propane Gas Tank with my Gas Woes posting a while back. The picket fence and trumpet vine do a great job of hiding the ugly from the tank during the growing season. But during the cold of winter in my Georgia Garden, the area becomes a bit bare to my eyes. With this winters dormancy, I decided it was time to perk the area up a bit with a new planter. 
Once the warm air started to fill the spring air, I went to work. Twenty-Two Castle Rocks later, a new planter was born! 
I filled the planter with Tulips and African Daisy for a spring show. I also planted a row of gladiola bulbs in various colors running down the middle of the planter. In time the tulips will be gone and the glads popping up from the warm soil.
I dug out all the black-eyed Susan from the half circle planters and relocated them behind the new planter, just in front of the picket fence. They were pretty diseased last year and I hope I got all the bad stuff to the trash bin for better plants this season. The half circles now have bulbs of Tall Flowering Phlox and Balloon Flower in them. In time other fun stuff will be added as well.
I had a little yellow assistant while creating the new planter. OJ kitty from next door is now tame to me and enjoys watching me play in the garden. He is a joy to be around as he makes me laugh with his playful kitten self while chasing leaves and tunneling under the pine straw as I spread it. OJ and I are becoming good buddies.
I am hoping my friendship with OJ will encourage him to keep the Rabbits, Squirrels and Voles at bay this year. Especially from my NEW PLANTER, In the Garden...
I had a little yellow assistant while creating the new planter. OJ kitty from next door is now tame to me and enjoys watching me play in the garden. He is a joy to be around as he makes me laugh with his playful kitten self while chasing leaves and tunneling under the pine straw as I spread it. OJ and I are becoming good buddies. I am hoping my friendship with OJ will encourage him to keep the Rabbits, Squirrels and Voles at bay this year. Especially from my NEW PLANTER, In the Garden...
The new flower bed looks great, and your gardening assistant is cute, too.
ReplyDeleteJan
Always Growing
WOW!!! That is beautiful. Great way to disguse a propane tank!!!!! Good thing you are a garden coach ;). I just bought my first African Daisy yesterday....2 of them actually. They are great. Love what you have done there!
ReplyDeleteI tell my customers to not underestimate the ability of a slightly underfed cat to control voles and moles.
ReplyDeleteOJ is one cute-lookin' kitty. I wouldn't necessarily count on him for pest control, though, if my cats are anything to go by. I often see them sitting on the deck next to squirrels and groundhogs looking all the world like they're having a tea party. Ah, well. Mine are older cats, though! :)
ReplyDeleteIt looks great Skeeter! If you add some roses you have a very European styled formal area. Some wooden obelisk trellises would look nice in the ends of the two curved beds.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful way to hid what could potentially be an eyesore. I love the circle garden and OJ Kitty too. Nice to have garden helpers that eat rodents.
ReplyDeleteHeather
Skeeter- I look forward to seeing everything once it pops up. Your garden is very nice, formal. I like the curved beds.
ReplyDeleteI love the balance and design of your curved beds. Sometimes I long for structure in my chaotic garden! :-)
ReplyDeleteOJ is cute! I assume he's Orange Juice? I once had a yellow tabby named Orville Redenbacher!
Cameron
Oh wow, I love the design of your bed around the tank. I think this may be the first case ever where something undesirable was actually shielded from view during any part of the year. Usually whatever one plants doesn't grow or ends up 2 feet short. lol The formality of the form really draws the eye away from the tank. Very well done!
ReplyDeleteI garden with cats too and they're a lot of fun.
Your new beds just look great and OJ sure does look happy and contented to be your supervisor.
ReplyDeleteIt looks REALLY good Skeeter! And the bonus is that you have more room to plant more flowers! Yahoo! And you know, unless I look for the gas tank, I never noticed it behind that fence. You have a great gardening day today! That's where I'll be too.
ReplyDeletelovely new bed to keep that gas at bay. hope your kitty friend, oj will help.
ReplyDeleteIt looks really nice. I like the flower colors you chose. It does a great job of covering up the the tank.
ReplyDeleteGood job, the plants will look wonderful as each comes into it's own. Everyone needs a little helper when in the garden.
ReplyDeleteI gasp at tulips everytime I see them, as we know from other posts they are so hard to keep coming back year after year. Anyway I love the purple and OJ is just a cutie!
ReplyDeleteI love seeing and hearing about OJ ! .. what a pretty area you have created there girl ! ..
ReplyDeleteI hide my gas meter with tall ornamental grass .. and now that I planted the clumping bamboo last year I'm hoping for some wow factor with that as well.
The rudbeckia go through cycles I find .. some years they are amazing .. other years they get some kind of blight that ruins them .. I'm sure yours will be better this year for you !
Well, I like it very much. That white picket fence looks so inviting too.
ReplyDeleteBrenda
Lookin good there Ms. Skeeter!
ReplyDeleteWhat if the cat decides to have rabbit for supper and shows it to you?
Hello everyone! I hope you all have been having a nice day today. Been busy for me but a fun busy and enjoying my family. I must get back to them just sneaking away to say hey to all.... TC, I am a country gal so can I handle a headless bunny if I must. Eck....
ReplyDeleteGreat job, Skeeter!
ReplyDeleteThe new bed looks great Skeeter! And congrats on gaining a new garden assistant in the garden. :)
ReplyDeleteI agree with everyone about the good job you did creating the new bed Skeeter. You can never have too many flowers and if they help hide something unsightly, all the better, right? Very cute assistant that OJ. :-)
ReplyDeleteSue, Thanks...
ReplyDeleteRaquel, thanks and now with OJ helping me, gardening is even more fun...
Kathleen, Thank you and yes, i do have a cute little assistant now. He is such a joy in the Garden...