Another Page of Garden Knickknackery
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Stove PartThis piece of iron hanging on the garage wall in the shade-plant corridor is a part of a woodstove. It's part of the flue, which would ordinarily never be seen, except for the handle on top, which sticks out of a metal chimney & can be turned to limit updraft. The shadow of an espaliered camellia is falling upon it. |
TrowelSnapped a pic of this trowel in November 2002, where it had been hanging all day on a trellis Granny Artemis made from alder branches. The trowel has a brass neck & stained wooden handle. I don't like tools with plastic parts, & believe the tools I'm using in the yard should have some of the aesthetic merits as the garden itself. |
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Broken TrowelThis trowel got bent the very first time I used it. It was advertised as especially well made "to last a lifetime," made of stainless steel & mounted in a wooden handle that resembled the handle of a quality knife. But it was actually a way crappier than average trowel. Well, that's what I get for picking tools on the basis of their physical beauty. It must've been 2001 that it bent on first use, & I right then & there reached up & hung it by its leather gimp from the Franchett's cotoneaster arbor. It's still hanging there. |
Plow BladeThe perfect location for this rusty plow blade has not yet been found. It has been moved here & there about the garden, & is at present leaning against a back fence. We got this & the other two pieces of iron shown on this page at a yardsale. I think all three items cost only about a dollar-fifty combined. The overhanging leaves are an Elf's Home Spirea. |
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Another Stove Part
Big ConeAt a yard sale I murmured to Granny Artemis, "If that big cone was a dime I'd take it home, toss it in the garden, & watch it rot over time." The seller overheard me & said, "You can have it, no charge!" So there it is, with May's Yellow Toadshades flowering nearby. |
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GARDEN KNICKKNACKERY