Hello Friends!
I did something a little different this year when it came to decorating my back deck with plants and flowers.
This year I used ALL JUNK PLANTS!!{If you listen to them at Lowes they have a bit more class and selectively call it the
Distress Cart.}
Oh do I LUVVVV the "distress cart!"
How could I not? It's totally in my nature to give things a second chance. When I see many of these plants just basically needing a good dead heading , a little cut back and healthy dose of fertilizer I grab one of the BIG flat carts and load up!
I wish I would have thought to take some before photos of all these. Little shrunken messes they all were, just dying for a drink all withered and sad..........and cheap.
Have I ever mentioned I *LUV* cheap?
It's funny who you meet back there too ...at the junk cart.
Whoever you do meet you feel like you've know um all your life.
You start chatting about how cheap you both are and how you love seeing the plants come back to life and what you found on it the last time you were there (yesterday) and how sometimes it's fun to by a "mystery" plant and see what happens and what's the best fertilizer to use and how you really don't NEED any more plants or flowers and so on.....
These were my "mystery"plant. I knew they were petunias but not the color!
I was tickled pink!
Garlic chives. Twenty five cents.
Sweet potato vine is one of my all time favorites. You can't beat the color and the impact it has.
Plus it gives you tiny potatoes!
The tall chippy metal piece is actually the top of an old post lantern that I turned into a candle holder.
My little concrete garden angel was bargain too. She was only 2.00 because she had a broken foot. We made a deal. I asked her if I would find her foot and glue it back on, would she grace my garden and nurture all my junk plants. We shook on it. She's doing a fantastic job by the way.
So tell me.....how many of you go diggin in the junk cart?
Ain't it fun? If you've never done it....you are missing out!
The only problem is , once you start , you can't stop and you wind up spending perhaps more money than you want to. I look at it this was....I am saving a life.....a little tiny plants life. I am giving it a chance to bloom and grow and be all it can be. To one day leave the nest and go to college , then get married and have a family of it's own. LOL!
Let me know what you find when you go.
Don't say I didn't warn ya!! *wink*
