My Weathered Gray Chair 2012
July 10, 2012
"My Gray Weathered Chair" was first featured on my blog HERE. I love planting in the chicken wired seat, lined with either moss or coco liner.
This year the only plant in the chair seat is a hot pink superbells calibrachoa hybrid.
Along my with other calibrachoa and petunias, this plant has been plagued with first cutworm caterpillars and then aphids. Now, it is coming around and filling in.
The wooden garden angel was a thrift store find earlier this spring for $4.
I broke the heart off of her shoulder and removed the birdhouse and Spanish Moss she was holding and added an old spoon that reads "Bless the Blooms".
She has her work cut out for her this year. (I have never had a cutworm caterpillar attack! Just a stray caterpillar here and there.)
I hope this calibrachoa fills in even more in July and August, before the Minnesota September frosts!
This year the only plant in the chair seat is a hot pink superbells calibrachoa hybrid.
I hope this calibrachoa fills in even more in July and August, before the Minnesota September frosts!
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Love your sweet little chair. I heart the angel too. So chippy, so charming!!!!
ReplyDeleteAdorable little garden angel :)
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~Pernilla
Ooo Carlene, love that!! I just found a similar chair in my parents smokehouse yesterday and since it needs re-caning, I might just try this.
ReplyDeleteHi Carlene: I love this chair with the angel. Did you make the spoon yourself? I always wanted to learn how that is done. I see them everywhere. I purchase one and it was $10. I thought that was a bit pricey. Have a wonderful week. Blessings, Martha
ReplyDeleteLove the chair and the angel. And your flowers look good. Thanks for sharing at the All Star Block Party.
ReplyDeleteHolly
So pretty & I love your garden angel too!
ReplyDeleteCarlene,
ReplyDeleteI just adore all of your garden art! This chair is fantastic and then you go and make it even more special with the addition of this sweet angel!
Great job!
Hugs,
Debbie
Your garden angel is so cute. Like your changes in her and your Calibrachoa looks good in spite of the cut worms.
ReplyDeleteThat weathered chair is the perfect shade of gray to set off those pink blooms! I'd love if our fence was that same weathered gray, but unfortunately I'm stuck with bright cranberry. Ewwww.
ReplyDeleteI think the only thing the worms got were all the morning glories I planted. I probably won't have a single bloom!!!
I love this old weathered gray chair Carlene! And the addition of the angel is perfect! What a fun piece to have out in your yard.
ReplyDeleteLove the chair with the pretty blooms and what a great way to update that sweet angel with the spoon!Great idea! I have lots of "country" 80 things that need some updating like that.
ReplyDeleteWOW! this chair turned out lovely!!!! We'd love it if you'd share this at our link party - Home is Where the Heart is! http://www.homesteadsimple.com/home-is-where-the-heart-is-link-it-up-wednesdays-1/
ReplyDeleteGreat look and the flowers are filling in nicely. I love the angel and the spoon and of course the chair!
ReplyDeleteCarlene, This is just the cutest garden idea! The angel holding the garden tag spoon is just so sweet!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great garden project to share at my new linky party, TUTORIALS TIPS AND TIDBITS going on now! So creative! I hope you join in!
Bless the Blooms Indeed~ I hope your sweet angel is working overtime :) Visiting from StoneGable~
ReplyDeleteLove your stamped spoon! The flowers look beautiful, the angel must be working:@)
ReplyDeleteLove the chair, angel and the stamped spoon. My flowers like yours bit the dust already down here in Texas. They were sooo pretty, too.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great find your angel was. I love the idea of her holding a stamped spoon. I just started making those this week! Guess what my garden angel will be holding tomorrow!!!??? :) Visiting from T & T party.
ReplyDeleteLove that angel!
ReplyDeleteLove your chair! The flowers are gorgeous :)
ReplyDeleteYou made her look so much more purposeful and wonderful... less country and little more "junky" - in the best way. I love how she is keeping watch over your troubled flowers.
ReplyDeleteLiz
Your chair is so cute and the angel finishes it off! Flowers look beautiful, but I know how you feel I have the same problem this year for the first time!
ReplyDeleteNancy
Carlene,
ReplyDeleteThis looks just too cute... I LOVE IT!!!!! The whole thing with the chair the angel and the flowers... oh and I love the spoon!!! Just adorable.
Thanks so very much for sharing this at the ALL STARS BLOCK PARTY!!!
Carri
simplydonewright.blogspot.com
Hi Carlene
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Congratulations! Your chair is featured today on my blog. Thanks for linking it up with us at our All Star Block Party. You can see my post here:
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Shasta @ InTheOldRoad
How cute! Love that sweet spoon she holds. Thanks for linking up to Share the Love Wednesday!
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