Wow great stuff! The bottle tree looks great there! I love the fence with the tools on it too! Of course the headboard is adorable! I love roses too! That is a cute one!
I understand how busy you are at the end of the School Year!!! Isn't it great to be off though?(-: Thats a huge YES! I am enjoying my Summer too!!!!

An important job you have. And have earned a breather I'm sure. Enjoyed all your pix. It's nice that you and Carol have this little tradition with Olivia every year. It makes it more special for her I'm sure. You're on your way to a bunch mass of roses tho. LOL.

Kat

Oh, Kirk...I love your yard! I want to come for a visit!! It has such a natural beauty! I don't think bottle trees grow naturally, but you know what I mean! chuckle

Olivia's miniature rose bush is beautiful! Jim gets one for me every spring too. I love them! The glass gems are a nice touch, Olivia. Very pretty! I should do that!

Great gate, Kirk!

~Sandy~

Welcome back to the land of the junkers Kirk!! We've sure missed you too! Even though you've been busy in school, I see you've still found a little time to go junking...and what great finds!! I LOVE the gate with tools! John is drooling here....and your headboard looks just wonderful in your woodland garden! Olivia's rose is awesome...great use of the glass pebbles too!

All so beautiful and I love the tree trunks of various sizes.After hurricanes we always have so much wood to deal with.
But I REALLY have to ask,,,,,,,
what did your In-Laws say when you told them you bought rusty ole junk with the money they gave you ???LOL

Love the tool fence.
kathy

Love the gate. I'll have to check out Target to see if they have any of those blue bottles here.

I'm jealeous of all your huge rocks. Looks like more giant ones of the back left of the picture.

Rose is very pretty.

Ramona

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debby

It's all wonderful! The bottle tree stand is super.

I had to show my DH the log ends as stepping stones - it's an idea we may use!

Beautiful setting - TFS - it's all so inspirational.

I don't post much but read often.
Kirk, you are adorable. I enjoy reading the posts about your gardens, garden junk and your family.
You are a sweetheart. :)
~JoAnn

Thank you all SO MUCH for the nice compliments. We love our woodland setting. I have to admit that I was dumbfounded when I saw all of the rocks taken out of the land when the builders poured our foundation. Once I placed them for gardens and along our road and driveway, they were a blessing in disguise. (We still hauled off truckloads of rocks and boulders!)

Goldenpond, my in-laws love my junk addiction. They continue to down-size and love sending things my way if I want them! I just received the coolest, old, red, metal, watering can from them! TREASURES! :o)

Luckygal, those log ends have a "junking story". There was a log sawing competition at a little town near us for Pioneer Days. These were from the competitions and thrown in a burn pile! Carol and I went back the next day and loaded my pick-up with them! They are pretty long, buried in the ground. I scuffed up the tops with a wire brush to prevent slipping on them. I've had them for 7 years, and they're still holding up. I had some thin ones but they cracked quickly. Go for the long ones! :o)

Your compliments REALLY made my day!!! YOU'RE ALL THE BEST! Thank you! Bear Hugs! Kirk

OH Kirk! I absolutely love the rusty tool gate. It is awsome. I haven't been able to find any old rusty garden tools yet...and I'm not ready to part with any of mine yet. I love the old garden tools. I think they say so much to a gardener.

I also love the headboard. Those are one of my favorite garden jun things. The rose is beautiful. I love the idea of your tradition of buying one with Olivia each year. That is so sweet.

I don't think I will ever find enough blue bottles for a tree. Yours looks perfect there.

~Micki~

Loved the pics!! Olivia's rose is so nice & gems are a great idea. The fence with tools is wonderful, they saved you a lot of work by attaching them!! The white bench & headboard look great there & can't even tell there is a path except when you look into the distance. Thanks for the pics! Jan

Glad you are no longer missing in action, and the school kids let you go for the summer. LOL. You are well on the way it looks like...GJ Heaven there!
I never see neat stuff like rusty old gates or tools except photos on here, so I have to enjoy these things thru you.

You have such a wonderful place, I want to sit on your porch and drink some wine with Carol. Then go shopping with you and OliviaRose. LOL

hugs, Karen

hugs, Karen

SHEESH!!! I can't believe how wonderful your yard is!!! From your very first post, oh so long ago, till these pics!!! WOW!! Love it all!!! Especially the bench! and the GATE!!!! Now I got 2 more projects to go on the never ending list!!!lol! Wonderful!

Love the gate, now got to find me one! Got the tools already, so guess I'm half way there. Thanks for sharing.

Betty

I love all your garden additions, Kirk. The gate with gardening tools is great and I love how the bottle tree looks "planted." Good find for the 4 pack of blue bottles! I drink a lot of white zinfandel but mine comes in green bottles (pretty but not quite as special as the blue.)

My dad sends me one of these mini rose bushes each year at Valentines day and I, too, plant them in a special little garden. Most of them live for several years but the winters eventually do kill them. Still I usually have at least 2 or 3 blooming each summer.

Thanks for posting the photos. They were inspiring!

Hey Betty, I have the gate and gotta look for just the right tools now!!!lol!

Your pics are great!! I would love to stroll through your garden some cool morning! I think your BD money was well spent!

Beautiful gardens. If I had a place like that, I mighta considered that bottle tree, too! For the price, I thought wow that's cool. But then realized I had no where to put it without it looking outta place. Where you have it it's perfect!

What a great antique tool collection. If those tools could talk, they would tell us about hundreds of hours of dirt-work. Maybe they were there when the owners wore their backs out. lol. What a great way to display and honor what they represent. I would add a garden sign to the collection. "SWEAT HAPPENS". Or a quote from a gardening poet. "Sweat Doth Happeneth". There thats better.

The blue bottle tree is so great and I'll bet looks wonderful as the continuation of the blue garden balls in the other tree.

Your garden bench looks so inviting. The 'hopping steps' (log slices) make a very fun path to get to the seating area. Dont forget to paint loads of wood sealer on them every season. (I had some but mine were cut too thin and rotted down quickly) The headboard has a forboding look that says, it dares any of the woods to encroch any further. "May not grow beyound this fence". lol. It all works well and you needed that pop of white to prevent the shadows of the woods from swallowing up the designs of the bench and headboard.

Thank you and Carol for providing a rose garden for your princess!!!!! Roses are gifts of love. I did not know that mini roses could live through the winter and come back! Let me know their proper name (it's probably Latin). I'm all excited about learning that.

Great pictures!

I found another headboard today for free on Craigslist! YAHOO! I've had the bench for awhile...had to paint it recently but will let it and the headboard weather a bit to give it that "I've been here awhile" look. :o)

Susie, I love those rounds, giving them an annual treatment of sealer...they're also pretty deep in the ground. I had some thinner ones elsewhere but they cracked.

Don't know the Latin name for the roses...just love 'em. These have survived through our harsh winters well. Olivia has 9 of them now...one for each year of her life. I cover them with pine needles through the winter and spray them with deer repellent in the other seasons because the deer LOVE them! Bad deer! :o)

Thanks again for your encouraging words! Bear Hugs! Kirk

Just luv everything, Kirk! The gate is wonderful! Great b'day gift! And like others have said, the blue bottle tree looks like it belongs right THERE! Everything is just so lovely...isn't this time of yr the greatest! Happy Summering to you & yours! Enjoy a bit of a break...altho my 2 teacher kids have already taken some credit classes this month! Anyway, WOW, enjoy! Jeanne S.

Cool pictures. Makes ya wanna sit a spell, don't it? And love the way the sun shines through those trees!
Vickie

Good to see your new projects, Kirk! Love that fence/gate! And the sitting spot in the woods, love it! ~tenderlee

Just placed my blue bottle tree back in the garden. Washed up the bottles... the sun makes the cobalt blue bottles SHINE!!!!!

Boy, I somehow missed this one the first time around! Your bottle tree looks awesome. I think Collections would love to use your picture for their catalog. I love what you did with the old gate and tools. The headboard looks great by your bench too. And what a sweet tradition to buy Olivia Rose a rose every year! That miniature rose is gorgeous! It looks like the petals are striped two different pinks. Lucky girl!

Hi I am new to Garden web, and love it....avid gardeners here for sure.

I love all your items...but the first thing I thought of with your headboard, since you said it matched the bench so well, well I don't mean to be intrusive to your post, but I thought that you could make a matching bench and use the headboard as the back of the bench...just an idea, (not that you needed any)..lol.

Garden on!

Oh boy...glad you got your bottle tree back in the sunshine! I've collected a few & still looking for a unique way for them to fit in my gardens! DH & I have been working on some garden projects ...so those wonderful license plates will be put to use soon! TFS, Kirk! Jeanne S.