I like everything you found EXCEPT the plant! It is as hard to get rid of as KUDZU!!! I have been fight with it
since the 1970's and it is winning. It comes up everywhere. I have sprayed it with roundup and it laughs!
It has a beautiful flower, but that is the only good thing about it!
The name is Clerodendrum Bungei. It is VERY invasive!

Oh NOOOOOO,the mexican hydrangea?? EEk, I can't have that taking over, I'm battling privet and trumpet creeper as it is! And I actually paid money for it,LOL! Thanks for the heads up!! This is the first time I'd ever seen one,and of course,the lady neglected to mention that,lol! I need to stick to the farmers market for my plants and not buy too many at yard sales that I know nothing about!

we have a stool just like that :) mine is all metal though, so I just spray paint it when the mood strikes.
good luck with the paint removal, it is cute!

Wow! Great deal on the kitchen step stool. I've been looking here and they are too expensive. I have a cow skull exactly like that. Lol. I love the ladders too. Great finds!

You found some neat items!

You might want to research the plant before you rip it out or something because in some areas things are invasive but not in others :) Also, some other avid gardeners here at GW may be able to tell you how to keep it under control! Some people can successfuly grown invasive plants without them taking over by just planting them in a bucket or something. Good luck! :)

The flower is very pretty. Never seen one. The finds are all great! Yep grew up with one of those step stools too... it was yellow.

Love all of your goodies! I have a question about the copper and glass that you have behind that trap. Are they lights? If so how are they made?

We don't have that plant, but we just got a brochure from our local forestry about trying to keep it from coming here to our specific area.

I like the steer head, but found them to be quite expensive when we were in Texas a few years ago. I haven't seen one at any sales, but did see the skull of a (supposedly) 12 ft. alligator at one. Still outta my price range at $265!

I recall the step-chair too. My former MIL still had hers just a few years ago. My granny had one too that was white/chrome.

great items....LOL at Nonas comment....she is totally right on that one...have that stuff..I call it cashmere plant(sp?) It is everywhere in my yard. And it stinkssssssssssssssssssssssssss but it is pretty and its the only thing blooming in the 100+ heat of the late summer so I keep it and just cut down the ones I don't want or dig or pull them out. If you don't want it everywhere then get rid of it now...LOL not sure how it spreads...seems to pop up everywhere you least want it to.(-: Good luck with it(-:

I love the plant stand. I have a collection of these. Love them!

GGG

Thanks ya'll. I did a little research,that plant has several names, one is Cashmere Bouquet,lol. It's still in the pot,where I'm going to keep it. The leaves DO stink!
I just realized the skull has a bullet hole in it,so sad.

GardeningPeggy, those are some kind of glass globes I just glued to some wooden dowels I painted copper,they don't have any lights in them. They're just pretty colored glass.

IF that is indeed KUDZU, it is HIGHLY invasive here in Ms!!! But I'm not sure that's what that is. I didn't think it made a flower like that. There was a field of it close to a home we pass going to town and someone mowed it down and placed a double wide trailer in there. I was like OH MY WORD that mess is going to take over that trailer and they wont be able to find the front door. LOL but they have kept the grass cut down low all the time and I don't know if they had sprayed it with something or not but it doesn't seem to be in the yard right around the trailer now. BUT if they stopped mowing the yard it might show it's ugly head again.
Love your stuff and your porch is GORGIOUS!!! Wish I had those kinds of cruvy boards on mine instead of the 2x2's we have. I want mine to look more Victorian. Have even thought about adding some gingerbread trim to it to make it look more Victorian.

I had one of those stools too...Ours was gray. Actually I think it might still be out in the shed.

I recovered it several years ago with a navy blue (little white diamond shapes) apolstery fabric.

I should check out there and see...and if it is still there I should recover it again and take steel wool to the chrome.

You got some neat things. I'd put that plant in a giant container.

patti

Kudzu.. try cooking oil to remove the paint without damaging the vinyl. Just keep rubbing it over th paint spots and eventually it works under the paint and lifts it. Worth a try.

Jackie

LOL,no it's not kudzu, it is exactly what Nona said it is..Clerodendrum Bungei..Mexican Hydrangea,Cashmere Bouquet, Rose Glory Bower, it has several names. It's still in the pot I bought it in,so are most of the new plants I bought, where they'll stay. I haven't decided to keep it or not, but I'm grateful you pointed out that it's an invasive plant. I usually buy from the Farmers Market in the country, but sometimes I buy from a yard sale. From now on I'll stick to the Farmers Market for my flowers! Thank you all for the nice comments on our new front porch, we've been working two years to get this far on our rebuilding since the storm. We didn't want frilly gingerbread trim,so I drew out a design and my DH cut these from deck boards. Sort of a leaf and vine shape. We have a stack of rebuilding materials sitting inside and outside. The heat index has been in the 100's,so we may have to wait til fall to do any more work. I was going to put in my new garden pond I got for Mother's Day, looks like if I do work on it,it will be one shovelful a day,lol! Thanks also for the tips on our cute little step stool, I'll try those out and see how it works. Here is a couple pics of the work in progress,this part,and the deck are the only ones with the new siding on it,I still need a couple windows replaced before we go along the front side. It's an old,old house,and it was made from century old houses way back then,nothing is square or plumb,lol,and the 2x4's are actually 2x4,and hard as a rock,sometimes impossible to get a nail or screw in. But the porch is nice to relax on,and listen to the rain hit the tin roof. LOL,notice the saw horses,and another headboard leaning there waiting to be made into a bench :) And the lattice trim to go around the bottom of the porch,just needs to be fastened on.
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Your porch is darling. Your chairs and those huge ferns make it look so inviting. I love all the spindles and detail work on it too. And all your creations add just the right element of fun too. Luvs

I love your porch. Makes me want to sit down and get comfy.

The porch IS darling. Are those fan arms on the corners of the porch? Are those lights on metal poles, or pretty jars hung upside down on rebar. Either way very pretty.I don't have $$ for lights but it gives me ideas.

Yes your porch and place are really sweet,like the gingerbread trim!I actually had that clerodendrum die on my property but I planted another which is totally surrounded by cement.It has little white nosegays of whitish flowers.I planted one and it filled in the area entirely.Thank goodness it is contained in the cement. As we say at the EXT office Right plant Right Place!