Inspiration and Ideas

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8 years ago

I’d love this to be an ongoing thread, please add anything you come across!

Some I’ve seen recently ....

I really want this:

Using vintage lamps!

How beautiful is this? But also, $$$:

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PKponder TX Z7B

8 years ago

That fence and gate have my heart!I actually researched the 'how to' for that sort of fence.

The broken pot cactus garden is doable if all of the cacti were hardy in this climate.

I always wanted to do this one

There was a fence that I saw on Garden Junk some time back where the lady (lindasewandsew) collected a boatload of old cedar fencing, then cut hearts and designs and inserted marbles in the designs and knotholes after painting the whole thing butter yellow if I remember right. The pictures were hosted on photobucket and I sadly didn't save it.

I have this saved as inspiration too

here's another that I plan to do

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8 years ago
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Posting pictures gave me a flashback to the late ‘90s, when I joined the BHG boards .... if anyone posted pictures in a thread, people got irate, “Please put that you’re including photos in the title, it freezes my dial-up!”. :D
B in 8a DFW
8 years ago
Those lamps would be obliterated by hail every year.
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Irving Ragweed (Austin 8b)
8 years ago
A tailgate waterfall? Never assume you've seen everything.
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8 years ago
Ohhh, very pretty, PK! Really love the last one.
wantonamara Z8 CenTex
8 years ago
I have a bunch of those broken pots that I could do that staggered thing with. I have this huge and getting bigger Epyphillum stricta that keeps thinking it can hanglide on those big winds. You would think the owner would learn. I have broken three pots this year. I even wired it to a fence post and it still worked free.
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8 years ago
I want to do this, too—
PKponder TX Z7B
8 years ago
That's cool looking, Miz_G!
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buttoni_8b
8 years ago
Some very creative folks gardening out there. LOVE the pickup truck idea. We looked at a place to buy near Rosebud that had a rusting out 40's red pickup on it that this idea would have been perfect for!
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8 years ago
Miz_G, what wonderful inspiration pics! I love every single one of them - especially the "waterfall pickup", as I've never seen anything like that and admire the creative mind that thought that up! What fun!
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8 years ago
Ida, that lamp one would’ve looked amazing at your last house!

Our rental yard is so tiny, I’d have to make a fountain out of one of the toy trucks. :D
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8 years ago
Oh, yes! The lamps are just adorable! And hey, you've seen our yard, which I think is tinier than tiny. I have a reproduction toy truck that looks like an old one (but maybe a bit too small to use as a planter). I did have a vintage one - wearing the most wonderful old chippy blue paint - that I somehow let go of when we moved. Wish I had it back now! I just love them filled with succulents.
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Bag of Bees
8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago
So I would never do this, but I saw it on Instagram and thought it might be inspiring to someone else, hahah.
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8 years ago
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That is seriously creepy!

I could see if one neighbor hated another, putting it along the property line. What a view! Kiss my **** :D
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Bag of Bees
8 years ago
Miz_G - Haha, agreed!
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8 years ago
I used to do mosaics ... I like this idea for those ugly concrete blocks.