Pumpkin Topiaries

photo: Imperfectly Beautiful

Placing pumpkins perfectly in pots perpetually pleases a plethora of people!




photo: bhg.com

 Here's a simple how-to diagram (easy!) and some more examples. I do think plain pumpkins look best when there is a nice fluffy layer of something between each pumpkin, such as moss or faux leaves. Painted or carved ones look inetersting with or without it.



photo: Lowe's



photo: Southern Living



photo: bhg.com



Topiary Bat

Here's a nice idea for a haunted garden this Halloween: Make a topiary of a flying bat. Easy to do with a scrap of chicken wire shaped into a bat form, lots of moss to stuff inside the wire form, and fishing line wrapped around many times to keep the moss in. Attach a screw eye near the top of the bat for hanging. Add your plant, water, and you're ready to fly this bat anywhere you like (but a belfry is especially good!)

Living statues, part three: Human topiaries

Imagine your front garden.
Now imagine your front garden with these people dressed as topiaries in it, subtly shifting as the mailman arrives.

He may never deliver there again.

Available for hire in England, at the Living Statue Company.

How they got all those tiny leaves packed so densely on their clothes is beyond me. I'm pretty sure Joanne's Fabrics isn't carrying Japanese Boxwood (Buxus microphylla japonica) in 45" width rolls these days.

Garden Lady

Hello, World!
This is my first blog. We'll see if I get it right. I think I'll be posting a lot about things I covet for my garden, such as this reclining garden lady. I wish I had the space to grow something like her. I've had this photo for a while. I think it must be one of the works in Montreal, at the Mosaiculture (www.mosaiculture.ca) exhibit.
A slideshow of many of the intricate plant works there was making the e-mail rounds. I'm not fond of slideshows (sometimes there's no control over the pace), so here's a link to a scroll-through version.