When is a garden fountain, not a
fountain?
When it’s over flowing with…
herbs!
This small, two-tier fountain, while
pretty, required a lot of
maintenance…cleaning, refilling
and such.
Too much work!
And this, rather unimaginative corner of our
garden needed a dose of
inspiration!
So we started, by adding a little
hedge of
English box (love the pop of green) &
painting the ‘antiseptic’ white door a
French blue gray.
(Thank you Troy.)
Next, the guys, (Jefferson Landscaping ~ thank you!) pulled the
motor so we could convert the fountain into
an inspired…
container
garden.
Do you love it?
I do! It plays right into my
edible garden theme.
I can’t wait to see the
top fountain tier spilling over with
succulent alpine strawberries
and…
petite striped (YES striped!)
zucchinis.
Can you imagine?
The bottom tier meanwhile, is brimming with
fragrant & silvery curry…
sage, trailing rosemary &
thyme.
Naturally, I tucked in a few garden
accouterments because in my
world…there are always
accouterments!
A charcoal colored
small pot holds garden
twine and such.
A classic wood handled
trowel is at the
ready and petite mason jars filled with
votives, flicker as
evening sets in. The effect is
quite simply,
magical…
night light.
I framed this garden corner with
a wonderful columnar
apple tree.
So fun!
There is more work to be
done here, of course!
I’m on the look out for
something to lean up against the
stucco. A
trellis perhaps, maybe
a few larger, bookend Box balls and
decorative
gravel. I’ll keep you
posted.
But for now, the eye has
a nice place to
land
and our old fountain, has an
inspired new
purpose.
Still…a little water…
required.
Ciao,
Monica
Plants ~ Ravenna Gardens
Nice, compact and pretty little addition to your corner! Looks like one of those battery operated votives……don’t you just love those?
xoxox Janice
Thank you Janice! Love the battery votives…wish they were waterproof!
xxo M