Shade Garden Update and Thrifted Decor - #2 

Joanne, I can tell you’ve been working hard. I love all your thrifted items for your garden.

Oh boy you really scored on the garden decorations. It will be so much fun sitting there next summer. Hugs 😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Your view is absolutely gorgeous! ❤ I love the planter, especially the color of it, that you are making the fountain with. You are working hard and making progress. It will be beautiful!

I love the cat with the bird on his arm he woukd look good standing near the bird bath or the lovely bird house. It would look like he was helping the bird get into the bath !!!

Just love the frog you were gifted and the inch worm.

Nice work. The backyard looks great, and the lake is awesome. You got some nice finds thrifting. ❤

Can't wait to see more. What wonderful ideas and finds. Love you much. HUGS!!!

Can't wait to see the finished product.

Hi Joanne. Your shade garden is coming along. You really found some amazing items for your garden. I love the big frog your friend gave you. The praying hands are beautiful. I think the cat and bird is adorable. Your garden is going to be lovely when it is finished. Thank you for the update. Please keep us posted. Take Care. God Bless

That broomstick with the big knob on the end looks like an ammunition plunger for an old fashioned cannon. Go figure😂 The gunmen would wrap hessian around the knob to make it a tight fit to tamper down the gunpowder. Your place Joanne, is wonderful. Your projects will be fabulous. I love the bird house too.

Your garden is going to be amazing. Your scenery. is amazing. Thank you for sharing. Hugs and love always

Hi, Joanne! Love the “thrifted” pillows you found at Walmart. Good price. Your yard is really shaping up and I love your backyard! Nice view. Hope all is well with the fur babies and you! I hear the geese in the background. I love watching them fly over. Great job! Hugs!🥰👍💜🍁🍁🍁

You have such a pretty view from your yard!! Right on the water! I love your garden decor!!! ❤ hugs, Eileen

Sounds like its going to be a wonderful shade garden💞

Your yard is going to be great. Love the ftog and cat. Take care.

Gardening is a lot of work, Joanne! I agree! Last summer I planted about 12 bushes in my new flower garden. I moved to a condo last summer. I put in 7 rose bushes. 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹! Now I need to get out there and prepare my beds for winter. Hugs, Eileen

I think you have chosen some really nice decor for the Shade garden. I love to see you excited about it. It's so fun to create. I enjoy working in my flower garden. It's in the front of my house under a window. I have frogs in it also. Whimsical and cute. I'm sure you will enjoy your garden when it's all done. If I was there I'd help you dig. Love doing that kind of stuff. The pillows are colorful . I can't wait to see it finished. I know it will take time. If you hired someone just to clean the undergrowth that's hard to do. You could just do the planting, and enjoy it so much sooner. It will be gorgeous. ❤ Kind regards Deana

I pulled weeds and planted over 100 bulbs today! It is hard work but will be worth it next spring. Love all the critters!

Wow lots of work to do but you will make it beautiful. Loved all the candle holders great idea for Bird feeders or bsths. Beautiful view behind you loved the geese flying by

I love all the pieces you have found for your shade garden. This will look wonderful when it is finished. It does take a long time though to get that ivy taken up. Thanks for sharing and good luck at Heidi's yard sale. I'll bet it is going be a big one. Have a Blessed day.

Use a marine spar varnish for outdoor pieces. I have used it for 40 plus years, even on my wood doors outside. It’s pretty weather resistant.

I love the frog

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The wood pole with end on it reminded me of the saurkraut tamper we had on the farm. Good luck with your project, lots of work, but well worth it.

What fun its going to be to plan and build your garden it will be awesome,with all your thrift ed items. Look on line for plant catalogs for plants that's my favorite thing to do during winter to plan for plants I want. autumn colors looked so pretty from your back yard

Oh Joanne that Bird House is gorgeous. I know it’s messed up now but wow I love painting and decorating them. I know you’re going to make it just beautiful I can’t wait! You have a nice backyard it’s going to really look great when you’re done. Too bad you can’t have sone kids maybe help you clean out all that ivy it’s such a big job for just one person to do. Maybe your daughter and some of her friends can do it for you. You can order pizzas for them in return for the favor. Hugs to you. Have a great weekend ❤

Ahhh, Joanne, I have a hole in my wing, too ;> Lots of work in a beautiful spot - good job!

The wood stick with the log like took might look cute with the stick part in the ground with a rustic little bird house on top

Jo, I soak the ground with hose before digging holes for plants/trees. I often let it trickle overnight.

I’m anxious to see how it comes along. I thought that bird house was so pretty. You found a lot of pretty pieces.

Good job.

You should either rent a tiller or hire someone to come in and do it for you. It’ll save you hours of heavy labor. It’ll get up the roots of plants you’re trying to remove. Then you can get it planted very quickly. Money well spent in my opinion. I hired my yard man 13 years ago to dig up bushes and put in a two-tiered raised flower garden. He used landscape Timbers and hauled in dirt. Boy does a small garden take a lot of dirt. It was so beautiful those first years, but not so much lately with vole infestation. Also, people buy me perennials. I just put them in. They are all wrong for the space because they are mostly sunny plants and I have mostly shade. Some folks thinks plants just grow anywhere. It’s the thought that counts. I’ve had them for years. I’m hoping for little snow and cold temps this winter. Maybe they’ll be frozen out. A couple of Timbers are rotting but the flowers usually hang over the edges so you can’t see it. It’s an easy fix. What a great assortment of garden ornamentals you have. Wow. I don’t recommend painting anything white. I have some white pots and hate them. You would probably enjoy an earthy tone like brown, black or green or mottled. I just speak from personal experience and my taste. You do what you would enjoy most. I love your backyard area with the pond. It’s beautiful, Joanne. That mallet looks like it came from a butter churn or some such utensil. My solar sprinkler has extenders on at least four sides to keep it from drifting too far to one side. If yours is in the box, they may be included. If not, you could fashion some. There are probably holes in the sides of the sprinkler to insert extenders.

I love all the things for the yard! They are amazing! That thing with the cylinder at the bottom of a stick that you said Rhonda bought for a dollar reminds me of a toasted marshmallow on a stick. I wonder if you could paint it to look more like that? Thanks for the vid!!😊

Probably my favorite video!❤❤ I enjoyed every bit and can see how you are envisioning it. Those vines definitely are a lot of work to remove. Is it English Ivy? I love that you are excited about this❤😊😊

It is easier to dig holes if you wet the spot with the garden hose. It is very hard to dig holes in my yard. I rewet the hole while I am digging it. I agree with other comments…that is a big area to do by hand. That ivy will be difficult to clear.

I would hire some college kids to clear it for you save your hands and your back (I just had carpal tunnel surgery, so I know how it can damage your jands) there ate always adds in Facebook or next door app for people that want work

Hire someone to do the clearing away, seems like a lot of work.