Barb’s Birdbath Planter

It started with a birdbath, then turned into a whole new garden section

Hello , my name is Barb Mrgich . I ’ve been garden on the same property for 31 years now and havecontributed to GPOD once before . Each year , I usually start a new projection or garden area . I started this labor in the late summertime on a whimsy when I buy an passee birdbath .

I brought it home and was looking for a good spot for it when I decided it postulate to have its own little garden properly in front of this hedging . The first affair I did was stab out an outline in the grass to see what I wanted theedge , shape , and size to be .

Next , I dug my abstract a fiddling deep , then pounded some run and crush stone into my trivial ditch to make a footnote for the landscape city block I had buy . Then I laid my pulley-block , strain to be heedful to keep it all level . I drop some time shoveling compost out of my bins to make full the sphere right up to the tops of the block . Then I left the undertaking sit over the wintertime so that everything could settle .

In the spring when I seek to make full my birdbath , I light upon it just would n’t bear water system , so I make up one’s mind to sprain it into a planter . Because it is shallow for plants , I usedsucculentsthat would handle the dry stain . I was pleased with the upshot .

I added a miscellany of annual and perennial to dispatch my new trivial garden , then had the remaining Gunter Grass in the sphere bricked to blend in with the existing patio . I was felicitous with my outcome , except that next yr I will move those daylily . They tried to hide the birdbath , and the rabbits run through most of the wavepetunias !

Overall , I liked the way the new garden blended into the patio area .

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