Block #9 is about decorating
Do you put your flowers in the ground, set up a pots of flowers on the porch and call it a day?
Or are you finding little treasures to decorate your garden so that it feels cozy?
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27 Responses
Our Home Depot sells big bulbs of elephant ears that I get every year and plant bordering the front of the house. Because I don’t dig up the bulbs from prior years they get fuller. Everyone in our neighborhood stops to admire them and ask what I do to make them grow so big and full. In April our school district has a big plant sale grown by students and I load up on gerinums and hanging baskets of airplanes plants that I divide and plant in the ground. Wind chimes and humming bird feeders are also a must. My husband grows chili and tomatoes. Our sign as to when we can start planting without feari of a cold spell is when the mesquites start turning green. I live in West Texas.
I love, love your quilt work and patterns and really appreciate you sharing with this new quilter.
Love you lots, Diana
I collect and hang windchimes on my gate – a musical entrance to my garden.
I think quilting and gardening go hand in hand. All the shapes and colors. My blocks are being done in Christmas fabrics from my rather large stash, and I am loving them and your asymmetrical lay out is wonderful. Thanks I can’t wait for the snow to go away.
Me too!
I’ve seen toddler beds in my neighborhood used for gardens. Flower Beds!
sounds wonderful Robin!
That is cool!
darling!
Dodie I give you a bonus of how to use the block with every single weekly pattern, go back and look at all the others.
wonderful!! i LOVE sunflowers!
Being in Texas I have learned what grows and what doesn’t! What needs shade and what loves dry soil in a sunny place! So, I have a garden that borders the patio for plants like Lavendar and Dianthus. Then I have a garden along the side of the house for shaded plants and also a garden bordering the front of the house for other plants like lilies , Gerbera plants and the like. But I do use large pots on the patio with potato vines and and wild flowers that I can move in and out of the sun! I love summer time and I love starting fresh every year as well. Canna, Elephant ears, Hostas are also added additions to my various gardens. Last year I started an iris garden and it’s doing very well. Hopefully there will be many blooms this year!
Happy gardening to everyone that gets the itch like I do!
My father was very much into the gardening. One year he used an old metal bed frame and put the flowers in it to look like a quilt on the bed. It was so interesting looking that he even had a picture of it in the newspaper.
Yes to all parts of your question but my favourite thing is my garden gnome that my friend gave me. He sits on the steps under his sunflower umbrella – being careful of the uv rays!
Is page 4 just an Extra idea you put in?
Im a gardner. We plant a big vegetable garden every year and I have flowers everywhere including a couple Sunflower gardens that I leave for the birds to enjoy thru winter.
Lucky to have your own personal gardener!
let me know if you do!
fun Anita!
how wonderful to have hummingbirds!! I need windchimes. A house in my neighborhood has them and I love the sound
thank you!
cute!
My husband is our planter and watered. He puts pots of beautiful geraniums on our front porch. And around our deck. He picks them off and has them looking beautiful all summer.
I have liked the thought of Bottle trees for years. Think this year I will see if I can get my Brother-in-Law to weld me a tree. A pretty good sized one. I have been collecting the bottles for a long time. Think they will look wonderful catching the sunlight. Am loving these blocks and the layouts. Love Rosalie
I throw them around like scattered in the wind around the yard, pile the flowers into little corners of the yard and even add a vegetable plant or two here and there. No special arrangements. some pots have old toys that belonged to my sons when they were wee and are now for the new little ones that are coming along to discover (treasures). I love my flowers – everywhere!
Windchimes are a part of my garden. I have a few sparkles of red to draw the hummers in. It is sweet to see the tiny birds gathering spider webs for creating their very tiny nests. Their soft hum is like whipering to the flowers.
Loving the Flower Bouquet Sew Along ❤️
My birdbath, birdhouses and bird feeders are my favorites – but I do add a few garden figures – like a frog, rabbit and a statue of two children playing leap-frog.