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Creative Pot Painting Ideas to Brighten a Shady Garden

A garden with a pillars, a tall birdhouse and various pots

My sweetheart, who rarely does things by half, bought a job lot of creamy-white clay pots at wholesale prices decades ago. Most survive. Some are huge, others, squat; all are big enough to hold several plants. Over the years, they have been not exactly hidden, but tucked as out of the way as such a collection can be in a smallish garden. You can spot one in the top picture beside Granny’s chicken and another in the background. Continue reading “Creative Pot Painting Ideas to Brighten a Shady Garden”

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Colourful Pavement Garden In Lancashire, England

Pavement garden with lots of flowers

I’ve been fascinated by the use of containers clustered together to create the illusion of a garden since my first visit to Japan where the style is widespread. This fine example of a container garden is much closer to home.

Diminutive, but for me, as sweet as they come, it brightens up the entrance to a traditional stone-faced terrace that opens directly on to the pavement. Continue reading “Colourful Pavement Garden In Lancashire, England”