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    Creative Whimsy In Your Backyard & Garden, Part One

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    Creating Whimsy In Your Backyard & Garden, Part One. A homemade birdhouse out of a pink polka-dot teapot

    Spring is calling us outside into the yard and garden.

    Jonquils and tulips are popping, not to mention the robins hopping along searching for worms.

    Buds are swelling in anticipation of fresh leaves. The bluebirds and tree swallows are setting up house. The earth is beckoning to us. 

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    Your Yard & Garden, A Haven

    Spring also brings dreams to the homemaker who adores the fresh air and the glories of nature at her doorstep.

    If you love the look of whimsy and enjoy the fresh air of nature, you can make your own yard and patio or porch a little Eden on earth – at least for the warm months of the year. Many a homemaker has tried to add such little touches to her yard and garden to bring a simple beauty there.

     

    These simple and doable yard and garden ideas delight me, and I love to share them with you.

    They needn’t be expensive or grandiose. Save your money. Recycle what you have already. A well-thought out plan can make a drab corner a bright spot.

    Creating Whimsy In Your Backyard & Garden, Part One. An old blue toolbox planter, vintage metal flower planter

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    Creating Whimsy In Your Backyard & Garden, Part One. An outdoor storage unit/ wall storage

    I love this but would want to put it out of the weather when not in use

    An outdoor shower is not something everyone wants or needs, but our (much simpler) outdoor shower has been a huge worksaver here on the farm during planting and harvest season. 

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    This is perhaps one of my favorite ideas!

     
    Creating Whimsy In Your Backyard & Garden, Part One. A shady porch of grape vines to shade house

    A ‘green’, practical, and inexpensive way to cut cooling costs in summer

     

    A white backyard chair swing

    A swing under a leafy green tree is a wonderful place to read!

     
    Creating Whimsy In Your Backyard & Garden, Part One. Ball jar lighting with candles for outdoor party lights

    Charming candlelight for evening cookouts on the patio~

     

    Creating Whimsy In Your Backyard & Garden, Part One. A clever louvered set of shutters as a privacy backdrop for patio or garden

    Cattle panels give stability for hanging the shutters and also growing vines for privacy~

     
    Creating Whimsy In Your Backyard & Garden, Part One. A huge porch swing or floating bed with mattress and pillows,

    Make your own sleeping porch or shady restful get-away~

     

    Creating Whimsy In Your Backyard & Garden, Part One.. 3 potted plants on a fence in old bucket planters

    Very quaint, don’t you think?

    Contentment working alongside your creativity is one of the sweetest ornaments you can bring to your home! We can transmit great joy to our children and teach them that “if Mom is content, I can be content.” A busy, peaceful heart is contagious!

     

    I have a Part Two with some more fresh and clever ideas for your yard & little slice of Eden.

    Check it out :~) 

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    “For the LORD will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, And her desert like the garden of the LORD; Joy and gladness will be found in it, thanksgiving and the voice of melody.” ~Is. 51: 3

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    1. JES

      March 03, 2012 at 9:38 pm

      I broke a beautiful tea pot lid last month, but after viewing picture number one, I have recovered! Great ideas!

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      • Jacqueline

        March 03, 2012 at 9:57 pm

        Oh, yay! I am so glad that you can use it now!!! How neat!

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    2. Rhonda Devine

      March 03, 2012 at 10:32 pm

      Love these pics and I love adding whimsey to my garden too! I created broken china mulch–a great way to use up chipped dishes. I also created a wind chime from an old colander–so fun!!

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      • Jacqueline

        March 03, 2012 at 11:43 pm

        Rhonda, you are my kinda gal…so fun!

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    3. Deanna

      March 04, 2012 at 1:03 am

      This is so inspiring! Thanks for sharing all these lovely things….

      Deanna

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    4. Sarah

      March 04, 2012 at 2:19 am

      I’m really not a gardener, but really want to be! I’m very much looking forward to your posts, especially if there are any on gardening on a budget. I find that money is one of the things that stops me from making my garden beautiful…Either I would prefer to spend the money on something to decorate the inside of the home or I feel it is a waste. Do you have any thoughts to remedy this thinking? I would love a beautiful English garden, but would have to start from scratch and the few things we have planted so far (around ten plants, including two trees) have cost us several hundred dollars. Help!

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      • Jacqueline

        March 04, 2012 at 11:19 pm

        Sarah,
        I can relate to not wanting to spend money on something that will be wasted. I will put on my thinking cap and see if I can find some ideas of gardening on a shoestring. Trees do get costly, but I find evergreens like arborvitae are a good value if it sized right for the space… they just seem to live forever and have no maintenance.

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      • Lana

        March 05, 2012 at 8:38 am

        If you know anyone with a heavily wooded property they would most likely love to have you come and dig up some seedling trees to move to your property. We have 2.5 acres that are heavily wooded and we are in a constsnt battle to keep the seedlings cleared away!

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        • Jacqueline

          March 05, 2012 at 11:20 am

          Oh, Lana, You are a gal after my own heart! We have brought in trees to this property (they are still only 15-18′) and have a small (27″) tree mover. Both my husband and I love trees and have moved over 200 hundred out from under a taller canopy, some by hand as small as 18″ and some by machine as tall as 12′ with a trunk diameter of 2.5″. Some of those trees are now 45′ and 12′ diameter. I should do a post about it !!! it takes a tiny bit of insight, a canopy of big trees with babies, and lots of patience to wait to see them grow. We did most when we were in our 20s 🙂

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    5. Clint Baker

      March 04, 2012 at 6:33 am

      What great Ideas! I loved the teapot birdhouse and the old tire planters the best. Some people just have a better eye for that! You have a blessed Sunday and week for that matter!

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    6. [email protected]

      March 04, 2012 at 5:25 pm

      Loved looking through these ideas! We’re about to landscape our backyard and so we’re looking around for inspiration. Thanks for sharing!

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    7. Barb S.

      March 04, 2012 at 6:58 pm

      LOVE these ideas, Jackie! I have been looking at swing beds! And yes, I would love a tree from which to hang a swing OR…a big front porch with a double seated sled swing like we had when I was a kid! Thanks for sharing. “Pinning” this. 🙂

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    8. Your Gardening Friend (Holly)

      March 05, 2012 at 7:11 pm

      Just found your site on a blog hop.

      I LOVE these ideas! My favorites are the tea pot bird’s nest and the tire planters.

      I never would have thought tires could look so tastefully done as planters, but you’ve done a GREAT job. You have a beautiful backdrop of the stained wood, and an absolutely beautiful flower/foliage arrangement. I’m truly inspired!!

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    9. Your Gardening Friend (Holly)

      March 05, 2012 at 7:11 pm

      P.S. I hit the send button too soon.

      I’m gonna share this link on my website Facebook page. Thanks!! They’ll love it.

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      • Jacqueline

        March 05, 2012 at 9:32 pm

        Holly, Thank you for your kind words and for sharing it. I love your site 🙂 I will be back!!

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    10. MIRIAM LUIZA

      March 06, 2012 at 7:11 pm

      Lindos!São ótimas idéias, mas eu gostei mais do bule de bolinhas. Que criatividade! Eu tenho no meu pequeno quintal um cantinho verde que eu gosto muito, mas que dá para ficar mais lindo suas idéias. Abraços!
      Beautiful! These re great ideas, but I liked the pot balls. What creativity! I have in my little corner of a backyard green that I really like, but you have more beautiful ideas. Hugs!

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    11. Pam Fields

      March 06, 2012 at 11:15 pm

      Love the teapot idea. I have some stored that would be perfect. Lots of other great inspiration!

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    12. Gail @ The Imperfect Housewife

      March 09, 2012 at 9:18 am

      Would you like to come and decorate at my house? I don’t think I have a creative, decorative bone in my body! 😉

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    13. Arnalda

      March 09, 2012 at 1:43 pm

      I love reading through your blog…TY for sharing with us. Very pretty ideas here.

      Reply
    14. Jacqueline

      March 20, 2012 at 12:57 am

      Hi, Susan 🙂 I actually found this on the FB page of Two Women and Hoe under photos. I have no way of knowing where they found it. Thank you for letting me know. In the morning I will link back to you or remove the pic. Blessings.

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    15. Sherree

      April 12, 2012 at 2:50 pm

      I so love the teapot turned into a bird house. And the tires, they are the very thing that I want to put on the side of my metal shed when I get it painted. I want to paint it like the Texas flag. The tires with red, white and blue flowers would look so gorgeous. I just found your blog and must say that I have a considerable amount of time browsing. I love it. And the added scriptures, just add the flavor .

      Reply
    16. jilda hinton

      October 29, 2012 at 5:31 pm

      Love your blog. I’m a country girl and love your decorating ideas. I do not have much gardening skills but just love admiring beautiful gardens and outdoor decorating ideas. I will definitely use your teapot birdhouse idea especially since there is a thrift store just down the road from me that has all kinds of dishes and I’m sure I can find used teapots and other such paraphernalia for the garden.

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    17. sharon myers

      April 23, 2013 at 5:47 am

      i just found this site and LOVE it!

      Reply
    18. patty yoder

      May 04, 2013 at 12:38 am

      I’d like to reuse my gramma’s old wood porch swing. Thinking it’s not safe to sit on but what are your thoughts about putting some pretty potted flowers on it? Maybe having some vine up the chains? I’d like to hang it right outside my kitchen window under the arbor.

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      • Jacqueline

        May 04, 2013 at 2:01 am

        Patty,
        I can’t tell you how pretty that sounds! I love arbors, anyway, and if it gives a bit of shade to the pots in the heat of summer, so much the better. Not so much watering to be done. Can you stabilize it to keep it from blowing and throwing out the plants in a windstorm?

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