The planting beds in front of our converted barn home were already here when we moved to the farm, extremely overgrown and weedy. All we could identify appeared to be native Texas plants but they had thrived in neglect and grew way out of proportion. Some are actually painful to work around, being prickly or pokey. Lantana plants swallowed whole prickly pear cacti that had the misfortune to be planted nearby.
Little by little, Bill has cleared out some of the mess — those huge pokey plants, species unknown, require the truck to pull them out! Under some of the mess, I found this 3” figurine leaning and holding his jug close, and a large pedestal. No clue as to what was once sitting on the top of it, if anything. Maybe I can find a shallow bowl to place on it for a bird bath.
I made the grapevine up (loosely copying my blog banner) to unite the other two sketches — we are trying to decide between planting grapes or blackberries. Blackberries will probably win, being native to this area.
No comments:
Post a Comment