Thursday, August 20, 2009

what will $20 buy you?

it started in the garden when i found some wisteria growing under a bench. (my neighbor has the biggest, oldest wisteria tree in her yard and it sends seeds to our yard). it was a really long piece of wisteria; about 6 feet long. i looked at it thought, wow, this would be cool to wrap around something. so i didn't whack it, cut it or pull it. it's continued to grow and grow until recently when i mentioned this project to my husband. so we dug out these two free columns that we pilfered from a dumpster. they've been sitting under our deck waiting to be called into service. last week at the New Egypt flea market, i saw in the scrap yard, tons of metal stuff; so i dragged jeff there yesterday and we bought 2 pieces of salvaged metal railings for $20. i thought one of them would be the perfect thing to run between the 2 columns and then wind the wisteria through. so what do you think?


5 comments:

  1. that looks amazing! i can just imagine how it will look after the wisteria grows in more. purty.

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  2. Oh, this is just wonderful!!!!! It's amazing what you can create out of what seems to be... nothing. This photograph is just so dreamy, I wish I was standing beneath the real thing! Great job... what a garden hideaway!

    Hugs,
    Christina

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  3. It looks fabulous. I hope we get to see some photos once the wisteria flowers
    Alison

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  4. Love it! Lucky enough to see it in person yesterday...such and inspiring home!
    {{Carnie Hugs}}

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  5. Wow! looks like you have a awesome garden. next time you are at that flea market take photos. I would love to see what a NJ flea market has to offer.

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