I asked my sister, Emily to make me a little ceramic house for a tabletop garden. She was kind enough to say yes. After a few weeks and a million annoying questions from me (is it done yet? No? How about now?) I received this cute little cottage below. The roof lifts up and there is a sturdy "patio" base.
I originally planted the "yard" with Corsican mint and thyme. The thyme was scraggly but hardy. Not so the mint, which died the day after planting, leaving me with the embarrassment of a "lawn" below. Now, I'm not one of those crazy lawn people, and if it was covered in dandelions then we'd be golden, as far as I'm concerned. However, dead and brown lumps of former vegetation wasn't the look I was going for.....
....so I dug up some weeds and planted them. Weeds are supposed to be hardy, right? These better not die or I might have to go with a rock garden/zen garden/sand type of thing.
In my real (rented) yard, a huge tree limb fell in a storm last night. Luckily, I have a little more control of my little container garden. It was time to do a spring planting, for sure. Above is the end result; what do you think? I planted it with weeds from the (rental) front yard and made a little rock garden.Despite the term "growing like a weed", I'm not sure these weeds will flourish in this shallow container. Luckily, weeds are pretty easy to find if I need to replant :)
Here is the winter blah Before shot above and another After shot below
