How does my garden grow?

Remember the old English nursery rhyme "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells ... ?"

My garden here at the farm is a flower garden. It flourishs with lots of love, a dash of luck, warm sunshine, and the necessary rain. My favorite flowers are ones that attract butterflies and hummingbirds, so I've filled the landscape with perennials to meet that goal.

My favorites are the traditional pink coneflower, although I've recently discovered a beautiful geranium red and bright yellow-orange variety that I must find room for somewhere. . . hummmm . . . .

I also love Coreopsis . . . It is a beautiful bright yellow flower. The petals look more like a Shasta Daisy, but it also reminds me of a coneflower. I just planted this one last year.

Mary Quite Contrary had silver bells. I have a silver-colored bucket from the Red Hill General Store that I use to store my hand tools in. It is the 2-quart galvanized bucket, a good size for my three favorite tools . . . hand clippers, a garden claw, and weeder.

My Red Hill bucket has become a good friend. You see, I was always looking for these garden tools before . . . tearing the garage apart every time I needed one or the other. The bucket has captured them quite nicely. Why didn't I think of that before?

I painted my favorite coneflower on it and keep in the kitchen with the tools inside.

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Can you garden without a painted bucket? Sure. But, I have a lot more fun now because I have a smile on my face when I look at my decorative, yet practical bucket sitting on my kitchen counter, ready to go outside with me!

Life on the farm is always good!

While Red Hill General Store did provide me with a bucket to blog about for this post, the pictures, ideas and opinions shared here are my own!

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