Repurposing in my Garden

An old bedroom lamp meets a broken solar light and we have a light in our sitting area at night. I saw this idea 'on Facebook' ;)

Note the other repurposed item above - the stem snapped off a glass goblet and Kelly put it to good use holding some sedum.

I'd been hanging onto an old brass headboard for years. Many times Kelly tried to put it to the curb when cleaning out the garage. It finally found a spot at the back of the yard. Aside from supporting a clematis, it also blocks the deer from coming through.

One other thing we repurposed a few years ago still supports our Halls honeysuckle. We had new neighbours who were getting rid of old iron railings... so I grabbed them. We have a fake stairway to nowhere against the garage.

Another remnant of the Gardener before me...

A few years ago, I found pink Honeysuckle along our private road but I didn't do anything about that. The road is a summer road and truth is, we don't even use it then for vehicles. For us, it is really just a really great place to walk the dogs.

Rarely have I done any weeding along this road. It is a long road and bush grows up to it on both sides. Couple that with no vehicle traffic and it was getting very overgrown.

Last year I found the Honeysuckle again. I cleared out around it and made note of where along the path it was. This year, Miles cleared the overgrowth and pruned the trees to open the road up for vehicles comfortably again. The sunlight and the weeds cleared away made a big difference to the Honeysuckle and there is no way I will loose sight of it again.

The other pleasant surprise? It was obviously planted there by the Gardener before me because it has two friends that are blooming across the road from it!