Wheelbarrow Succulent Fairy Garden!

Jodi Stinebaugh shared this facebook find, and wrote:

Sandra Dodd, for your wheelbarrow collection. Dianne German, I know it's not a sand tray but it feels like it belongs in that family. Now I know what I could do with my old, beat up wheelbarrow. ❤

A planter with a story

Posted on facebook by "Cottage in the Oaks":

This old wheelbarrow sits out by our woodshed, and we plant different flowers in it with the seasons. It was my grandfather’s wheelbarrow….the only one he ever used. He used it for all of his gardening, for cement to lay foundations for his business and home….it’s huge! Lots of legacy and lessons in that wheelbarrow. And for many years now it has held a special place in our garden…a little spotlight. The daffodils have just started blooming in it, and in a couple of months it will overflow with coleus. 🤎

(those on facebook can read the comments there)

Thanks to Theresa Larson for showing me.

Cactus, Spain

Ester Siroky took these photos in 2021. They came up in facebook memories, and somehow I failed to bring them here sooner.

I don't suppose wheelbarrow photos are very time-sensitive.

Birthday pansy photos

Happy birthday Sandra Dodd! 🎉🎈
A wheelbarrow full of Kes’s cross pollinated Pansies for you. 🌸🌼
Hope you have a lovely day.✨

Janine Davies sent that, and these photos, in 2020. I saw them in facebook memories, and came to see if I had shared them here. Now I have.

I love the wall and the brickwork, the flowers, the wheelbarrow, and Janine for sending the photos, and Kes for being a young boy (younger two years ago) who plants flowers and sees beauty.

Simple Life

I don't have the source link for the art, but this was posted on Facebook by Ark Kazad, whom I've known over half my life.

The text is from Kelly Exeter, at this site: http://kellyexeter.com.au/manifesto-for-a-simple-life

The comment I left when that was first shared (and I linked this blog):

And there's a wheelbarrow. Wheelbarrow appreciation can make the world a more beautiful place, too, if every time you see a wheelbarrow you think of the history and elegance and the power it gives a single person to carry more than his or her own weight.

Garden Spill art

Janine Davies wrote of this wheelbarrow in a front garden in East Molesey, Surrey, London, UK:

It's freshly placed and created, and being planted up as I write. I'll do an after picture for you when the plants are bigger. I like the design of it.

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UPDATE, two months later and note from Janine:

This one is now overflowing with flowers. I sent you a photo a while back of it when it had been freshly placed and there was only soil in it. One red handle appears to be the only visible sign of the barrow now.

Peaceful, night-time wheelbarrow

Quiet and artsy.

Also from Spot Nixon, whose recent photo stirred up old storage. Glad I found this.
I think it's holding burro's tail and a glass float, but if I'm wrong, please leave a message!

Tulips, California

This is similar to the wheelbarrow Holly photographed in Española. I think maybe they were/are sold for landscaping or planters, because they're not very practical-looking. Rubber tires have been around plenty long. :-)

Spot Nixon sent this in late winter, 2016.

Birthday wheelbarrow

Sent by Bruno Venturini as a birthday greeting (the image, not the whole wheelbarrow!), from Portugal (or lifted from the internet by someone in Portugal, not sure yet).

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Bruno sent his source:

Decorando Meu Lar: Idéias singelas Para o seu jardim

Hampton Court Station, stealth-barrow

Janine Davies wrote, on March 13, 2015:

A Wheelbarrow for you Sandra. It is on the Platform of Hampton Court Station and I can't believe I have never noticed it before....Its chained down... and has a flat tyre, and seems to be a herb garden of sorts. It's near the entrance but to the side and slightly obscured by the cafe so actually very missable, but once I saw it I couldn't believe I had missed it all these times! Even when Holly was here.


Sandra Dodd:
They're everywhere, and elegant-but-plain, and engineering masterpieces, yet mundane. Thanks for the photo!

Michelle Hodgson-Gregory:
I've never seen that either!!!!!!!! HOW MANY times have I been to that station???

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As a profound trivial tie-in, the day before a wheelbarrow that is chained to the ground at Hampton Court Station travelled (its image, anyway) to Albuquerque, a banana was given a motorbike ride in Vietnam... This is drectly related to the wheelbarrow above. Okay, INdirectly related, but probably as close as Albuquerque and a Vietnamese motor bike, all in a two-day period can be!!!

Eco-village, Carrumbin Waters, Queensland

In front of a house in a large gated community that doesn't allow dogs or cats—so wildlife will be out and about.

The wheelbarrow seems especially reinforced, but was sitting as a little planter.

Surprise gift from Minnesota

Alex Polikowsky sent this, and Holly assembled the parts which were wrapped separately in the box. Felt flowers, floral-arrangement bits. :-)

Yellow, flowers

Albuquerque, candid, a few blocks from "Walt's house."

Italian, rusty with a big rock and a cactus

Cath Goudouchaouri wote:
a wheelbarrow for you, photo taken in South Italy (Peschici, Gargano, Provincia di Bari)

I asked if the cactus was in the wheelbarrow or on the other side of it. Cath said it was in it. "The plant is called figuier de barbarie in french... (latin name : Opuntia ficus-indica : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opuntia_ficus-indica) - you can eat the fruit but carefully : it has a very prickly skin !"

So, in English, prickly pear.

This is a good time to bring out a photo I took a couple of years ago in Austin. This one didn't seem to be planted, or art. The wheelbarrow's handles were broken, and I suspect it had been sitting there since a yard cleanup years ago, in which little cactus had been thrown in there to get rid of it.

It was out in the back with junk, but had turned itself to art, gradually, over the years.

That second cactus might not be prickly pear, and if anyone wants to ID the cactus, that would be great! Austin, downtown where the art studio tour was.