Wheelbarrow bench

Clare Kirkpatrick saw this bench June 18, 2016, at the Royal Three Counties Show in Malvern.




The sign on the seat says "Wheelbarrow bench £395".

I googled "wheelbarrow bench." There are many images, though few as beautiful as the one above. Lots have normal rubber wheels and less elegant bench seats. For camping, though, it's a great idea—equipment could be moved from the automobile to the camping spot, and then the movers could sit and rest!

Professional miniature artsy art

"Cute and mini is our kind of gardening!"

Someone who works at Michaels arts and crafts store created and photographed that I think. On facebook, they asked for photos of other people's gnome gardens. Perhaps wheelbarrows will show up there, too.

Alicia Gonzalez-Lopez, who created the mini-me with a wheelbarrow, sent the image with this note:

A little wheelbarrow in a fairy garden. :) cute!
I think the LEGO wheelbarrow is tinier than this one. ;)

The only real thing?

Karen James captured this wheelbarrow at rest, at Harley Farms Goat Dairy in Pescadero, California, in May 2016.





I asked her if the wheelbarrow was the only real thing, and she wrote:

Well, it's a real barn with real hay and real goats--about 120 goats. I think they use the wheelbarrow to transport the feed from the storage silos they had nearby to inside the barn to a feeding trough for the goats.

So I'll classify it as a working wheelbarrow, on break.

Moving mountains

Laurie McPherson found this on a facebook collection called "Avantgardens", with the following text:

“The wo/man who moves a mountain
begins by carrying away small stones.”
+ Confucius, The Analects
Photo: Satori Gigie

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.

Don't choke on it

First wheelbarrow I've seen with a choking hazard warning!

From the Current Catalog, Colorado Springs, in the giftwrap accessories category:

Kirby and Keith

Our woodpile, 2016. Kirby Dodd with my plastic yard cart (two wheels, no steel but the axle, I think), and Keith Dodd with his steel and wooden-handled wheelbarrow.


I never noticed until I uploaded this that they're both from the same company, "TruTemper." The wheelbarrow, we've had for at least 15 years. We've replaced the tire (maybe the whole wheel). The yard cart is only a couple of years old. We've worn out two others, maybe different brands.

We have three little ramps in the yard, for the wheelbarrows. When I take the garden cart on them, I teip it over to one wheel. Maybe someday I'll bring photos of the ramps.