Tales From the Garden

In my garden - both indoors and out - I tend to do a lot of . . . Face Plants!

Not the kind of face plants where I fall on my face (although . . . that could happen . . . ). I'm talking about planters . . . with faces.

I've always been drawn to face plants, and I have many of them in my garden. I think they're charming and whimsical . . . and it's fun to maintain their "hairstyles" too.

A couple of weeks ago, I added two new face plants to my collectioon. They're pretty tiny, but packed with fun.

It looks like my "thing" with faces might be expanding, though. Because I also added this little creature to my menagerie. . .

I'm always looking for fun in my garden!
How about you? Do you "face plant" in your garden, too?

 

 

Comments

[Debbie]

I think all your "face plants" are great with their funky green hair, but I especially like that cute turtle pot!

[Vera]

Great containers Kym! I bought my first face plant the other week and also bought an Eyelash Fern to go in it...but I think the fern died.....

[Carole]

I have a few containers with faces, too, and I think they are great! Face plant is the perfect name for them and I'm glad you didn't actually fall . . . which is what I thought might have happened when I saw the title of this post!

[Margene]

How fun to see little people peeping through your plants to keep an eye on things! The whimsey and charm just makes me smile!

[Bonny]

I'd love to face plant, as I've always admired Vicki's vintage lady planter that used to appear prominently on her blog. I visited 7 or 8 antique/junk shops last weekend, kind of hoping to find a similar planter, but no luck. I do have a vintage turtle planter that has some succulents in it, but I think I still need some face plants.

[Sarah]

I love your faces! The only face I have in my garden right now is the fake owl I got to try to scare away the rats from my composter. And thus far it only seems to have scared my husband and my kid.

[Vicki]

So whimsical! I guess I'm pretty Plain Jane in the garden. Or maybe I don't go to the right places. ;)

[sustainablemum]

Such fun! I don't have many pots as they crack and damage in the Winter and I don't have anywhere to store them to protect them from that. I love your pots.

[Carolyn]

I don't have face plants in my garden but was very tempted to buy this pot at Target this summer. It's so cute! https://www.target.com/p/outdoor-ceramic-family-planter-opalhouse/-/A-84286032#lnk=sametab

[Jane]

I don't face plant but I love your planters. I so enjoy your sense of whimsy. Where do you find all these things?

[Carolyn]

Such fun! And a question...I've been trying to root my begonia (red one, just like yours that I spot in this post...)--but one stem is just turning to MUSH! And the other one is simply doing nothing. Any advice? I'll try to overwinter the plants in their pots, but they've taken a few beatings during storms and I was hoping to propagate a few of the 'victims'. I'd appreciate a tip, if you have one!

[Mary]

so much fun! I do love the hairstyles on the human(ish) faces and the succulent (I think that is) in the turtle is perfect. as you might imagine, no faces on the pots around here ;-)