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I want a medatrainan feel in my backyard. Im going to spay paint some cool wrought iron stuff I have black and also redo my garden chairs and table over with black spray paint and add new chair pillows in reds and orangs. Any other ideas for plants or thing I can use around the house to recycle. Please not the old toilet trick of planting a plant in it. Thanks for any info on the cheap.

You can take 2 large, Clay flower pots, & butt the small ends tog & connect them with a large bolt/screw; then either plant a plant in the top, or else put a piece of glass or wood over the top, to make a small table.

2008-03-17 14:21:41 by shawnie

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I am moving into a antebellum home in Mississippi this week. My entrance is on the side of the home and I have about permission to create a garden area just behind my porch. The space from the wall of the house to the tall shrubs bordering the neighbor's yard is about 15 ft wide and about 20 ft deep.

I have been looking at photos to get an idea of what the elements of a New Orleans courtyard are. I will be using red 18 X 18 inch concrete pavers (rather than brick, due to cost). I have come up with the following list of elements to incorporate to try to get the "feel".

Wrought Iron (will try to find fence pieces at local junk stores) and table and chairs.
Palm trees (many have some type of green trees overhead)
Tropical plants in terra cotta pots
water element (they love fountains, will try to find a small one)
Statues (classical)
white paint (many have a touch of white, the back of my porch and the house wall should work)
overhanging plants (shepard's hooks should give some height)
old bricks (I can get a few and will use them to give varying heights to the potted plants.

I have a few tall shutters to stand together as a outdoor screen to set against the bushes as a wall. I do need ideas for a "wall" to border the back of the courtyard as it faces the backyard.

Does anyone else have any suggestions on any ideas I may have missed?

Having grown up in New Orleans, I would suggest you add a humidifier to raise the humidity to about 95% and a heater so it will be hot and muggy. That will also help promote the mildew and mold you need to round out the picture. LOL

Actually some camelias and azaleas would be appropriate. I almost forgot, throw in a magnolia also.

2009-01-12 13:29:56 by msbettyboop40

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