Horseshoes and Succulents

About five years ago, I made this little flower bed into a little succulent garden as it gets full sun all day long. The center is three old metal wheels with sedums and moss roses planted in between the wheel spokes. Pea gravel surrounds the wheels. As the years have gone by, I have let moss rose seeds pop up wherever, and the sedums roam outside the wheels too.


Besides the three rusty wheels and succulents, of course there is fun, rusty, garden art (junk) too.

The succulent bed is edged with a manufactured cement scallop. None of the sedum are currently in bloom but a few moss roses are open.

The vintage Double Ringer metal horseshoes are a new garage find this year for $2. There were no stakes, but I improvised with a $2 consignment store purchase of a rusty stake (maybe a tool of some kind).

These were the pulleys and parts from my Grandpa's old knife sharpening set up. I just blogged about the pulleys in my recent post "Free Junk".

This is a metal, but not vintage, snail that I picked up at a surplus shop for $11 a couple years ago.

Believe it or not, the bird was originally a dollar store, metal, cheaply painted bird/yard ornament that weathered and rusted nicely from the elements. I saw it at my Mom's house and wanted to take it home.

An interesting little succulent/junk bed. Not gorgeous, just interesting.

Have I inspired you yet to decorate your gardens with junk?