Just found the bricked pond and would love to see a close up of the copper fountain system you made, pleassssse.
Anyone else wanting to have a peek at the distant shot and read the copper works description, here it is -
Terry's Brick Pond

If you don't care to post the pic, I can remove this thread (and pout really big).

I suppose I better confess to all, or it starts to look bad, I fouled up with the flower heads, they kept getting clogged up so in the end I cut them off. I intend to redo them later, but with the petals outside the pipe not inside.
This is making me realise how little garden art I have out there.

I see a lot of Garden art terry.... You have a wonderful pond and back yard!!!

O. K. Maggie, here we go....
No he's not real, just varnished concrete.

Bet this one looks familiar to you Texans

Story goes with the next one, it lives close to my little bridge over the cascade into the newt pond. When the Shy Maiden statue had to be carried over the bridge (remember she is a heavy girl), I slipped and kicked the duck's head off. Just managed to save it with impact adhesive, can't even see the join.

Next up another of the women in my life, this time Pandora, I think the slugs came out of her box.

This next one I did make, can you tell :-), plant stand outside the kitchen window, well weathered is how I would describe it, if I were an Estate Agent. It hides the refuse bin and was used originally to display my Auriculas. This year it's Nasturtiums, if we ever get any sunshine.

Last one, my Bonsai Japanese White Pine, grown from a seed and never been trained, just grew into this shape. It is about 15 years old, see they don't have to be hundreds of years old, or cost a fortune.

You can stop pouting now Maggie :-)

How Wonderful - a grown woman pouting is not a pretty site !
What treasures! I knew I sussed some goodies lurking in the shadows! The first thing that strikes me is how beautiful everything ages with subtle patina in your kind of weather - the trade off for lack of sun ;-). There are all those recipes out there for speeding up lichen and moss growths on surfaces - but its a lost cause in our heat, unless you want to build a shaded humidor around an object. I'm too lazy to post an example pic - so here's link to a page showing one of the urns that have lived here nearly 10 years - still looking shiny-new. And yes, I have tried rubbing moss in the cracks during rainy spells, then fed it with milk, buttermilk, beer,,, so have now decided it is 'charming' how they match the limestone steps as tho they are a part of it. I call it healthy-resignation!
The dark depths on my urn are alas, only shadow!
Very Dry Urn
Also, I had noticed the bonsai on your page, with great interest and had wanted to ask about that. Great! I'll be right over with my Japanese shears ;-)

We only really started to get litchens about twenty years ago, before that the air was too polluted from industry for them. The dark on Pandora is actually an applied coating, but it was on when she came, so I can't tell you what it is.

Terry, all gorgeous Art. I really love the maiden. What a soft spirit she has. Now, I'm almost motivated to get the camera out and show mine....yeah, yeah, I know...broken promises. Hey, at least I'm on the forum for a change. I've missed too much and sorry to have been gone. We're back on-line until the carpet tear out begins...maybe a couple of weeks.

I missed you Gail !!!

Terry, just beautiful. I'm crazy about every photo except the rattlesnake....for obvious reasons. Maybe I'll tell my "rattlesnake in the bathroom" story in my own section. The turtle is incredibly life-like. The real ones are doing their annual suicidal compulsive road-crossing thing now. My son and I always stop when we see one (except on the interstate) and pick it up and carry it across the road. We get so sad when we see them squashed. And doesn't "refuse bin" sound so much nicer than "garbage can" or "dumpster?" Pandora is beautiful, but thank goodness you didn't get Medusa, if Pandora brought slugs! The bonsai is beautiful. What patience you must have. Thanx so much for sharing with us.

I put refuse bin because that is the latest term for them over here, they always used to be called dustbins, came from the use of them for disposing of ash and dust from the coal fires.
One of our biggest pet mistakes was buying two box turtles, fed them by the book, provided water for bathing, heated their housing to the specified temperature. Even with all that they rapidly deteriorated and were in danger of costing us a fortune in vets fees, so we ended up giving them to the vet who specialised in tortoises. The concrete one seems to be doing fine though.

Everyone I know over there has always just called it "the bin" and my relatives are intriqued with our "trash" term. I'm glad to have folks to discuss these important things with ;-).

That was neat to see your nasturtiums in the very same size and shape Italian pots as some of mine! Which reminds me - you and Christine have the very same made-in-Italy wellies as I too, right? It's a smaller world every day.

Would it be unkind to ask what happened to your auriculas Terry? I was so pleased to see you grew them on a traditional staging! I'm going to post one of the pics you sent me from the Harrogate Flower Show, since I have such a passion for these sweet little things.

The dreaded mealy bugs got them Maggie, remember, I still have a few but they are scattered around the garden. Good to see I'm not the only one with a failing memory, must an age thing :-)

Those "are" pretty. Now I understand the fascination. We don't generally have mealy bugs outside here, Terry. They are mostly a greenhouse or houseplant curse.

I thought they were here Carolyn till I got the Auriculas. They seemed to die down in winter, but came back in the spring.

Age thing?!?! Ok you Young Whippersnapper.
Can you get orange oil, Diatomaceous earth or parasitic wasps over there?

Not sure about the orange oil, Maggie, but yes to the rest. Young Whippersnapper, I like it, wish it were true....Young as you feel, feel like orange peel.

Terry I see that you have my tortise. Give him back! My neighbour gave me exactly the same ornament a couple of years ago and I have to admit that I was a little perplexed as to why she though that I might like it. Anyway, I put him down in the nursery area and even though I knew he was there he still managed to surprise me a few times when I sort of caught a glimpse of him out of the corner of my eye. Now I am quite fond of him. However I can't say the same for the blue pottery snails that my Sister-in-Law bought me at Christmas!!

I have some little green ceramic frogs that often get overgrown in a bed. And EVERYtime I come across them while weeding, they scare the life out of me too Nicola!
Blue snails? ... now that's beyond scary,,, going into really-bad kitsch!!! Feel free to show us a pic!