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Tricycle Planted with Pansies

March 17, 2019 By Karen Creel

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Do you have a favorite flea market find that you always buy?   Vintage vases, old galvanized buckets, or gardening tools?  Well,  tricycles are my weakness. I currently have 4 or more in my shed, so on a pretty day last week I pulled this tricycle out and planted it with pansies.   Pansies are one of the first spring annuals at the nursery, and I knew they could withstand an inevitable cold snap in March.  I found this tricycle at our local thrift store for $4.00 and what caught my eye was the container on the back.   Perfect for holding flowers or succulents.

Since the container didn’t have any holes, I decided to plant the pansies in pots.

 

I added some moss to tuck it in, and added a little gnome to watch over the eggs.

A couple weeks later, the pansies have grown and filled up the container.

You should be able to buy little tricycles for planting for $10.00 or less.  If you buy one without a basket, it’s easy to wire one onto the handles.

 

Update Update Update

The little pansies have succumbed to the July  heat.  I thinned a bucket of succulents and found the perfect spot for them

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Happy Gardening,

Karen

 

 

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Gardenchick is a place for gardeners, flea market fanatics, lovers of the farmhouse look, and purveyors of all things rusty!

I’m not sure when my fascination with junk began, but gardening was in my blood from an early age.  I remember my grandmother could throw a few seeds out and have the prettiest flowers.  Sweet peas were rampant beside the front porch.  I can see her now, bent over pulling weeds, and I find myself doing the same thing anytime I’m in the yard.  My dad was raised on a large farm, and even though he moved away, and we always lived in the city, he had a garden.  He had me help him  plant a garden in May before he died in August.  So you can see, gardening just comes naturally to me.

I can’t explain the love of rusty and all things chippy, but I have dug through more barns and sheds than I would like to admit to bring out a rusty wagon or old chicken feeder.

So, I hope you will follow along, and we can learn a few things together.  I’ll be sharing gardening ideas, my flea market finds, and thrifty ways to repurpose.

 

 

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