WeeWars | 04 Jun 2015 11:35 a.m. PST |
Start with a brick floor and a couple of work tables. It's not exactly spotless under those tables.
Add a few seed trays. And a garden sieve.
Place something akin to an ornamental cheese plant in a terracotta pot on the brick floor.
The undergrowth tends to attract the most unsavoury types.
Now all that's needed is a Victorian greenhouse.
The door hasn't seen much gentle use. Leave it open to let some air in.
Add some clutter in the form of a couple of boxes.
Put one box in a cold frame. The flowers must be tender plants – to use what is, in all probability, a horticultural term. Prop the lid open with a stick. They're tender but they still need air.
After all this horticultural exertion a garden bench is a must for a much needed break.
There's that suspicious character again. He's enough to put you off taking tea in the garden.
The greenhouse in situ.
In situ in the garden.
The garden sieve has been carelessly left lying around.
And the gardener has neglected some necessary weeding chores.
Or perhaps he's been scared off by that dangerous looking chap with the gun.
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Mute Bystander | 04 Jun 2015 11:50 a.m. PST |
Not my scale/size but very nice. Good work. |
morrigan | 04 Jun 2015 11:58 a.m. PST |
That looks terrific. Wonderful attention to detail. |
Editor in Chief Bill | 04 Jun 2015 12:00 p.m. PST |
bravo! |
mashrewba | 04 Jun 2015 12:13 p.m. PST |
For all the people who used to play with Britains Floral Garden stuff.
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ColCampbell | 04 Jun 2015 12:57 p.m. PST |
Excellently done, sirrah! Jim |
andysyk | 04 Jun 2015 1:56 p.m. PST |
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argsilverson | 04 Jun 2015 2:32 p.m. PST |
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kallman | 04 Jun 2015 2:39 p.m. PST |
Sublime! |
Alan Lauder | 04 Jun 2015 3:54 p.m. PST |
Excellent – just need a few bizzarre plants brought back from Andean adventures in the glasshouse, and you're in business. Seriously, though, your work is magnificent!. |
jpattern2 | 04 Jun 2015 4:34 p.m. PST |
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magokiron | 04 Jun 2015 5:11 p.m. PST |
Top work! Thanks for sharing. |
Doug em4miniatures | 05 Jun 2015 2:00 a.m. PST |
Beautiful work – well done. Show us some more. Doug |
WeeWars | 05 Jun 2015 2:38 a.m. PST |
just need a few bizarre plants brought back from Andean adventures in the glasshouse The gardener says the cheese plant is a Monstera deliciosa from Panama. However, the local constabulary are somewhat suspicious of the plants he's growing in the greenhouse. |
Blutarski | 05 Jun 2015 2:51 a.m. PST |
This has all the visual earmarks of an interesting start to a Sherlock Holmes adventure in 28mm. Don't leave us hanging! Great work. B |
WeeWars | 05 Jun 2015 2:59 a.m. PST |
We deny any knowledge of what the gardener's been burying at the bottom of the garden. |
capncarp | 05 Jun 2015 10:27 a.m. PST |
I don't care _what_ he's burying--the tomatoes have never been bigger! |
Lion in the Stars | 05 Jun 2015 4:43 p.m. PST |
Beautiful work! I don't care _what_ he's burying--the tomatoes have never been bigger! Yeah, but once the tomatoes reach ~400lbs, they seem to turn carnivorous! |
mashrewba | 06 Jun 2015 4:07 a.m. PST |
The return of the Giant Hogweed… |
Syr Hobbs Wargames | 06 Jun 2015 6:18 a.m. PST |
Outstanding and inspiring. Duane |
Andy ONeill | 06 Jun 2015 7:07 a.m. PST |
Very nice. Isn't that how the carnivorous plant got to be 400Lbs? Chomp. |
Durando | 06 Jun 2015 11:02 p.m. PST |
What happened to my tomato plants, cried the errant gardener……meee thinks it might have been the phanton rasberry blower of old London |
J Womack 94 | 08 Jun 2015 8:34 p.m. PST |
I know where you might be able to locate a Tree of Death, somewhere in the suburbia of Indiana. |
capncarp | 09 Jun 2015 4:14 p.m. PST |
"Feed me, Seymour…FEED ME NOW!!!" |
TheBeast | 10 Jun 2015 10:39 a.m. PST |
I just kept scrolling down, 'Yes.' 'Yes.' 'OH, yes.' Of course, ANY garden worth its salt now has Venerian Stench Suckers, given that fashion has declared Martian Flame Grass SO passé. Doug |
Pontius | 12 Jun 2015 2:48 a.m. PST |
Oh dear! I foresee a skirmish action between the armed shady character and the Flowerpot Men! No-one must touch their weed. |
WeeWars | 19 Jun 2015 4:05 a.m. PST |
The gardener has been extending the vegetable plot. He's always complaining about his aged knees. There's nothing he likes more than raised beds for managing his vegetables. To begin, a base for the vegetable plot.
And bases for the vegetable beds.
Eight pieces of lollipop stick were cut.
After some light sanding of the waxed surfaces, liquid shoe polish made a good job of highlighting the wood grain of the sticks and weathering them. After that, the ends were marked with a sharp point to represent nail holes.
Eight pieces of matchstick were cut and glued into the holes in the main base. At the same time, the bed bases were glued to the main base, giving further support to the matchsticks at their corners. The lollipop sticks were glued around the beds, making sure the nail holes were lined up with the matchstick uprights.
Wires were glued into the holes in one of the bed bases and a trellis structure was formed that supported a run of very thin wires. A thin layer of filler mixed with glue was smeared in the area between the beds and cut-out bricks lightly pressed into the paste, and then the rest of the ground was covered with paste and filler – almost giving the appearance of the garden as it looks in winter.
Cabbages grow so slowly. Paper craft roses were painted and planted instead, producing a healthy cabbage patch.
And paint and flock did much to bring the rest of the garden to life.
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TheBeast | 19 Jun 2015 6:50 a.m. PST |
Paper craft roses were painted and planted instead, producing a healthy cabbage patch. All so thrilling, and I focus on that as brilliant. ;->= Doug |
M C MonkeyDew | 09 Sep 2015 7:09 a.m. PST |
That is brilliant! I realize others have already said that but it just *is*. Well done! Bob |
TamsinP | 09 Sep 2015 8:43 a.m. PST |
Hmmm, think I saw one of these lurking amongst the azaleas:
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Sir Mumsy | 09 Sep 2015 9:13 a.m. PST |
WeeWars, well done! I really like your paper craft rose and trellis idea. Thank you for sharing. |
J Womack 94 | 14 Sep 2015 3:35 p.m. PST |
TheBEast: I was guilty of that as well. The roses for cabbages swap is absolutely brilliant. Guess I know what I need to get next time I pass by the craft shop. |