In many rural areas, gardening is in the eye of the beholder. Many rural gardeners us all types of implements as gardening containers or ornaments. One of my favorite is the flower bed.
When my youngest daughter outgrew her toddler bed, I was reluctant to take the bed down. She was our baby and I hated for her to grow up. So, I placed the bed in my back garden to use as an ornament. It stayed there for many years until I came up with another idea for it. Why not make it a real bed again - a flower bed?!
I moved the toddler bed to the front garden and mulched the area under and around the bed to keep the weeds and ground cover in check. I put a then piece of plywood on the bed frame and then put concrete blocks on the bed frame with the holes up. From the side, the blocks look like a mattress on the bed. I then filled the the entire area with soil, block holes and all.
Next came the fun part, planting the bed. I used trailing ground cover around the edges and when it grows over the sides, it looks like a bed skirt. As the flowers grew and filled out, it looked like a crazy quilt on the bed.
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