Tag: garden seat

Still useful after all these years

The anthuriums potted up and refreshed in their new pots.

I am keeping the old garden seat. I bought it for Mum a few decades ago when she was still living in the old house. It’s perfectly placed to put the clothes basket and pegs on when I’m hanging out the washing – and bringing it in. It’s also useful as a potting bench.

There’s an even older, broken bench lurking at the back of the garden. It’s made of wrought iron and timber, and is slowly rotting away in the undergrowth with acanthus and a climbing rose pushing through it.

This area is what I call my ‘woodland garden’, tiny as it is, with rocks and rotting logs and hellebores planted on the graves of my former cats, Holly and Skipper.

Take a seat – 20% off

My sister and I went to the garden centre with a couple of small specific items in mind. I came home with a new garden seat. (A slight exaggeration; my sister and my nephew collected the seat later in their trailer and delivered it to my house.)

My specific item was some potting mix to re-pot two anthuriums which were looking a bit tired. I took photos of them to show the garden centre experts in case they had some advice.

The plant on the left is bigger than the other
One has dry soil, the other seems to stay quite damp

As we walked in I noticed large signs advertising 20% off everything in store. I eventually found my potting mix and a pack of lettuce plants as well. Then my sister met someone she knew and began a long conversation. This gave me time to look around. That’s how I found the seat. It’s been in the back of my mind to look for a new garden seat as the old one has begun to fall apart. Added to my existing patio furniture, the new seat creates a friendly, conversational vibe.

As for re-potting of the anthuriums, it turns out I didn’t read the instructions closely enough. Pots of at least 200mm are required, it seems. Sounds like another trip to the garden centre. Yippee!