One of the great things about living in the Pacific Northwest is the abundance of {free} natural landscape materials. Although we live in suburbia, our property sits on a heavily wooded lot. Living amongst the pine trees does have its downfalls, shade and berry stealing chipmunks to name a few. However living in the woods has also been a blessing. Our kids have grown up climbing trees in their own backyard, building forts and have grown accustomed to deer, rabbits and even a family of black bears roaming through our neighborhood at any given time of the year. I can’t imagine living anywhere else other than the Pacific Northwest.
Especially if you are a flower gardener.
Moss. If you like to plant flower baskets, moss is plentiful here.
While clearing brush in the backyard yesterday I kept coming across patches of moss so I decided to put together a flower basket.
I decided on a budget of $10. I already had the basket, soil and all the free moss I could possibly want so I headed over to a local nursery to get the rest of my supplies.
1 Cyclamen plant with variegated leaves, 3 white pansies and 4 daffodil bulbs.
All for $9.99!
I simply lined the bottom of the basket with soil…
Carefully pulled the potted plants from their containers…
Stuffed the flowers into the basket…
Gathered a little more moss…
Tucked the additional moss around the flowers…
And… Viola!
1 flower basket filled with spring flowers. All for less than most people pay for lunch. I think it turned out beautiful if I do say so myself. What do you think?
Has the planting bug caught you yet?
Desi says
I would love to be able to grow flowers and moss like you can there but well I live in Idaho, hehe oh well. Beautiful flower basket, love cyclamen and daffodils.
Kim says
Hey Mavis,
Do you have any idea where the basket came from?
Glad I found you on here since leaving the Fabs.