
Discover how to create gardens like this one at my lectures next week at the San Francisco Garden Show and later on at the Epcot International Garden and Flower Festival at Disneyworld, Florida. In this garden I used my old wood cook stove as a central table for this sideyard garden screened from neighbor’s RV with cheap reed fencing. Antique jars and bottles came from garage sales for no more than $1 each. I covered an old tin tea kettle with mosaic and added red glass shards to the heart. In the big pot are stems cut from palm leaves pruned from front yard trees. Though I did not design this composition, the beauty evolved out of necessity, proving this indeed is the mother of invention.