Whether your yard boasts plastic flamingos, old casks filled with flowers, bird houses, hummingbird feeders, or an old bathtub planter, consider how they're looking these days. Sometimes we get so accustomed to the view that we don't see items deteriorating in the elements.
This week I'm getting rid of a pink, faded watering can planter. It's still usable, and someone might want to repaint it and add it to her garden. It has been looking very weathered, so it's time to go. In a far away flower bed, a metal wind chime/pinwheel yard decoration was unnoticed until this spring when I was stuffing bag 56 with fall leaves. It was blue. Now it's an uneven purple color. My husband commented from afar one time, "What is that blue thing back there?" (He's not the lawn ornament-type.) I countered that it was given to me by a very sweet student. He knows that I give every gift a life…with limits. It is also being donated.
Walk through your yard soon. Are there any garden project implements lying around? Does a cracked, chipped flower pot need to be replaced or just trashed? Is that once-neon pink flamingo now a faded Pepto-Bismol color? Simplify the look of your landscape and only keep what is still beautiful or useful.
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