Vintage garden photos, National Geographic.
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Butterfly Girls, from Liebig’s Extract of Beef cards (which were first issued in 1872).
Leibig Company Trading Card
1890
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GARDEN WORK FOR AMATEURS ~ How to Grow Vegetable Marrows.
April 21, 1917, Price: One Penny
Bird Vivarium for Godey’s Lady’s Book, by W. E. Tucker (1800’s).
Scientific American: Volume 239, Issue 02 by Joe Kral on Flickr.
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The 1908 Gardening Class at Egham Hythe School, near Surrey, England.
*magic*
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Combined: Vertical and Horizontal Potting Station
Transform a vintage wooden ladder into an outdoor potting station, complete with work counters and shelf-rungs.
The work counter is created from scrap shelving and screwed into the rungs. When potting up container gardens, soil falls through the slats into a dresser-drawer that catches the soil.
photo: David Fenton
Bee Kind, Raw Honey, retro tin.
A vintage magazine rack from a thrift shop has been spray-painted a bright, cherry red and repurposed into a footed window box. A coconut husk liner is used as an insert to hold potted plants.
Tip: soaking coconut husk liners in a buck of water for several hours makes it much easier for “shaping” projects like this one.
