Annual Junk Garden Tour with Me

Welcome to my annual junk garden tour 2022 edition!  I am starting the tour at my front patio area.(When you click on the bold Amazon, Old Sign Stencils or Dixie Belle Paint Company affiliate links you will be taken to the products I used for this project. If you order it does not change the price or service at all. As an Amazon Affiliate, Old Sign Stencils Affiliate or Dixie Belle Paint Affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases.)

This year’s front patio and covered patio were inspired by a sunflower stencil! I haven’t grown sunflowers for years but they are certainly happy and bright flowers, along with my calendulas and marigolds in the small garden HERE.

That big, plain wall of blue siding on the side of my house is a perfect area to decorate with rustic junk and container gardens!

This is my second season with a lantana topiary.  Mercardonia are in small buckets on the dolly.  I re-stenciled my barn wood sign/planter HERE.

As usual, my covered patio is decorated with several projects that I shared on my blog, including, Sunflower Farm Toolbox, Decorated Books, Stenciled Crate & Mailbox Planter, Galvanized Sunflower Sign, Feed & Seed Bench, and Mustard Little Chair.

Also Sunflower Cheese Box Table, and Sunflower Canisters.

And finally the Farmhouse Quilt Bench, Sunflower Camp Shovel, and Painted Spittoon Planter.

In the very front of my house, under the bay window, are Solomon’s Seal, Hostas, and a tub of double impatiens and a Swingtime Trailing Fuchsia.

The front border is finally in full bloom. The lilies are almost done blooming but he Shasta Daisies, Globe Thistles and Purple Coneflowers are in bloom. All three of these perennials are very cold hardy in my zone 3 garden.

I have diagrammed this planting bed with my flower choices in a blog post HERE.

I always love a stepladder in the garden for additional vertical interest!

The old wheelbarrow is planted with nicotiana (as usual) with a red cordyline spike in the larger tub, and mixed trailing verbena fill theother tub.

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Here is the garden border from the front. It has a kidney shape.

This shady spot on the front part of the side yard (in front of the deck) is planted with fuchsias, begonias and impatiens. We have had so much rain lately that many of the blossoms have been knocked off the plants, but they will rebloom soon.

Last year I found this old beadboard cabinet door and made it into a plant shelf with an attached metal garage tray.

This area under a spruce tree by the deck has a wrought iron peacock settee with a planter of angel wing begonias and two chamber pots of double fiesta red impatiens on the left.

This is the other side of the spruce tree.  More begonias, coleus, fuchsias, and impatiens, along with perennial hostas and sedum.

The chicken feeders and the funnel in the milk can have had some deer issues this season. They are growing back but have very little blooms.

The view along the side of the deck to the spruce tree.

Again, I have an assemblage of crates with my birdhouse collection on the front of the deck, along the railing. The bucket planters have two large red calliope geraniums in them.

Also on the deck, this little sawhorse with a bin of impatiens and a bucket of ivy geraniums.  An old bucket is overflowing with coleus on the right.

This gathering of junk in the corner of deck  has annual planters including nemesia, double calibrachoa, calliope geranium, red verbena and black eyed Susan vines.

Galvanized buckets line the bench on the deck, with lantana, annual phlox, double red calibrachoa, yellow lantanaand dipladina .

I assembled this deck vignette with ivy geraniums and coffee pots HERE.

I shared this back side wall of my house in an earlier post HERE.  The Herb Stepstool plants are filling in nicely.

The lucky sunrise rose lantana are perfect with this old junk.

Now on to the shed wall.  More lantana, ornamental oregano, wave petunia, and ivy geraniums.

The sink planter idea is working out well, and the little alyssum plants are still alive in the silverware portion of the dish drainer.  (Although they need watering often)

Still lots of farm tools on display around the shed along with my window screen and storm window decor with Old Sign Stencils

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In the very back, in a shady spot, are violet single and double impatiens and a violet calliope geranium.

My globe thistle and white phlox are coming into bloom next to this beautiful clematis.

I arranged some of my leftover garden junk for this last back bed, planted with red pentas, pansies, and wave and surfina petunias.I hope you enjoyed the tour!  Thanks for visiting.