Making Pumpkin Flower Pots, Decorating the Book Nook for Fall, Rose Garden Redesign, Celosia Wreath

Hi friends! I hope you're having a great day out there in your gardens. Today we're going to be decorating the book nook for fall, making some pumpkin floral pots for the outdoor dining room, making some dried flower miniature pumpkins for the flower stand, and also making a beautiful dried flower wreath for my front door. We also need to do a plant unboxing. Right as I was grabbing my camera I noticed that FedEx was here and now I see a big box of what I think is plants on our front porch. So lots to get done in today's video. Let's do the pumpkin floral pots first. They're so cute and easy and they only cost me about 50 cents. So if you have a pot and you have a small miniature pumpkin and you have just about any kind of plant material out there in your garden, you can make these cute little planters for free. Well this was such a fun, easy, and affordable craft. It's just great to use what you already have on hand and create something new. You know, I was thinking it would also be nice to add in some fresh flowers. We could just cut some fresh flowers, put them into water tubes, and then stick the water tubes into the arrangement. Now I did pick a few stems of Princess Charlene de Monaco. I think she's a little bit too big for these planters. Let me just stick her into the soil and see what it would look like. I think that's a little bit overpowering, but anyway I just thought that was really fun and I love creating decorations from the garden that cost next to nothing. Now let's go ahead and work over in the book nook together. Well friends, it's the next morning. I don't know what I was thinking trying to all those projects in one evening. I didn't even pick up the camera until about 6 p.m. yesterday, but let me show you how things are looking in the book nook so far. I think I'm actually going to remove some of these pumpkins and place them on our side porch because, I don't know, I think it might actually be overkill. Here's what I think I'm going to keep. I'm going to keep these two cute pumpkins here next to this lantana plant. I think I'll keep these two pumpkins next to our sunflower arrangement. This double stack next to the adirondack chair, that's really not doing it for me. I think I'll take those and put them on the front porch. I like the pumpkin snuck in in between these pots. I like the two pumpkins right here and even though this display of pumpkins with my watering can right next to the library looks sweet, I think I might lose that too. I think I would like to just see subtle hints of fall all throughout my garden versus an overabundance of pumpkins in one specific area. Anyway, let me know what you think about that. I'm actually going to take you over to the rose garden right now. Last night I did get to unbox all the liriope plants. Now I got these from Trees.com, which was previously known as Fast Growing Trees, and you know what I'm actually thinking I don't like the look of the liriope over here. I started measuring until it got pitch black last night, so here's what I'm thinking. I'm going to go back to how I had it during last week's garden walk and talk, where we just have the reminiscent roses in this garden, and I'm going to take all this liriope and put it all along here like this and liriope all along here like that and then reassess the rose garden situation. But before I tackle that and become a hot sweaty mess, let's go inside and make the dried flower mini pumpkins for the flower stand. All you need for this is some Spanish moss, a glue gun, and some dried flowers, and you can make these cute little creations for yourself or for someone you love. While I was making those mini dried flower pumpkins, I thought what would be really cool with these pumpkin flower pots is to hollow out the center and put a candle in the middle. Now I don't have any battery-operated votive candles at the moment, but I think I'll order some on Amazon and then carve out the center of these and stick a votive in each one. Don't you think that would be so cute? So far I've removed the logs, put cardboard down in this central path, and I think what I'm going to do now is actually scoot the mulch onto the pathway and go ahead and line the liriope plants on either side. I think that I like this a lot better, and I think it's a better use of the liriope plants, but I want to just sit with this for a while, so I'm going to leave all these plants in their pots and just think on this for a few days. I think either way, let's go back here, sorry about all the traffic noise, I think either way I don't want them here in the rose garden. It's just too cluttered, it's pushing everything too closely together. I think what I want to do is give these roses as much space as possible, get really good airflow around the plants, and really just focus in on the beauty of a simple and clean rose garden. So imagine all pink roses right here and that beautiful fountain right there. And maybe we don't add any bulbs to this garden, maybe we don't underplant them with geraniums. I don't know, it's something to think about. Anyway, now let's head back inside and make a wreath for my front door. I'm going to grab some celosia, some straw flower, and some more hydrangeas, and we'll get crafting again. I finished the dried flower wreath, then I took those extra pumpkins from the book nook and placed them in the pots on our side porch, but I think I need to say goodbye for the day because we just got a delivery, two more boxes of liriope. So I really need to get these plants unboxed and watered. I want to wish you a wonderful day out there in your gardens. Gracie says hi. Hi Grace, and we'll see you soon. Bye friends!