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Toadstools !!!

louise1

By louise1

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This is especially for Spritz :-)))
She was so interested in the wooden carved toadstool that i bought that i’ve got a collection of pictures here.

I bought it at my local garden centre, where there is quite a selection of tall aswell as short ones.
The toadstool is 9" high and 17" at the widest part.
The wood is not treated at all, not stained – it’s just ‘raw’.
It’ll wear with the weather and time, and naturally wear down.
It’s a wonderfully tactile object, but then i do love wood ! The textures just begged to be touched !!!

I have it in the back garden, in the top left hand corner.
It’s a great seat for the cats too !

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Not seen one these before lovely,like the shape and the markings. Tactile things in the garden are nice do you know what the wood is? Do you think it will need teak oil occasionally to look after it?

18 Nov, 2009

 

I completely forgot to ask what type it was Drc but the guy who makes them uses all kinds of wood.
I was told that i could use not teak but linseed oil .... you use that if you want to keep the colour 'up' !
I think i prefer to let it age naturally though !

They've been available in this area for a few years now and this type here are made in the Brecon Beacons.

18 Nov, 2009

 

That is lovely Louise....looks like its been there for years :)

18 Nov, 2009

 

I think these look great Louise & id love 4/5 in my garden :)

18 Nov, 2009

 

I love it Louise! Will you take more photo's when it has aged a while? Pleeeeeease. Lol

18 Nov, 2009

 

Haha, Louise - very funny!

Now - where's Maddie? You told me she was sitting on the top!

Actually, now you've shown me..............hmmmmmmmmmmm.............................I like it!

:-)))))

18 Nov, 2009

 

Just lovely Louise would love some of these myself agree with you just let Mother nature take it`s course, and they will age beautifully:~)))

18 Nov, 2009

 

Oh great.......

18 Nov, 2009

 

Like you Louise I love wood, the feel, the smell, the markings, lovely very garden friendly ornament. WOOD love one myself!!! sorry.....lol

18 Nov, 2009

 

Thanks everyone :-)))

I just love my toadstool and so do the cats !!!!
I'll try and get a photo of them on it, in due course !

18 Nov, 2009

mad
Mad
 

Lovely Louise. I like the age rings too. They are a really nice garden ornament and natural too and although the cats will sit on them, I'm sure when no-one is about the fairies will dance round it and climb up to sit on it too.

18 Nov, 2009

 

We have a local craft market here in Newcastle and one of their stalls is all wooden items I cant recall toadstools but I did buy a mouse and a snowman for the 25th of dec.Next time I go I will have a look as I want a christmas tree.

18 Nov, 2009

 

Lovely they will blend into the foilage beautiful and I would also like to see some pictures as it begins to age. ;o)

18 Nov, 2009

 

Love it no i've not seen these before either.

18 Nov, 2009

 

Mmmm ceps I love em!!! very realistic Louise nice thing to have in the garden!

18 Nov, 2009

 

For some reason I'd visualised a small toadstool thing, bit like one of those things people used to put in socks for darning (my grandma had one), but this is fab, a nice sculptural piece. Looks big enough to perch on yourself, Louise.

18 Nov, 2009

 

LOL, it is indeed Bamboo ;-)
Maybe someone will photograph me there with my fishing rod when the weathers better ;-)

18 Nov, 2009

 

Oh this is LOVELY! Generally I'm not a lover of garden ornamentation, but I think this is fab. I love staddle-stones, but only in places where they were originally used, and old water troughs, things like that. I'd love a couple of these....I wonder how hard they are to make....hhmm...now there's a thought! Is it carved from one block of wood, or is the base attached to the 'cap'?????

;-)
xxx

18 Nov, 2009

 

Lovely one Louise, wonnnnnnnnnnnt one but not yet!!!!!!!

18 Nov, 2009

 

Ooooo....I love it. :o)

18 Nov, 2009

 

B, all i can tell you is that it comes as one piece - not in two parts, really don't know if it's all the same piece though :-/

18 Nov, 2009

 

I'm thinking Christmas...I'm thinking I WANT one!!! Or two...maybe three.....

;-)
xxx

18 Nov, 2009

 

That's lovely Louise :o)

18 Nov, 2009

 

I will bravely travel up the M5 and take your photo - but ONLY if you wear a red and green suit and a pointy hat with a bell on it, as well as holding the fishing rod! Deal???

18 Nov, 2009

 

I love it :)))))

19 Nov, 2009

 

Thanks everyone, i'm glad you like my toadstool, it looks great in its new home and the cats like it too - a great look-out !
:-)))

Spritz, it's a deal !
I'll be keeping my eye on it though and making sure it's still there after you've left here ;-)

Time to confess now ...... Spritz doesn't like garden ornaments and neither do i much and when i told her of my new Toadstool she thought i'd lost the plot !!!

19 Nov, 2009

 

I'd sort of guessed that, Louise! But this is a piece of garden sculpture, not a garden ornament in the usual sense. I know we all get sniffy about those small little rabbits, hedgehogs, mice, whatever made out of stone, but I do remember as a small child passing a garden on the way to my grandparents which had a selection in it, and my sister and I loved it, always wanted to walk that way. They were all stone, though, no plastic gnomes! But it gave us hours of pleasure as children.

19 Nov, 2009

 

Aha !
Us members know each other quite well, don't we ? !
;-)))

19 Nov, 2009

 

Why didn't you tell everyone about my 5' tall gnome with the mechanical solar-powered windmill and illuminated water feature, Louise? LOL.

19 Nov, 2009

 

Windmill? I thought it had a fishing rod that moved up and down, oh well, obviously got that wrong then, Spritz;-)))

19 Nov, 2009

 

Didn't want folks to think you were boasting Spritz ;-)

19 Nov, 2009

 

I am, Louise! I'm exceptionally proud of him. My husband made him for me....LOL. Can't think why Bamboo thought it was a fishing rod - it's WINDY here! Obviously a windmill is required!

19 Nov, 2009

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