{"id":1472,"date":"2010-04-26T15:45:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T22:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2025-05-23T14:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T21:43:10","slug":"looking-for-plant-sales-and-other-treasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/looking-for-plant-sales-and-other-treasures","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Plant Sales and Other Treasures"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Saturday found us getting up late and dithering about whether or not the weather would hold out for garage sailing. But I found an ad for a plant sale or two so off we went. And you really couldn’t miss this sign.<\/p>\n

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And although I loved the way they’d planted things up in these lovely red cups, we didn’t find anything we really needed at this one. Although we did spend a few minutes trying to justify a couple of things.<\/p>\n

But that’s not to say we didn’t find anything. I found these Cleome starts at a flea market later<\/p>\n

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and Bill found this Firetail at another sale. Ok it had a latin name on the tag too but I can’t make it out. The bloom is a sort of thistle like flower in magenta.<\/p>\n

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As you can see, Bill has been very efficient and planted his find already, right next to the Cardoon. I, on the other hand haven’t got around to quite a few things that need planting. But I will, I will…..<\/p>\n

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Couldn’t resist a photo of the seller’s cat sitting in the sunlight.<\/p>\n

The next garage sale was overlooking the ocean on Dallas Road and I had to catch a photo of the very ocean flavoured fence of driftwood. I might borrow this idea, I like it so much.<\/p>\n

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Then, as we made our way to another sale we passed Beacon Hill Park and practically screeched to a stop for this photo. Lovely, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

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Here’s a close up to see what produced this car stopping scene.<\/p>\n

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Then on to have lunch in front of this pond where we could enjoy not only the view of the pond with it’s geese but a glimpse of the ocean beyond.<\/p>\n

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The find for the day were these pillows, especially this one with the Japanese scene. Love it and I may even have to totally redo the decor in the living room to accommodate it. There was another good find but I’ll have to keep it secret for now, it’s going to be birthday present for Hart and I don’t want him to see it yet.<\/p>\n

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