Thank you for all your visits, comments, shares and Pins in 2017. I’m so honored you find the time to visit my little blog and Potting Shed!
I’m bringing you a little flower therapy on a January day!
Here’s look back at how I potted, puttered, played around the Potting Shed in 2017, with highlights from the months, seasons and holidays. Click on the links if you’d like to revisit the complete post for details and sources.
Woodland Table with Birds and Winter Nesting
Winter Fauna plates, tree slice chargers and pine cones with greenery add a woodland touch and nesting details
Potting Shed Featured in She Sheds: A Room of Your Own
My Potting Shed was honored to be included in She Sheds: A Room of Your Own, by Erika Kotite, published by Cool Springs Press/Quarto Publishing Group. You can find “her” in the “Sheds for Gardeners” chapter.
Valentine Greetings with Transferware and Flowers
Flower and dish fun with some vintage-inspired Valentine greetings
Birds, Nests, Butterflies and Teacups
Table inspiration from flowers, flatware, butterflies, teapot and teacups with the French graphics
A New Pair of Chippy Shutters and Camellias
‘New-to-me’ chippy green shutters frame a window shelf and shutter slats providing a surface for hanging
Chalking it Up: Happy Spring Blooms
Chalkboard door and vintage metal picnic basket planted with spring bulbs
Tabletop Gardening with Bunnies and Spring Bulbs
Gardening at the table with a moss runner, garden tools, bunnies and spring bulbs
Growing a Garden Hose Wreath with Blooming Wellies
A garden hose wreath to welcome spring and gardening season on my Potting Shed door. Wellies or rainboots function as vases to hold a bouquet!
The Chain Gang
Collection of galvanized watering cans hung on a chain
The Earth Laughs in Flowers: Happy Earth Day
A celebration of Earth Day with flowers, seeds and favorite garden quotes
Le Jardin Botanique and Bunnies
Inspiration from a French inspired botanical garden plaque and bunnies
Garden Rules
Garden Rules Around the Potting Shed
Window Dressing for the Potting Shed: Board and Batten Shutters DIY
Building board and batten shutters was an affordable and easy project that you can tackle in a weekend, with the painting most time-consuming part.
Tabletop Nesting
Nesting season and a little tabletop dining and seed buffet
Majolica and Hydrangeas
Endless Summer Hydrangeas, bunnies and birds
Wheelbarrow Makeover
Wheelbarrow rehab and new paint
Morning Glory Vine Bottle Tree
A bottle tree as a trellis for Morning Glory
Garden Blooms Around the Potting Shed
Summer annuals, containers and perennials
The Bees Knees Tablescape
Plates, table runner and flatware buzzing with bees! Bee skeps are blooming with Black-eyed Susan for a little garden whimsy.
Fun and Functional Garden DIY: Blooming Door Knob Hose Guards
Repurposed doorknobs with flower petals as decorative hose guards
Woodland Table and Vignette
Woodland tabletop and dish fun inspired from a Blue Ridge getaway
“Growing” Flowers and Summer Blooms
Bottle tree blooms, Limelight Hydrangeas and watering can flowers
The Hum of Bees is the Voice of the Garden
Chalking it up to a favorite quote and bees at work in the garden
Easy 5-Minute Potting Shed Door Update for Summer
A gardening apron and hat make for a quick change and easy summer door decor
More in the Garden Grows Than What the Gardener Sows
Sunflowers, Morning Glory, Purple Passion Flower vine and Milkweed volunteers
Ladder Trellis and Favorite Summer Vine
Favorite summer annual and vine and ladder as a trellis
Stalking Monarch Butterflies and September Garden Blooms
Bicycle planter and a fun distinction and an easy way to identify male from female monarchs
Puttering Around the Potting Shed
Tole, roses and candle sconces repurposed as vases
Chalking it Up to Fall and Garden Blooms
Chalkboard Door pumpkins, mums and fall garden flowers
Hello Autumn Wreath and a Wheelbarrow of Pumpkins
A wheelbarrow imitates a plate and a broken placemat provides fall wreath inspiration
Fall Nesting with Brown Transferware and Hydrangeas
A collection of brown transferware and Limelight hydrangeas in their fall metamorphosis
A Rafter of Turkeys and Thanksgiving Vignette
Turkey plates beyond the table and as decorative wreath and planter accents
Christmas Greenery Around the Potting Shed
Decking the halls around the Potting Shed with boughs of cedar, juniper, cypress and pine
Sprucing Up the Window Boxes with Christmas Greenery
Easy and ‘cheater method’ to fill the window boxes with holiday greenery
“Putting the ‘she’ in a gardening shed means adding a little something extra— a comfortable place to sit, a few decorative touches, or maybe collections to celebrate the art of gardening.” ~ Erika Kotite, She Sheds: A Room of Your Own
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Metamorphosis Monday
Thank you so much for this look back through 2017….all lovely…and inspirational. I am looking forward to seeing what ‘jewels’ you come up with through 2018…
Your beautiful, flower filled post is just what I needed to brighten up a cold, dreary, depressing January day!
Thank you so much!!!! Looking forward to your 2018 posts too.
This is by far one of my favorite blogs. I always look forward to seeing your gorgeous posts. Thanks for sharing your talent with all of us. You are an inspiration. I also love seeing “your girls” featured, they are adorable.
As always, it was a most beautiful year at the potting shed and gardens!!! You brighten our day and put a smile on our face!!! I open your posts saying, “now what beautiful thing is Mary bringing to us today?!!” Here’s to another beautiful year of gorgeous inspiration!
Your pictures always bring such happiness to my morning 🌸
Oh thank you for sharing your potting shed through the seasons … I so love your potting shed
A beautiful reminder of what’s to come. Loving Winter but ….hurry Spring!
Here! Here! They are so joyful – especially on a rainy January day.
Mary, these beautiful pics brought a BIG smile to me with thoughts of warm and sunny times to come. Thank you!
*Sigh* I never tire of seeing your pretty potting shed Mary, she exudes so much personality with every dress up, every tablescape and every season! Are you exhausted just looking back at all the gardening, toting, staging and creating you did over one short year?? It’s all too fabulous!!! And spring is hopefully not too far away…
Jenna
That was truly a feast for my eyes. I live in Gilbert, AZ and we just can’t grow those beautiful flowers here. All the photos were just lovely!!!
Mary, what beauty on this gray and dreary day! Your potting shed is always perfectly dressed for each month and season! This is a fabulous look back!
Thank you for the beauty you bring into the world.
This put a little spring in my step this dreary January day!! franki
I look forward to seeing each of your post. Thanks for sharing with us.
Your blog is the best. It makes me want a potting shed but that is not something I can create in the 38 house community where I live. So I enjoy yours so much. I look forward to each of your 2018 blogs. Happy January!
It’s fun to be reminded of all the pretty projects around your cute little shed. I love the watering can trellis…I love everything you do in and around your shed. Shed posts are always so much fun!
Funny how eagerly we await each new season. Very pretty Mary, and I do understand a lot of work too. Thank you for all you do:@)
I am a new follower, and I am enchanted! Love your posts. Do you adopt? 😉
What a joy to look back on all the fun, creativity and inspiration that little green shed gives to all of us! Had so much fun making the garden hose wreath and filling my rubber garden boots with flowers to welcome spring. My shed had a bit of a transformation too as I was able to add some wicker furniture to her porch and was excited to change out a stationary window to a vintage beautiful beveled window that now opens! My heart sings with happiness. So looking foward to more fun and creative gardening with you and that special shed Mary, thanks for the great adventure!
Thanks so much for your sweet comments Cyndi. Your shed is adorable and how great that you have a window that opens! I’ll be envious in July when mine are shut and it’s sweltering. ;)
If you did no other posting but these from the potting shed, I could be sustained. Your brilliant combinations of table settings with the love of gardening – pure heaven for me! What a great review of the past year. I have referred back to more than one of these posts in the past year a number of times, I love them that much.
Thank you for the eye candy! Your blog is always a treat to visit! Have a good weekend!
Be Still my Heart! I Love your posts. I am in Heaven. This is my first time visiting and I have never seen so many BEAUTIFUL arrangements. I am definitely following you blog today! Bonnie
Be Still my Heart! I Love your posts. I am in Heaven. This is my first time visiting and I have never seen so many BEAUTIFUL arrangements. I am definitely following you blog today! Bonnie