This sudden change made me realize how behind I was on gardening plans. We have almost half an acre here at the house with several beds. And I am trying to create gardens out of the mounds in the parking lot at my church. Last year at the church, I planted from root several red daylilies and started a butterfly garden (more about that later). I checked the plants on Sunday. They are starting to pop up out of the ground.
I remembered from last year that the deer and bunnies nibbled quite a few plants away. We need to stop that this year. So I started researching cloches.
Cloche is French for bell and that is basically what they are. Glass bells or domes that go over plants to protect them from the frost and allow planting earlier in the season - which is what we need here in Michigan. They were popular in the Victorian era.
20101129cloches.jpg - An image I picked up off Google.
Aren't they beautiful. I would love a garden full of these. What a wonderful romantic idea. Wonderful and expensive. They start at $26 each for a small one. Needless to say, these won't be protecting the plants in our church gardens. But I still need something. I thought of using netting - not very romantic and rather ugly.
Ultimately I found wire cloches at Gardeners Supply. Still expensive. However, this is an idea! One I can work with. I can't hand-blow glass, but I can cut chicken wire. I looked up some ideas on Pinterest.
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This is what I came up with.
While cloches were used for gardens, today they are used for interior decor. They are used for just about everything: to display collectibles, house candles, store jewelry, or as decor at weddings. Making your own chicken wire cloche is an inexpensive way to "get the look".
Grasser+Wire+2+Piece+Cloche+Set.jpg at Wayfair.com
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