It’s early September and the summer is over. Even if the weather is still hot in your area like it is in mine-the garden is showing that its winding up for this year. Even when everything looks overgrown and scraggly you can count on your Black-eyed Susan’s for their bright cheery flash of yellow.
Have you got a porch, deck or entranceway that could use dash of colour? I recommend snipping some Black-eyed Susan’s and grabbing some mason jars. I’ll show you what I mean.
After a week away we came home to the garden that looks like this. It’s supposed to look like an English Garden. Ha ha hahaha! Sorry if you fell off your chair laughing hard while looking at my “English Garden”.
It’s gotten overgrown with weeds and plants choking out other plants. But because of those cheery yellow flowers, I don’t despair with this jungle garden!
I know, I’m a terrible gardener aren’t I? Well there are only so many hours in the day…maybe next year…
You will need:
- Mason Jars (or any other jars -empty jam and pasta sauce jars- you might have)
- Garden Snips
- Flowers
- Water
I have had this collection of mason jars for a while in a cupboard….. that I think they belong to my mom. Over time she has shared a lot of pickles and chutneys that she preserved and I have been a naughty daughter and not returned her lovely jars.
So I went to my overgrown garden with some garden snips (sharp scissors will do) and clipped a bit of the Black-eyed Susan’s.
When company is coming this is a nice way for the kids to help roll out the red carpet-or rather the yellow carpet. Get them arranging some jars, add water and add flowers.
These could last for 2 weeks and if the Black-eyed Susan’s are still doing well you could cut more flowers and top these jars up with fresh cuttings.
It’s sad to see the summer close and flowers get scraggly-we need to face it, it’s the end of the season. 🙁
Using mason jars as vases is a great way to keep their cheerfulness and move that colour to other areas-indoors and outdoors.
Here is another Autumn Project!
Here are more Mason Jar Projects!
