It was stuck in my head....

Does that ever happen to you?

You get an idea and 

It gets stuck in your head....

until you do something about it and 

then your happy and can move on!

Right?

 Well, I had the idea to make this old rusty metal birdbath

into a planter for

~Hens & Chicks~

Problem was there was only one place around here

that had Hens & Chicks that weren't in a 

strawberry pot and then they only had one variety.

So I bought it....

I wanted 

Hens & Chicks!!

 So today I met my hubby in the

Big City

for lunch and then off I went

to the 

Big Nursery for

~Hens & Chicks~

I found so many different varieties

so I had to control myself.

Did you know there are 72 different varieties?

That's what the tags say anyway!

 So I brought them home and planted them right away.

In this sunny, most of the day, location in our yard.

The tall green plants are called

~Obedient Plant~

Mine get white flowers on them

and come back every year and they spread

no special attention needed.

There are also daylilies, hosta and right in front

you see Sedum.

 Behind the Obedient Plant I planted

2 Cleome

1 White & 1 Purple

1 Oriental Poppy

and I finally put my

English Daisy 

in it's final resting place....

I think!

So I am excited about my little garden in this planter!

Above the rock I have

Creeping Thyme

next to that is

Aida Hens & Chicks

then the only variety I could find close to me was labeled

Mixed Variety....creative huh!

then something I had in my yard just for texture

then the 3 little ones with the red tips is

Sunset Hens & Chicks

then the cluster on the bottom of the rock is

Glabrum Hens & Chicks

I call it Spider Web because it has a white cottony webbing

in each cluster. And then in the very center is

Yolanda Hens & Chicks

A very pretty blue foliage with wine red bases.

So what do you think?

Do you have Hens & Chicks?

I can't wait to see what happens with this little garden.

I had fun planting it and adding a few little fun touches to

it also.  An old wire flower that lost it's stem, a little birdie that

fell off something I had once and the rock.  

Something to look at and bring the eye up off the ground.

Thanks for stopping by!