Comments on: I can’t believe I did this

By: Kathy Purdy

Kathy Purdy — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:28:24 +0000

I do, too. Last summer my daughter said, “I just can’t imagine that bird bath not being in the garden.” Sadly, despite being carried into the house each winter, it is starting to show some cracks. I don’t know how long it will remain in one piece. Don’t regret it one bit.

By: kelly

kelly — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:10:15 +0000

I can see why you were so torn- I love it! Sometimes you just have to go for it! (Not always, but sometimes!) I think you made a good investment.

By: My entry in the Garden Olympics.

My entry in the Garden Olympics. — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:03:07 +0000

[...] this birdbath was a triumph of aesthetic appreciation over miserly practicality. It was an agonizing decision, but the right one. It’s beautiful, and it inspires [...]

By: LYNN

LYNN — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:08:39 +0000

Beautiful! I too have a mosaic birdbath, as well as a ceramic cobalt blue and a couple made of concrete. (thankfully, I have a friend who works where they were sold and I got them at her cost!) I bring them in in the fall to my front porch and fill them w/gazing balls, greens, berries, other dried flowers and pinecones from the garden for Christmas and and the rest of the season. (One may even make it into the living area.) I also bring in the urns to the porch and add dried grasses, etc, to them. It gives me another whole “garden” to enjoy inside while the snow falls on our garden outside. (but I don’t have to worry about kids either!) Enjoy your birdbath guilt free, sometimes we just deserve it!!

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:14:54 +0000

That is a nice birdbath. i am also very fond of bird baths.

By: Shady Gardener

Shady Gardener — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:05:45 +0000

I love your birdbath! You will love having your birdbath. Your birds will love your birdbath (if they get the chance!) Congratulations!

I have a plain concrete one to which I want to add mosaic… perhaps I’ll print a copy of yours for inspiration!

By: A Few of My Favorite Things | Cold Climate Gardening

A Few of My Favorite Things | Cold Climate Gardening — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:37:02 +0000

[...] my favorite things, culled from images taken while I was “gone.”This is the bird bath I agonized over in February. Some readers requested I post a photo of it in situ. It is resting on the lid of the septic tank, [...]

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 16 May 2006 08:07:22 +0000

The mosaic tile bird bath turned out really nice.
I like the way you did the mosaic tiles under the bowl. Most people wouldn’t do that.
Regards-Steve

http://www.mosaictile-art.com

By: Gwen Holt

Gwen Holt — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 06:28:56 +0000

I enjoyed your article so very much, however could not read the last notes in boxes.
Your bird bath is exquisive and I love it too.

Gwen Holt
Master Gardener
Isle of Wight..Rescue, Va.

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 05:08:52 +0000

Hey, I just read through this blog and was so curious about the birdbath that I read all the way through, not allowing myself to see the birdbath until I’d finished reading. When I finally saw it I gasped. I sold the same brand of birdbath/ mosaic furniture at a discount retail store which recently went out of business. In my store the retail price was 149.00 so you can still consider yourself frugal. I, on the other hand, should be ashamed of myself. Since I worked in the store and had to look at all the wonderful mosaic items month after month I now own a mosaic planter, $50, a pedestal, $80, a finial, $30, a vase, $16, and lastly a complete barstool set for the patio I don’t yet own, $150. I am surrounded but in bliss.
p.s. I have left my mosaic pedestal outside for the past two years and have not had any tiles come off due to thermal expansion, though the winters here have been mild. It did survive an icestorm this season, so if you forget one night it should not damage the art at all.
—Keith