Bricked Up

As noted in a relatively recent post, my husband replaced the post for our mailbox. It looked so nice that I wanted to jazz it up even more. A number of homes in the area have little stone circles around their mailbox posts filled with plants, and I think they look lovely. However, I did not want to spend the money on large stones, so I decided to recycle the bricks that we were in theory using to provide extra support for the garden fence. We never finished laying them anyway.

This project took longer than I would have liked because the soil around the mailbox post was nowhere near level. Being my father's daughter, I used an level and an angle-measuring tool (like a protractor but swankier) to help get things the way I wanted. Most of the time was spent getting the nine-brick first layer level, and then I just laid bricks on top.

Westley was not allowed to help.

He was displeased with this arrangement.

Then I went to the local garden store, bought some asters and snow-in-summer. They met three important criteria: a) deer don't like them (unlike my poor yellow mums). b) they have pretty foliage, and c) they flower nicely in the summer and fall (purple and gold asters, and white snow-in-summer). We already had leftover potting soil, so it was just a matter of filling in the planter.

Taa-daa!  We'll see how it holds up,
but I like the look.  It's cute!