Treasures From Canton

Between the two of us, my friend and I filled up her whole SUV with treasures from our trip to the Canton Trade Days.  Most of my purchases were for outdoors.  They have great plant/flower vendors this time of year with great prices and beautiful varieties.

These gorgeous double petunias have already found the perfect spot in my fence boxes:

Edited to add: these petunias are actually purple.  It seems they are coming across as blue on some computer monitors (including mine).  It is so hard to get an accurate photo of flower colors!

I should have gotten one more of these potato vine plants.  At $6.00 each, they were half the price of the ones at a local nursery.  I also got the stand for $15.00.

I got two of these Snow on the Mountain (also known as Bishop’s Weed) to hang in my carport.  They should get a lot bigger.

A sparkly little jeweled fleur de lis iron stake found a home in my hydrangeas:

And a cute little air plant and hand painted rock make a unique little display on the lower shelf of a plant stand:

We were seeing these old chairs painted up in fun colors and used as plant stands in several booths:

But at $30-$40 each, I knew I could find something cheaper, and I did! I spotted this cute yellow chair for $5: 

I haven’t even cleaned it up yet, I just plopped a plant on it and called it a day.  I was originally wanting to put it in my front flower bed, but I really like it here by the back door:

One booth was selling shutters for $1 a piece, so I snagged a 2-pack of small ones to paint up and use somehow, maybe as a display:   

And finally, this shabby tin frame:

Aside from a couple other small purchases, that was my haul!  Even if you don’t buy a lot, it’s still fun to look and dig for “treasure”!

I’ll be linking up this post to Outdoor Wednesday at A Southern Daydreamer.