Here it is, finally!

It's finished - almost, anyway.  The Sunflower Garden Centre is open for business at last.  As you approach over the gravelled front yard, you are welcomed by a wheelbarrow planted with a variety of flowers, a seat under the window offers rest for tired feet after wandering around the grounds choosing your plants, and the cheerful namesake sunflowers grace the little garden near the front door.


Welcome to Sunflower Garden Centre

If you happen to peek down the left side of the building as you approach, you might catch a glimpse of a little birdhouse tucked into the vine growing on the side wall.  If you are particularly fortunate, you might even see one of its inhabitants.

Upon entering a scene of mischief can't help but catch one's eye.  Toffee, the ginger cat, has chased a little mouse up onto the potting bench, knocking some pots down in the process and making a mess of broken pot and potting mix on the floor below.  The mouse has taken refuge in an overturned pot and Toffee is investigating.  Oh dear!

The shop itself is inviting with its cheerful sunflower wallpaper, daffodils in a pot on the potting bench and a sunflower garden clock on the wall.  Two more floral garden clocks for sale sit on a shelf on the left wall. 

On the right wall is a series of shelves, with bulk boxes of lawn seed under them, snail bait and fertilizer on the shelves above.  Further up is another shelf as yet unfilled, with pegs that will have gardening gloves hanging from them soon. 


The seed packets offer a wide variety of possibilities to beautify your garden


Beside those shelves is a rack of seed packets, each of which is 2.5mmx1.5mm and which took as long to make as the shop took to construct, or so it felt !   A large business-like watering can is sitting on the floor beside it.  I had a whole lot of tools to add as well, but there isn't room for them so I will keep them for other gardening scenes and for my greenhouse.  Here are more photos of the rear, with a ruler to show again just how tiny these Town Square buildings are.

At the rear of the building I have an extension as well, suggesting part of the yard.  Some bags of pine bark and potting mix on one side suggest that section of the premises.  On the right is a Flowerpot Man, which I've photographed and posted about before.  I just love him.  I was going to put a rack of flower seedling there but I think he's better.  So obviously the seedlings, plants, pots and all the rest are further down in the yard.

I am really happy with the way theSunflower Garden Centre  has turned out and I hope you like it  too!