A Rustic Garden Blog

The garden is a place to escape the toils of day to day urban life and get back to nature.  Garden gifts can enhance a person’s everyday life and allow them to escape to a more serene and natural setting. When choosing an addition to someone’s garden, there are several options to consider. Garden fountains add both visual and aural appeal, and come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Statuettes add the presence of life such as animals or fanciful creatures.

For a less expensive gift, in the spring and summer annual flowers add color to any garden and are affordable in bulk.  Perennials are a bit more expensive but can add more lasting beauty and provide a memory for the garden owner.

A Rustic Garden started marketing and selling old wooden ladders nearly ten years ago.  Slowly but surely people started seeing themselves with a ladder leaning in the corner with quilts displayed or leaning by the pool or shower with towels draped.  These antique ladders also make the perfect pot rack over an island in your kitchen.

Last fall A Rustic Garden sold and shipped two 4 rung ladders to every Pottery Barn in the U.S.  totaling over 400 ladders.  Other places you might have seen our old ladders have been Bloomingdales, Ralph Lauren, Levi Strauss, and Silver Jeans, among others.  From an upscale clothing store in Manhattan displaying silk ties to a bookshelf in your home, ladders can add a unique look anywhere.

We have a huge inventory of unique apple ladders and orchard ladders as well as any shape or size of old painting ladders.  We custom cut and paint any ladder, any where from 3′ tall to 20′ tall.  What ever size or style you have in mind we can usually find a ladder to fit your needs.

My wife and I had originally planned on looking for a new house last fall, but we all know what happened to the economy and, by extension, the housing market. We decided to wait for things to rebound a bit before putting our own home back on the market. In the meantime, we were left with plenty of opportunities to make improvements and boost the property value.

While I focused most of my efforts on the back lawn and garden area, my wife took command on the indoor improvements. It struck me that prospective buyers would be making snap judgments about the home, so I wanted to give them a positive first impression. I put up a tasteful wrought iron fence around the garden and commenced the landscaping job I had been planning for years. In the end, we liked the improvements so much that we opted to stick around this house for at least another year.