Watering cans story

In Lunéville, near the pumpkin table, there was another table with old garden tools. A man had put old metal watering cans along it.

These cans were heavy even when they were empty. I remember, being a child, I was not able to carry one when it was full with water. I used not to fill it more than half. And I did the same with metal buckets when my grand-father asked me to go to the fountain to get water, or he had to come when I was ready to help me come back to his house.

Plastic cans are much better as far as the weight is concerned, but they can't stay empty in the middle of the garden on a windy day, they tend to "fly" away. Metal watering cans would stand or only fall at the same place.

Strangely I found metal watering cans again in Nancy on Wednesday. This is the first thing I saw when I arrived near Place Stanislas. They are part of the garden near all the flower beds.

I had not seen this sort of cans for quite a long time, or only in my woman's magazine, painted and decorated to keep inside a house. I wonder if I have missed an event, or a film, which would have made them fashionable again.

Or are we going back to the past ?

Comments

[Kay Lamb]

Had you not said; these shows were a commemoration of the Renascence times? Would they not then show how gardening was done at that time? My surprise is that so many watering cans have survived but then they were made of good stuff. LOL If your real lucky you may have the opportunity to own one.

[Maryse]

Sorry, the 30th anniversary !

[Maryse]

The subject is Renaissance and also the 10th anniversary of Place Stanislas as a classified site of UNESCO. I told you these watering cans were made of good stuff (LOL), the only problem was the weight. Apart from this, the garden is all made with flowers and vegetables, so something "normal".