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Claw Foot bathtub... water garden or land plants.....
« on: July 03, 2012, 07:53:04 AM »
for now I think I will stuff it with land plants.  I just love antiques

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Re: Claw Foot bathtub... water garden or land plants.....
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2012, 08:01:36 AM »
That looks lovely

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Re: Claw Foot bathtub... water garden or land plants.....
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2012, 08:05:54 AM »
Beautiful!
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Re: Claw Foot bathtub... water garden or land plants.....
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2012, 08:59:25 AM »
How did you come across the tub, and do you have it filled with soil all the way to the bottom? That would be a lot of soil!
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Re: Claw Foot bathtub... water garden or land plants.....
« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2012, 10:55:40 AM »
I fo8nd it at a rummage sale here. been wanting one for a long time...  I filled over half of it was stryofoam pieces from shipping boxes and just junk in the yard to get rid of.. hehehe :)

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Re: Claw Foot bathtub... water garden or land plants.....
« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2012, 11:27:27 AM »
Looks Great Tink! I see you still have the magic touch out side! I love antiques too!
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Re: Claw Foot bathtub... water garden or land plants.....
« Reply #6 on: July 04, 2012, 04:56:57 AM »

that is nice a lush looking the lotus look great too.

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Re: Claw Foot bathtub... water garden or land plants.....
« Reply #7 on: July 04, 2012, 05:01:30 AM »
I love it

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Re: Claw Foot bathtub... water garden or land plants.....
« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2012, 09:28:05 PM »
What a fabulous find and you filled it beautifully!  How did you ever get it home!?!  My DH would have said "NO!" if I even said I wanted to go a garage sale!

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Re: Claw Foot bathtub... water garden or land plants.....
« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2012, 09:16:52 AM »
It looks great.   I have three of them, but one of them doesn't have feet.   My husband let a scrapper come and haul off some old metal and stuff around the barn....I said, "Make sure he doesn't take my tub."   Well, he didn't take the tub....he took the feet for it. >:(-   Boy, I was steamed at my husband for not watching him closer.    We bought one for the old house that we are remodeling.   It has lion paw feet.   I had never seen one like that before.   Did you know that they are dated on the bottom of the tub?   At least every one I've seen is dated.   The lion paw one is dated July 19, 1895.

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Re: Claw Foot bathtub... water garden or land plants.....
« Reply #10 on: July 14, 2012, 01:44:43 PM »
lol oh no.. I will have to empty mine just to see how old it is :)

I got it home on a smaller trailer but they said they moved it in a truck and a van before.

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Re: Claw Foot bathtub... water garden or land plants.....
« Reply #11 on: July 14, 2012, 03:08:32 PM »
Looks great, Tink.

 

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