There were various shallow metal dishes scattered about and a wooden wheelbarrow with its vegetable remains pungent upon the night air.

"When I'm depressed, I'm in the garden," said Ms. Vultaggio, fussing over a wooden wheelbarrow stuffed with colorful flower flats waiting to be planted.

Mr. Fitzgibbon was sitting on the old wooden wheelbarrow no one had bothered to move from the colourful wilderness on the other side of the drive.

As he did so, his gaze fell on two ragged men who were trundling a wooden wheelbarrow with a flat tire to the grave's edge.

Dotted around us were corrugated-iron outhouses, with piles of wooden barrels and boxes, and the occasional rotting wooden wheelbarrow.

Old photographs from czarist-era prison camps around Sakhalin Island show prisoners, gaunt and bearded, shackled with body irons so heavy they carried them in wooden wheelbarrows.

You can express yourself by planting in ancient wooden wheelbarrows or new ones made of the purpose.

Last summer, after an extensive Web search, I found that wooden wheelbarrows are being produced again after a break of 50 years or so.

I have wanted one like his ever since, partially for the nostalgia of it, but also because wooden wheelbarrows are as useful as they are handsome.

She also decked out Mr. Smalls's outdoor lanterns and an old wooden wheelbarrow with wildflowers.