Window box for Fall

This look is great. Classy and simple. A is black mondo grass. B are little baby boo pumpkins, C are large white pumpkins...also known as lumina, D is just your run of the mill bittersweet. But be careful with bittersweet it can reseed and you could start finding it growing everywhere under your windowbox next year. Try finding artificial bittersweet instead.

Sorry it's been so long

Sorry it's been so long since my last post. Really have no excuse. I guess that's how I get when we're busy...I kind of hide from the world. My Mother would call me " savage" in french which I took as meaning "unsociable". I guess that's what happens when you work as much as we do. Still we are just as much in the people business as much as in the plant business.

We're now into Fall with the nights getting cooler. Love this time of year. I know there are some that don't like Fall because it means the end of Summer, but I find it's a much more peaceful time of year.

Above is a picture of plectrantus. This one was given to me by one of our good customers~ Lisa. It was just a little plant at the time but as you can see it's huge now. It has the most beautiful foliage which would be enough to delight anyone, but then all of a sudden it gets the prettiest purple-blue spikey flowers. The whole plant looks so regal with it's velvety foliage and purple flowers. Lisa didn't know the name of it but I found it on a google search finally. Oh course I can't remember now. I thinks it's Mona Lisa ...wouldn't that be ironic.

Summer

Probably one of the favorite plants for shade...IMPATIENS. This one was done in a strawberry jar~ small one at that. Made a mistake of putting it out too early in the spring when it was still too cold and it looked a little unhappy, but it's been doing great inside the greenhouse since. In the foreground are some variegated bougainvilleas which I absolutely love. They're a great heat tolerate plant that I seem to forget to suggest to customers when they're looking for that kind of thing.

This was a angel wreath that we had by the register that was so gorgeous it was hard to see it go. The great thing about it was that it looked like it came from some great old estate, but it was new made out of fiberglass and very light...much easier to hang. The plants are from a hanging basket for the shade with potato vine and trailing coleus. Can't believe it's still here. Crazy!!!