This blog will be pretty unthemed....I tend to go through old online albums and find pictures to comment on. Most of my photos are garden related, so it will be more of a challenge to find and comment on pics that aren't. Here is one from a two-year-old Webshots album. I got this idea from a magazine I think. The idea was to have available a copy of a picture by a "real artist", then have a child make a copy of it. Then frame the results and hang side by side. I had a copy of a Miro poster (blue background), and had my two grandchildren---- ages 11 and 8 then---- copy the poster. Haley, the 8-year-old, painted hers with a pink background, Kyle, age 11 then, painted a brown background. I'm thinking of trying this idea again if I can get the kids to go along with it......
I had an expanse in the corner of the backyard that needed something in the way of a focal point. I noticed a large arbor set up at Sam's Club back in April and decided that it might fill the bill in that area. I bought it boxed, then came the challenge of screwing it together out on the patio. I dragged it over to the bed and set it upright and started placing container plants and baskets under, around, and on it. The arbor works as a focal point in that corner of the yard and acts as something of a frame that I can arrange plants around. The pots of white impatiens are beginning to go somewhat dormant in the summer heat and not blooming as well, so I might change those out soon for some more heat and sun tolerant plants.....
Why Caladium Cottage? I do like caladiums planted about the house every summer, and I've had great luck with those tubers I've purchased from Sam's Club. $10 for a box of 50. They are planted in April here in Houston, and do well in semi-shade with plenty of water. There are many varieties, but my favorite is called "Carolyn Wharton". I've got them planted in front and back, with a particularly nice stand of them in the front yard circling a big bed of aspidistra, or cast iron plant, as it is sometimes called.......
