Showing posts with label plants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plants. Show all posts

18 August 2015

Displaying Air Plants

Several weekends ago, we went to the Peddlers' Faire in Benicia and, among other things, bought a few air plants. One of them is mounted in a tiny sea urchin, the others are loose.
How to display them? I asked among my FB friends, googled, looked on Pinterest and found this:
this tutorial.
Trying to find an old frame proved to be impossible (we hit several antique stores), so what else would work?
I wanted old looking, weathered and it finally came to me: fence slats.
One of our fences, the one enclosing the old dog run, will be going. No more outdoor dogs, so no more need for a dog run.
So, L unscrewed two of the slats and set to work and this is what he came up with:


I think I need more plants!


18 December 2012

Brrrrrr ..............

According to the weather report this morning, it never got cold enough here to freeze. I beg to differ. It's after 10 am and this is the sheet of ice I pulled off the old water bowls we used to use for the big dogs.
Looks pretty, doesn't it? We're supposed to have a hard frost tonight. Need to get all those pots up close to the house to protect them. That won't be easy, they are very heavy from all the rain we've had lately. But I try hard every year to baby my fuchsias through the winter and, so far, so good.