Home for the Holidays

A glance at some of our Holiday decorations

I hope everyone had a Happy Holiday

Winter gardens ready

The winter pots have been in full swing here now for quite some time This installation was done extra early, notice the colorful leaves still on the trees

Silver is the color of choice at this home, thank god for spray paint, Yes spray paint

Magnolia leaves bring more natural order along with the collar of Noble fir tips. These arrangements are on the upper terrace of this home and are most visible from the kitchen windows

On to the fountain pots

No one wants to look at a fountain's black empty basin, so we fill it in with more silver, this time with white pine tips, silver Eucalyptus, and pusy willow branches, spray painted silver

The two back pots that were specially designed for this home. They got all the hairiness of curly willow, that has been painted

This home and garden are ready for winter

Fall catch up

As I write this post it's about 35 degrees outside. Winter came early this year... really early. We got snow a week after Halloween, snow on pumpkins, not a good look. So I'm trying to play catch up on my fall post.

In fact this planting will be ripped out in preparation for winter arrangements in just a couple of days.

The fall garden tour "Mums the word"

Mums are a favorite flower for this time of year. Most people I find either love them or hate them.

I have to admit, I have never been a huge fan of them, but that may be changing.

When I think of mum's I always tend to think of the flashy yellow, and the rusty colored ones, or the white one's that fade to some awful color.

And let's not forget that pungent smell.

This fall garden features a lot of mum's as well as a lot of flowering Kales and Cabbages

Mum's do add that much needed pop of color to the garden this time of year,

and the new varieties do come in nicer colors.

I guess I'm OK with mum's in this garden!

Halloween 2018

Even though I only had one group of "Trick or Treater's" this year I will continue to decorate my home for Halloween.

Hope everyone had a good Halloween!!!

This we like.