I drool for cosmos.... watward home for cosmos seed here if anyone has some they want to get rid of! Hint hint!
Containers 2010 - WHose IN! - part 2
Speaking of cosmos....several mags have featured the Chocolate Cosmos....I am soooo putting in a Chocolate Garden next year. I already have several plants mapped out for next year's garden....and convinced Dear Man that he would LOVE to help me put it in. :)
Seriously gorgeous those Chocolate Cosmos!
Took these today.Lots of coleus and Tr.Queen is the greatest.These are coleus planted with perennials. Cant find the tubs coleus album.
http://picasaweb.google.com/jgentle4/GardenColeusAugust6
mixed with polkadots, vinca, dianthus
Boy this would make a fun jigsaw puzzle! Ha!
My containers today
http://picasaweb.google.com/jgentle4/ColeusInPotsAug6
Oooh Ge, your containers are great. How do you do an album?
Hi, everybody, how's about a before/after of just a container? I found this algae stained old plastic planter at an abandoned house, and decided to give it a makeover.
Before:
I used 'plastic primer' spray, then painted it with exterior latex, then stained it with the gold antiquing, and sprayed a protective clear coat over it.
After:
Ky, well aren't you stylin', turquoise is the Pantone color of the year for 2010! All those layers add up to a lovely effect and look good against your iron work.
Thanks! I didn't know that about the 'color of the year'. It's actually my favorite color, and my traditional birthstone (December).
looking great JoAnn!!!...
love the container makeover ... you did a great job... give lessons.. LOL
Thanks! I'm a beginner, but it's really easy. I'm enjoying the pics of everyones plant combos, too.
Ky, that is a lovely urn! GIMME! LOL!
Ky, I collect turquoise, what a lucky birthstone! I have a jewelry business with the work of over 24 artisans as well as my own. I've always loved rocks and gemstones and yesterday a went to a cactus nursery that I hadn't been to in a lon g time and he had ^'x^' mounds of colored glass by the pound. Now I've seen glass up to golf ball size before, but these were softbal size and up. I'm looking all around deciding if I need some. I'll bet one woould be a pound, @ $3,00 a pound I'll have to be thoughtful, I could get carried away here. He had clear turquoise, the color of blue topaz. Wow.
Just FYI, Pantone is an internation group that votes among panels of color palletes, which then help dictate the colors used in everything for a period of time....housewares, dishes, fabrics, paint, so you can co-ordinate.
What colors are you going to fill your urn with?
Pantone has been around for decades.We only THINK we have choices in fashion and cars.
If you watch movies from the 50's you can see why Pantone was a good idea.
ge, that's right. And the colors do morph fluidly from year to year so things blend for quite a time before they clash. I'd say about 6+ years.
Ky, in the old south, some urns were cast iron and VERY stationary. At my late husbands' grandfathers' home in Oxford, Mississippi, there was a pair, with fern of course, that everyone stubbed their toes on. They called them the DURN URNS!
LOL, I put mine where it won't be tripped on. I can imagine those cast iron ones could put a big OUCH on one's toe.
ge, what do you mean "1 click" to post more than one pic?
These are the best of my containers for Aug 13.
http://picasaweb.google.com/jgentle4/BestContainersAug13
JoAnn do you know which this is .... the yellow one with red stem in the back?
http://picasaweb.google.com/jgentle4/BestContainersAug13#5504857347453409634
Yes,It's Lemon Sunsation. I took cuttings last fall and raised about 8 all winter.
I dont plan on doing that again.
wow! ge and one, love your pix and albums...clearly I have to get onto Picasa. After trip, goal.
Nice plants sylguy
it's a nice one JoAnn!!... very pretty spot Sly.... so that's what matching containers look like (I never have any)
Lemon Sunsation is slow to get started but very sturdy and takes seasonal cuttings well.
Is this one, 'cause I didn't get the variety.
I like the way coleus fill in the garden.
http://picasaweb.google.com/jgentle4/ColeusInTheGardenAug23
music to my eyes JoAnn
GordonHawk your roof garden looks wonderful. So inviting and beautiful. Wish I was there right now. I could use a break from my real life just now. Maybe I can put your picture up for wallpaper.
sylguy please please tell me the name of that coleus plant with the huge leaves. I know it is not hardy here near Chicago but I adore big leaves and would like to do something like that anyway. I have one coleus that I accidentaly wintered over - it was just tossed behind the garage when I was "cleaning up" ready for winter. When I took out my pots to pot up for the summer by golly that thing was already growing! I was amazed.
Ohhhh Allison .I am so glad you turned me on to Kingwood Karnival.
it is a good one JoAnn.. Henna is kickin butt this year.. looks like a mini tree
I also like Jungle Love. Its like a bush.
Pretty!
Thanks.
Jungle Love is amazing.
Here it is above the Rhodies and Hostas .The yellow flowers in back are Ligularia
please excuse the weeds and mess... but here are the containers in front
WOAH Allison. That is a beautiful scene. I love the caladiums with it.
thanks... the kongs & giant exhibition coleus did great this year... that spot stay nice and moist for the caladiums... years and years of rody leaves in there
Isnt it great to have nature do the work?
I am considering taking cuttings for 8 coleus to over winter.I have limited the parents to 8 and cuttings from those to not exceede the size of my other large tray.I can keep all in my bedroom. First I will raise thye parents outside for several weeks until the weather is too cold at night.Then they come inside.
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Coleus will do ok indoors! I put mine under lights and they did great! I need to start bringing stuff indoors already... gonna be hard to pick which ones get tossed!