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Ha! My recent peruse of a gardening forum had a post in it that said - the only thing that grows under pines are pines.
Well, we did ok with it:
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I don't know how long that will last - I replenished the circle on Friday - just threw in everything I could lay hands on - within reason, of course. I didn't throw the dandelion weeds in there - ha ha!
What you're seeing in the orange planter there is a bottle with some water - that's got some cut stems in it - bits of goldenrod, and some wild stuff with little white flowers - fleabane, or somethin' or other, I guess.
And that fern? Heh! Heh! I'm curious to see if it will actually root - doubt it, but I put it there anyway. Somebody threw some scrap flowers out - a bouquet from a florist and Jeff saved the baby's breath and the fern.
There's also a couple of sumac fronds in there - just for decoration.
To the left of that orange pot is what I think is a caladium - I've had them before and that's what they look like when they get started. It's been moved around since the spring - from pot to ground, from ground to pot, etc. Now it's back in a pot and I'll probably give it house soil and put it somewhere in the apartment or the office (where Skitter isn't going to interfere with it).
Moving farther left, you can see the dusty miller - we have a lot of that. I'm hoping I can just leave them in the circle and they'll come up in spring. I understand they will come out for a second season.
To the right of that orange pot you can see some more fake fern (sumac frond) and the whisps of the blue gentian.
I'll be moving that in spring to a sunnier spot. Most likely I'll put it in the front part of the circle.
And farther on you can see the pink watering can. Also there's a brown plastic liqueur bottle (don't know what was in it - picked it from the garbage). I cut off the tops and put the nozzles upside down so they can collect water. There's some more loose stuff in there - I forget what.
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And lastly, here's a front shot of the thing - as you can see, I've added some of my coleus from the table garden (there's so much of it and I know I'm not going to be putting it on the window inside the house or office).
Thanks - I just felt like showing off a bit - hee hee!
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Very nice, Carly! Do you have a picture of the whole tree with plantings beneath? We have a few pines that need to be pruned up, and I'd like to show my husband how it might look.
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I'll take a shot of the whole tree tomorrow - I do have many of that particular austrian, but not with all those plants in it.
I started with dusty miller, a few petunias and some greenies. Not everything held at first - I had to work at it.
But dusty miller's. They love the acidic soil and also the squirrels seem to stay away from them.
Those plants I put it on Friday aren't the kind that would hold over the winter anyway - coleus, etc. I will, however, leave them there and enjoy them as long as I can.
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