My flower boxes at the back of the house have done really well this summer. I don't have much sun in that spot ... lots of big shade trees ... so I planted shade loving coleus and they have grown so big that I've clipped them a couple times and started new plants! My aunt used to do that and put them in quart jars in water and tuck them away in a window in a little potting shed. She would leave them there all winter and have new plants in the spring!
When Miss Phoebe was just a toddler, I started putting little figurines in these planters. One year I used a bunch of ceramic chickens, another year I had ceramic fish from the dollar store. This is the second year I've put these thrift shop figurines in the boxes. See Pinkie and Blue Boy?
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