The patio...and plants!

A few weeks ago my Shug and I went to Wal-Mart. 

Bad idea to drop me off by the plants.  Those of you who know me, know that I am probably the only person that has walked out of Wal-Mart with nothing purchased, several times!  But this time, they had these beautiful, colorful, succulents.

And I knew winter was coming, and I would need color!

(I should have bought a bunch of them!)

But I only bought one.  The color is fading a bit.  I have to wonder if they added coloring somehow...like they do to those poor little Easter chicks in the springtime.

After sitting on the windowsill for a few weeks, I decided maybe it needed a bigger pot.

 This was the pot it came in.

 Then I went to the grocery store and THIS succulent, which is pretty big was only $3.49!  It even has a couple of babies in the pot!

 This summer I worked really hard to make our patio area look nice.   It's the first time I've had the time to mess with it since we moved upstairs.

 I put up the little white fencing.

 My Shug bought me this planter for the patio as a love gift!  It filled out really nice by June/July.

 These pots were birthday gifts from my parents a couple of years ago.

 A lot of the plants in these pictures were in their infancy stage.

 I used this dead tree to plant annual vining seeds that grew up the tree.  And in the long planters were elephant ear bulbs, that did not do well (too shallow I think) and sweet potato vine, that did really well.

I think we used the patio one time this summer.  It was way too hot outside and the mosquitoes were ruthless.  When we would step outside they would start swarming us!

 Today started out around 39F!  Brrrrr....All of those pretty outside plants have been brought inside for the winter.

 So this one room in the basement is full of plants.  It's kind of fun, I think!

 Tonight....it's going to be 42degrees outside....and we're using the patio (sigh)

Cindy