What's outside of your picture window today?

Well this isn't actually outside my window, but adjacent to the sliding door. I made the table during the summer with a wooden pallet I found on one of my walks. The clock was an old one that stopped working, and I set it at 5pm because sometimes I like to say out loud, "it's 5 o'clock somewhere" even if I cannot imbibe.

@francis007, and all...Francis, I like your palet table! Actually, the wood grain is attractive, seems prettier than most pallets I've seen. You did a fine job making yourself a new vintage table!

I've seen pallets used for planter etc and, were I 15 years younger, I'd make one. Not happening now!

I'm attaching aching pictures of my white ceramic Christmas tree my mother made for me many years ago. I never found the perfect spot for it...now I have and I'm thrilled! I added my little Lladra cresche pieces that never had the right spot...I like them together. Setting this up in my bedroom window, upstairs. put me in bed for more rest since it required I going upstairs a very heavy wrought iron glass top table I wanted up here for plants, so I did it...one tiny step at a time. I like the little scene a d it does look good at night from outside. Glad to share my mom's love...

Enjoy and be blessed!
Elizabeth

Good morning Elizabeth - What a lovely display of "rescues" - when I move to Texas, I have to leave mine behind in the tender care of the young woman next door. She comes weekly to water, trim and take pictures of anything unfamiliar to her.
The flowering plant is either dipladenia or mandevilla - at most garden centers the term is used interchangeably. Both vine, the flowers look the same, but mandevilla tend to have smaller leaves when young and are much more aggressive in sending long tendrils tat wind around everything. Dipladenia are much more polite and can be maintained in quite a bushy form.

I'm trying and experiment this year - when I trimmed the tropical hibiscus to bring them indoors, I dipped the cuttings in rooting hormone and put into pots of starter soil. I brought them to Texas, where we will plant them out in February (because January nights can be a bit too cold for them.)

Another experiment - I saved the seeds at home from all the tall perennials that will grow here - last year I set up gro-lights in the living room - will start the seeds in January & we will plant them out around the fences in the park to replace some of the volunteer trees that were sprouting (they damage the fences as they grow).

When I am not up to my elbows in side dishes for dinner, I will try to get pictures of the blue mistflower that our butterflies love. It survived the first summer thanks to my neighbor, and should be good to grow on its own by next summer. Also a tropical red salvia...

Have a great day - I am so glad you are back on the patio and tending your babies.
Sue

@sueinmn, @johnbishp,@francis007, and all...
Well, my dear friends, Jackso ville, Florida is getting a 2nd year with a hard chill in November!!! Last year caught me and many off guard and I lost several plants I truly loved....as I mentioned last note. We've been enjoying nice, soft rainy days for a couple weeks, but this week tonight will go into the 40s and tomorrow night, Tuesday, into the 30s.!!! That's cold for us...usually we see those ##in January, February...never November!

So. Yesterday I pretty much guarantee I'd be in a bunch more pain all night...yes!...and a repeat tonight. Yesterday, after bringing upstairs my heavy ta le for my tree, I brought upstairs to my BR the succulents I had at the front door. They'd never make it through tbe night, so I brought it upstairs...mandevilla- a tropical flowering vine, 2 varieties of snake plant, a very productive spider plant. It is ready for repotting and is very heavy.
I also, Sue, realized why my Christmas cactus, it is a Christmas one, isn't budding yet. Last year it was full of buds by now. I have growing lights in the den on 24/7, so she never had a chance to enjoy lower light! Well, it's in my BR now, getting long evenings and nights, SO...I'll soon see flowering, hopefully. No more in my BR now. It's full with just enough plants.

Here are pictures...yes, you can laugh at .y antics. Give you permission!

Blessings. Elizabeth

I would take Jacksonville’s hard chill over Rochester’s 13 degrees and sunny in a heartbeat Elizabeth 😁. Love your ceramic Christmas tree. We have a small green one that lights up. Happy Monday!

@francis007, and all...Francis, I like your palet table! Actually, the wood grain is attractive, seems prettier than most pallets I've seen. You did a fine job making yourself a new vintage table!

I've seen pallets used for planter etc and, were I 15 years younger, I'd make one. Not happening now!

I'm attaching aching pictures of my white ceramic Christmas tree my mother made for me many years ago. I never found the perfect spot for it...now I have and I'm thrilled! I added my little Lladra cresche pieces that never had the right spot...I like them together. Setting this up in my bedroom window, upstairs. put me in bed for more rest since it required I going upstairs a very heavy wrought iron glass top table I wanted up here for plants, so I did it...one tiny step at a time. I like the little scene a d it does look good at night from outside. Glad to share my mom's love...

Enjoy and be blessed!
Elizabeth

@johnbishpp, @sueinmn, @ginger, @blackcat and all...
I'm attaching a few pictures of rescued plants. The ones in large plants are fron last years except the one at front door with last years Christnas tree I almost lost...I picked up the basket half price with lovely varieties of snake plants, a spider flowing gobs of babies I'm propagating, a d a lovely hot pink flowering vine...what is it?

See what you think...love the orchid in a moss ball! The big leaf pla t is a Silver Dollar. The tall orchid is denrhodium. The long legged root orchid is a Vanda. These a different flowers than I've had Belmore.

Enjoy.
Blessings, Elizabeth