Festivus

We are having some friends over tomorrow to celebrate this coniferous holiday and my garden is looking exhausted. I moved one pot here another there to hide bare spots, purchased eight small pots of snapdragons, yellow and a coral red and 2 other larger plants with very pretty blue jets of flowers (blue Angelface?) , they look like pretty weeds. Re-potted the rubber plant into one of the black plastic barrel haves that I paid 19$ for at HD. Tucked it in with some very rich, black soil. The thick dark (almost black) leaves of the rubber plant provide a nice contrast to the sprays of fern and bromeliad and the rather bare bougainvillea.

Keep a rubber in your pocket, the thick, glossy, almost black leaves offer a tropical counterpoint to the lighter, feathery ferns and bamboo.