Create Fun Winter Photos with Container Plants Brought in for the Winter

This Begonia planter with small bromeliads and favorite lichens had to be on the back porch during these recent freezing nights. The Athos (3 musketeers) model was built in 1955 by my Uncle Paul, who passed away at 91 several years ago. The little Occupied Japan dog belonged to my Aunt Maye, Uncle Paul's wife, who passed away one year before him at the same age. These items stay in the glass case most of the year.

The Desert Rose below with Stonecrop sedum comes inside too when it's cold. It's been through a lot in the 15 years I've had it, and it has been frozen before and survived. Not this year! It looks like an African fetish doll of some sort, doesn't it?

A friend gave me these two ornaments years ago for Christmas. Look how they tranform the picture above into an undersea scene. A few seashells might be fun to add. This might even be a good creative activity for the kids, too, when they're stuck inside!


O.K.........just one or two more photos. This dragon baby hatching out of an egg is one of my favorite pieces of artwork from an incredibly talented ceramics artist in New Orleans. He (the dragon baby, not the artist -- Ha!) looks great in front of the Purple Oxalis. I may never have thought of taking the photo if it had not been for the Oxalis coming in for the freeze. Adversity can give us amazing photographic opportunities. The plants we bring into our home in the winter create a short-term jungle of photographic opportunity while they're inside. Just have fun!.............and take pictures!

This is another Aunt Maye item. Filled with water, it is now a root starter for the pot of Inky Finger coleus sitting out back. It creates a whole garden feel in itself. Aunt Maye would approve!