It really does make all the difference raising them up, and I like the plant post columns because they are so narrow and can dissappear into the plants. Thanks You!
The tiny dwarf grasses in the shanty town are a tiny native grasss I collected in the Pine Flats my family live on. They stay dwarf like that and can be trimmed back with a snip of the scissors every now and then to freshen up.
The little Fall colored ball of leaves is a great miniature plant that stays small and puts up tiny little Snapdragon stalks which look like Hollyhocks in a miniature container garden! Its in fact:
Dwarf Snapdragon, Fairy Snapdragon, Malling Toadflax
(Chaenorhinum origanifolium 'Summer Skies')
I started the seeds in the bowl and started adding the other stuff later. Heres a picture of the plants fresh in Spring. They have reseeded, and I will weed the bowl carefully.
The little plant looking like a firestick is a chandelier plant (Kalanchoe delagoensis) which make great little Saguaro look and can be snipped off to regrow, or let a baby or two stay and develop and then repeat. Its very untimeconsuming once going! Thank you Jo Ann...
The last picture shows the Kalenchoe looking like a Saguaro before it was snipped earlier theis year. Some of the babies on the tip of its leaves are already growing to replace it...
