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Thursday, February 13, 2025

At A Look: The Winter Pots and Packing containers: 2000-2021



2000   To comply with is a considerable run of images from my winter container association archives-the picture assortment and work dates again 21 years. I’m as stunned to see this as you’re. I didn’t suppose there have been this a few years and that a lot history-but right here it’s. I didn’t examine each image from a given yr, and select what I assumed was the perfect. No matter appeared to talk to this second was included. Some preparations look in line with the yr they have been made. Some look forward of their time. Some look nice and others are so regrettably so so. Ha. You resolve what you suppose. I’ve my reminiscences.


2001  Tender    We recycled lifeless Bradford pears from our nursery provider, and rubbed them down with a copper coloured wax. The timber have been ornamented with twine pillows and platinum fluff balls.

2002  This gentle garland was the primary of many who Rob would make over the previous 20 years. I’m positive there are extra to come back.

2002, half 2  Galvanized pipe wound spherical with lights, curly copper willow, and greens augmented with gentle strands and lighted ornaments

2003 Dried and dyed temper moss fitted and glued over urethane topiary types

2004   Prelit glitter and berry branches hover over recent minimize greens and lighted ball ornaments.

2004     Extra of these prelit metallic copper glitter branches.


2005  spherical wooden poles, grapevine spheres and lengths of skinny wooden lath

2005  dried grasses, twigs, fake berry picks and minimize pine

2006   stick stack, berry picks, and recent noble fir over a big huck wreath.

2006  bleached willow twigs, stick stacks, bottle brush snowflakes and gold poly mesh

2007  a primary foray into arranging pure foraged branches

2007 at Detroit Backyard Works    stay juniper topiaries, fan willow and blended minimize greens. We now have by no means been capable of supply fan willow of this measurement and with this diploma of fasciation, once more – it was regionally grown.

2007  modern stoneware pot by Francesco del Re crammed with varied modern sticks and stacks.


2008     pink twig dogwood, pink berry picks, recent silver greenback eucalyptus set into minimize noble fir boughs

2008    yellow twig dogwood and eucalyptus stems and pods

2009     pink twig dogwood, fake pink twig picks, magnolia branches and blended evergreen boughs

2010   magnolia garland, pink twig dogwood and pink berry picks

2011  un-branched pink twig dogwood, magnolia, boxwood, recent minimize winterberry and noble fir

2011 Detroit Backyard Works  gold deco mesh enlivens recent minimize pussy willow, greens, and pine cones

2012      copper curly willow and magnolia branches – and mountain hemlock throughout

2013   Tall pink bud pussy willow, pink preserved eucalyptus and blended greens

2013    pink bud pussy willow, lilac preserved eucalyptus, magnolia and noble fir

2014  flame willow, magnolia branches and blended minimize greens-

2014


2015  lime inexperienced fake berry picks and pale blue grey preserved eucalyptus. The basket planter is Dutch made.


2015   with the Christmas vacation in thoughts


2016   English made metal topiary type with lights, spruce suggestions, and snow


2017       flame willow, magnolia and spruce branches


2017     yellow twig dogwood, yellow fuzz ball picks, white eucalyptus, variegated boxwood in a big corten metal planter field

2018   3′ diameter lighted ring over a mixture of silver and noble fir

2018    a thicket of “midwinter solar” dogwood branches and mountain hemlock

2019   a sparse association of pink bud pussy willow, inexperienced and white fuzz ball picks, gold and white berry picks and magnolia

2019   “midwinter hearth dogwood branches and a light-weight ring

2019     yellow and inexperienced


2020    a winter sculpture product of fan willow, boxwood and noble fir

2020    flame willow and huge scale snowball picks awash in LED cherry lights


2020  layered look with tall fake astilbe picks
2020  wool felt stole and gold grass picks

2020  wicker basket pots


2021  bleached sticks of a number of diameters and heights; white berry picks


2021   the centerpiece:  cream berries lining the inside of a 5′ diameter gentle ring, twigs, picks and magnolia

2021        3′ diameter gentle ring, alder branches, chrome steel spheres on stainless stems, silver plastic grass
2021          inexperienced and white


2021  evergreen branches set vertically

2021  window bins with gentle rings,  fake lambs ear garlands, silver plastic grass, blueberry picks, white flower picks-and beaded stars. Very eager to see what’s going to come subsequent.



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