Garden changes on the side of the garage

Today I'm sharing a few changes I made on the north side of our garage... I've definitely been hinting at the *star* of these changes when I've shared photos of what I'd been calling a NoID epiphyllum, but Kris (amazing internet researcher that she is) has identified it as likely being Disocactus ackermannii...

What!? Yep, that's right. New species I'd never even heard of. It's a good thing I can stick with jungle cactus and still be right.

Anyway, here's the north side of the garage circa September 2021. Dish planters and bromeliads creating tons of interest above the sea of green.

Early Oct of 2022, a different view but not much has changed, well except for the dish planters have different contents.

Here's the current situation. I decided to use the bromeliads (see 2021 and 2022 above) elsewhere, and without their height on the far left the tall dish planters looked unbalanced. It was time to do something different.

I also just realized these photos show the Podophyllum peltatum and rodgersia, which haven't gone dormant yet. In the 2021 and 2022 images they're gone for the season.

Switching to phone photos now, so the color takes on a 1970's polaroid vibe, but they showed the detail of the columns much better.

The rusty columns that is...

In the front Pyrrosia lingua 'Kei Kan' (a gift from Pat at Secret Garden Growers) gets pride of place in a chartreuse pot.

Behind that is a gear on column that really wants to hold a tillandsia.

Just as soon as I find the right one. Until then I love how the Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive fern) fronds play off the teeth. 

At the back, well, you know...

Here's my hand for scale. Each of those blooms (I counted 59 buds) measure 7" across!

They're lasting about 3 days, once fully open.

It will be interesting to see if even the tiny ones grow to bloom, or the plant is exhausted and just aborts these.

I'd planned to plant the large jungle cactus directly on a large rusty plough disc, but realized I needed to be able to lift the plant up easily to move it when I sit the sprinkler, so I used the chartreuse dish from another planter which sits on the plough disc.

At the other end of the wall is another pyrrosia planting, this an unnamed species I was given when Ann and I visited behind the scenes at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden last February. 

I planted it in a shallow bowl surrounded by moss, which sits in a rusty wire basket on top of part of a jack-stand. These were all things I was lucky to have on hand, just waiting to be used.

Those leaves (I can't really call them "fronds" even though it's a fern) make me positively giddy.

Phone photo...

Camera photo... 

Change is fun!

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