The Fling bench, at home in my garden

In my Fling haul post I wrote that I hoped to soon share a photo of the metal bench I purchased at VanLierop Garden Market at home, in my garden. Well, here we go, it's found a spot tucked into the corner of the back garden...

I think it looks quite at home there.

You might also remember that I was inspired by Dan Hinkley's grouping of Pseudopanax crassifolius in tall rolled-lip terracotta pots and brought home a few of his plant offerings. Well, those are part of the new vignette as well...

For those of you who were instantly concerned about the metal making rust spots on the pavers, worry not! I found rubber feet that fit perfectly and keep the metal from making contact with the pavers. I just hadn't put them in place yet when I took the rest of these photos.

Back to the plants! The tallest of the pseudopanax is actually a P. ferox, it's on the far left. 

It's also my oldest, having been part of my garden since 2010! It had never been repotted in those 14 years so I was kind of curious just how rootbound it would be when I moved it to it's new terracotta pot. Oddly, it wasn't. It had a nice bunch of healthy roots but the pot still had room for more. Weird.

The bench placement was in part to give context to this slightly sad (but alive!) P. ferox planted in the ground behind the new bench. If you've been reading awhile you've probably followed the "will it live or won't it?" saga after the winter storm.

It's still alive, I can say that for it.

Back to the bench...

The carniverous plants have been in the corner all summer, they're doing great there so didn't want to move them, just worked them into the new display.

Oh, ya, there are aeonium too...

Nepenthes alata

NoID nepenthes from Rare Plant Research.

The P. crassifolius I bought at the Cistus summer extravaganza is here too...

This one from Windcliff (Dan Hinkley).

Hohenbergia ‘Chocolate Tiger’ from Little Prince of Oregon.

My small Darlingtonia californica at it's base.

And more Windcliff plants...

The other tall pseudopanax was a gift from Daniel Sparler back in 2022, it was just a tiny thing back then, maybe 6" tall. 

It's got great markings (that I once feared was some sort of damage or disease, but now I know better).

There's also a cryptanthus that I picked up from Evan at our last blogger's plant swap.

That's a lot of cool plants for one bench, luckily it's pretty strong.

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