Here are the new barrels, North and South are New Bowl Lotus.
The middle barrel will be mini hardy water lilys.
This is one of the two backup/parking areas in our driveway.
The purpose of the middle barrel is to keep people from snapping off one of the elevated inground sprinkler heads in that garden. It gets snapped off at least once a season by people parking there. In fact it was snapped off again last week, waiting to be repaired again.
Closeup of North Barrel...pretty ugly!
Closeup of South Barrel...uglier!!!
And another lotus I got from John Johns...in the back yard near the pondsai.
Did I mention my new patio set?
Some lithodora I potted up today, found at HD when we were buying the little teflon feet for the patio set.
And I trimmed a pretty big branch off the Japanese Maple by the Pondsai today, couldn't bear to toss it in the composter, so I made it my dining room centerpiece. Used some leftover lotus potting gravel in the vase for stability.