I've owned this looped piece of wire for years. I always kind of saw it covered with plants, but hadn't ever gotten around to actually doing anything about it. Mid-September—about the time I needed to be thinking about leaving town for the Philly Fling—I decided it was finally going to happen.
Further evidence that I'd been scheming on this for awhile, last April I signed up for an online class from Atelir TE on living wreath making.
I ended up going a slightly different route with what I made, but still learned a lot from the class.
Here I've worked my ingredients (Pyrrosia linqua, a NOID cryptanthus, a pair of Fascicularia pitcairniifolia divisions, and soon to be added, bits of an orchid—Bulbophyllum sp. mini rambling laxiflorum type—that used to be mounted on a piece of wood) into the wire shape along with some soil and moss.
I also had this piece of driftwood handy in case I felt more stability was needed at the base.
Turns out it was.
The finished product...
It makes me very happy.
The backside is mostly moss but with time I think the pyrrosia will start to grow out that way, and hopefully the orchid will too—you can see a few bits of it under the fascicularia.
More orchid bits above the driftwood.
I was hoping to get an early morning sunny shot and lucked out. This hanging is still outside as I write this post on Saturday, the 21st Oct—however it will need to come in soon as our nights are cooling to the low 30's by the end of the week.
The Great Migration kicked off back on October 3rd, when I paused to take this shot of my two different variegated Agave victoriae-reginae babies in their pick-axe planters.
The first prisoners to make their way indoors...
Cactus rounds on top of cactus rounds—Echinocereus grusonii.
Agave schidigera ‘Royal Flush’
So many plants! (and I'd only just begun...)
Here's what it looks like now. Part A...
And Part B...
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