Project remake: fern dish planters...

Last summer I added a few more of my "dish planters" to the garden. These two were planted up with purple sweet potato vine (Ipomoea batatas 'Blackie') which never really looked as good as I'd hoped (please pardon the lens flare/sun spots...which I actually kind of love)...

This year I decided to plant 'em up with a couple of the same plants that are growing beneath them. Repetition ya know...

Because I do love me some painted ferns (Athyrium niponicum var. pictum)...

Especially when combined with the soft texture of Adiantum venustum.

And because more is always better I added a few bits of Impatiens omeiana, what was left after the garden critters (slugs? root weevils? cutworm?) had their way with them (it's a spring tradition).

I'm hoping maybe the Impatiens will do better out of the ground, up in the sky? At the end of a long, slippery, metal pole...

Pretty please garden gods?

Because I'd piled the soil (and thus the gravel top dressing) so high I was a little worried the hard rain we had last week would wash it out. Nope! It all stayed in place.

Here's to seeing these fill in and become lush with that beautiful fern texture...

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