Friday, 23 July 2010
Frenchtown Inn Planters
Summer planters. By now they are brimming over with geraniums, trailing veils of petunias and fancy leaved sweet potatoes, fancy coleus, and more. Provided they have been supplied with adequate water in these dry summer weeks the heat has coaxed them into lush growth. But perhaps we're in the mood for something different.
How about this -
The Frenchtown Inn, on Bridge Street just before the bridge over the Delaware River into Pennsylvania.
This summer its streetside planters are filled with a diversity of succulents, varied in color and leaf shape.
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Smooth and spiky saw-toothed edges, gray-green and silver gray, fat orange jelly bean leaves.
Silver gray to match the rounded finials, stacked white edged penny-like leaves
Purple-black leaves of Aeonium arboreum var atropurpureum 'Schwartzkopf'
I think these plants are in separate pots plunged in gravel, the planters then
appear to be mulched with gravel for an attractive, uniform appearance.
Two urns by the front entry continue the theme , each planted with a spiky agave.
Keep in mind that these are not winter hardy in New Jersey. They'll require shelter
before winter arrives. No matter, they add panache to these summer planters by the river.