We love visiting MO Botanical Garden in St. Louis. During a typical year, we go many times. The spring orchid show, frequent summertime evening picnics with friends, autumn strolls through the fall colors and winter's spectacular Garden Glow with dazzling lights during the Christmas season all make for happy memories. We miss it this year! I have had the opportunity to take so many pleasant pictures of plants and displays over the years and when I snapped this one a few summers ago, I always thought it would be perfect for enlarging as a wall hanging.
Taking advantage of deep discounts at Walgreens for the photo and Michaels for the frame, I decided to use it for part of my late summer mantel. When the patriotic décor came down right after the fourth of July, this went up and will remain in place until it's time for autumn.
I love seeing the Chihuly pieces (which permanently float in the lily pad pool). I searched the house for brightly colored glass to play off them. The large red glass vessel and bright green candlestick are both on loan from my mother. 😉
It took me such a long time to find just the right planter to use. I thought the simple lines of this one looked interesting and would work best.
It only came in this gray color, though, and so I painted it black (as shown below) since I wanted it to match the picture frame. The black specks on the mantel are a result of the plant I knocked over when I took the picture!
I hope your day was great!