[dan deutekom]

Now that I work for a municipality I get to have fun with some of my annual planting beds. This is the first bed of the season and I can't wait until it matures and comes into full bloom. It is in front of the animal services department and no one had any idea that I was going to do this. For the past 10 years this bed has just been the same old annual planting.

[4seasons]

Kind of florida like!
Did you do the topiary also?

[VoodooChile]

It doesn't look like we're in Canada anymore!

What did you use for the eye of the rabbit?

Very cool.

[dan deutekom]

Actually the photo dosn't really show what animal it is supposed to be but it is really Dino the Dinosaur. I was kinda bored in the Greenhouse so I made it out of an discarded piece of playground equipment using Alternanthera for the body, Echeveria for the eyes, Foxtail Fern for the horns and agave for spikes on the tail.

I have planted around it using some old Dracaena, Arundo Donax from the previous season that I stripped all of the leaves from the stem so that they would sprout small branches giving a bamboo like appearance, Boston ferns and Lantana as a ground cover and colour.

It was time to bring some South to the Great White North and have a little fun with my plantings