Our Ponds 1st Cattails

[Carol Dee]

We have had a potted cattail in our pond for 3 or 4 years. This is the 1st time they actually got tails!

 

[baymule]

LOOKS FANTASTIC!!!!

In my imagination ........

 

[secuono]

That's awesome!
Mine usually get tails the following Fall after splitting them, sometimes the same year. But mine are in the bog.
I use mine for Autumn flower arrangements.
What will you do with yours?

 

[Carol Dee]

So far nothing! they are the 1st. LOL Usually I go to the country and cut some from the ditches for decorating.

 

[Smart Red]

LOOKS FANTASTIC!!!!

In my imagination ........

@baymule, I am so happy that you enjoyed Carol's new cattails picture.

See the maple leaves drooping over the top of the photo? Light and lacy and lovely, right?
Then I'll bet you enjoyed the corner, dog-earred fencing in natural weathered shades in the background with grape leaves smothering the top of the fence.

I'm sure your eyes spotted the purple cone flowers centered in the lower third of the photo right away. Such a bright burst of color in the otherwise green and brown shot. Not more than a dozen flowers, but they sure do stand out in front of the fence yet in the background of plants, don't they, Bay?

There, closer to the front and on either side of the cone flowers, are two spring flowering plants no longer in bloom. The one on the left -- doesn't that look a bit like Lady's Mantle? While the one on the right is harder to identify. What would you call that plant? I am not sure. Perhaps Carol can tell us.

Finally, in the foreground of the shot -- running from the bottom to the top of the picture are the many thin, long leaves of the cattail plant with three perfect "blooms" sitting like corndogs-on-a-stick, so evenly spaced in the center they looked almost staged. A perfect example of Carol's excellent eye with a camera. You know we wouldn't have expected anything less.

Her bit of playfulness shows in the line of four mushroom chimes hanging behind the three cattails. These muted-colored chimes were certainly a touch of the unexpected to me. See how perfectly they seem be spaced so well behind the cattail blooms? Great design factor isn't it?

Yup, Bay, it is always a treat to study one of Carol's great camera shots. Tell us now that you have a better view of the photo, what was your favorite part of the scenario?

 

[Carol Dee]

Aww @Smart Red thanks for the descriptive narrative for Bay. you made my photo sound so pretty! The plants in front of the fence lower right are WEEDS, weeds, weeds! LOL the ones to the lower left are Autumn Joy Sedum.

 

[Smart Red]

Ah, yes! Autumn Joy that are just beginning to bud out rather than lady's mantle past its bloom time. I can see that now.

The plants in front of the fence -- lower right -- can't be weeds! Weeds I would have recognized.I see so many of those around here as well.

Carol, I didn't do justice to the photo. That is one picture I could see -- sold in limited numbers -- at an art gallery. It would look so beautiful framed and hanging on the wall.

 

[Carol Dee]

Ah, yes! Autumn Joy that are just beginning to bud out rather than lady's mantle past its bloom time. I can see that now.

The plants in front of the fence -- lower right -- can't be weeds! Weeds I would have recognized.I see so many of those around here as well.

Carol, I didn't do justice to the photo. That is one picture I could see -- sold in limited numbers -- at an art gallery. It would look so beautiful framed and hanging on the wall.

Oh Thank you, that is a great compliment.

 

[Nyboy]

Red you are being sooo Bad LOL

 

[Nyboy]

Funny how every gardener different. Carol over joyed with cattails, I curse them in my garden. Anyone want some indestructible cattails let me know.