September 17, 2012 -- nandina and rose

This may not be the last rose of summer, but it's one of the last red ones on my climber. I've combined it here with a little topknot of a colorful nandina. The container, which you an barely see, is the most interesting part of this, though. It's a piece of rusty metal (looks like part of an old bucket) that had twisted itself into sort of a teepee shape. Looked like it wanted to be a vase, so I positioned a glass jar under it, and it's that jar that is holding water for the rose and the nandina foliage.

I tucked some moss into gaps in ther rusty metal so the glass jar inside wouldn't show.