June 3, 2012 -- beet and coleus

Went to the Charlottesville Farmer's Market yesterday and came home with lots of fun things, including some beautiful beets and a flat of mixed-color coleus plants. The latter were leggy, so I pinched their top growth out. Those tips were too pretty to throw away (I actually still have them all in water, where they may root), but here are a few of them, which I put in a little green jug. To the left is one of the beets I bought. Kept trying to figure out a way to put it in the jug with the coleus, because their colors are really pretty together, but nothing I tried made the beet look as pretty as it was. So here it is positioned upside down on its trimmed stems.