I dunno why the iPhone didn't work well with the available light in these shots, but we put up some new pull-string shades in the living room this weekend. We replaced the white wooden shutter thingies, for purely aesthetic reasons.
They look like dark but mottled, thin bamboos all tied together. Pretty neat. Though it's a darker overall feel, some light can come through.
And we moved some stuff around to make room for a new plant out back. When we put in all those little plants last week around the clothes-drying pole, we were told at Lowe's that peonies climb - we want a plant to crawl up the pole to the bird's nest - so we planted one right next to the pole. But having looked into it more, that's not true at all. Peonies are bushes!
So we moved the peony over near the garage, which should give it ample space, and we found a real climber. This plant is awesome! Clematis terniflora. We have dubbed her Planty the Plant.
They tell me in the spring we can cut her to the ground, and in the summer she'll be 30 feet tall. I love it! Hyper-aggressive growth. When we picked her up at the store, we had to remove her tenacious tentacles from a crevice into which she had clawed, on the underside of a nearby window sill. And on top of it, she'll be covered in white, fragrant flowers (if all goes well) at harvest time.
That's old Planty to the left of the pole. If you zoom on the pic, you can see we put some guide wires up for her to climb.
The light green guy on the far left is wormwood - soft like a cashmere sweater.
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